This course introduces the fundamentals of Converged Plantwide Ethernet Industrial Networks (CPwE). Main topics focus on the architecture, structure, functions, components, protocols, and models of the CPwE Network.
Through the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) layered model, students will examine the nature and roles of protocols and services from the process control levels to the process support levels within an industrial network.
The principles of real time sensing, and control/ response for employee safety as well as process automation will be investigated. High availability through routing, switching and connection redundancy and security will be integrated into the industrial network.