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Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation

Volume III Control Intelligence and Communication (Field and Network)

  • 1st Edition - July 31, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Swapan Basu
  • Language: English

Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation: Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details is an expansive four volume collection reviewing… Read more

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Description

Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation: Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details is an expansive four volume collection reviewing every major aspect of the intelligent automation and digital transformation of power, process, and manufacturing plants, including updates on specific control and automation systems pertinent to various power process plants through manufacturing and factory automation systems. Chapters review new and emergent control intelligence types, including those made possible by artificial intelligence, neural networks, remote control, and robotics.

Control system networking and interrelated communication technologies within, and external to, the network are comprehensively addressed. The volume also discusses network usage and system integration through field bus as well as at network levels.

Key features

  • Introduces the foundations of control systems, networking, and industrial data communications for power, process, and manufacturing in plant automation
  • Reviews core functions, design details, and optimized configurations of plant digital control systems
  • Addresses advanced process control for digital control systems that is inclusive of software implementations
  • Provides guidance on installation commissioning of control systems in working plants

Readership

Early career engineers dealing with plant automation, networking, system integration and digitization projects in the power, process or manufacturing industries, Plant managers, Researchers in electrical engineering, process engineering and mechanical engineering, instrumentation, and controls

Table of contents

1. Discussions on process and control intelligence

2. Adaptive gain, autotuning, and model-based control

3. Expert systems and fuzzy logic in control

4. Neural network artificial intelligence and future trends

5. Process intelligence and robotics

6. Industrial data communication

7. Fundamentals of fieldbus systems

8. Various protocols and fieldbus

9. Miscellaneous communication protocols and issues

10. Wireless communication

11. Utility protocols and smart grid communication

12. Discussions on communication and networking issues

13. Fundamentals of Industrial Networking

14. Networking Software and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

15. Networking: OPC, Integration, and Migration Issues

16. Discussions on Ethernet Networking

17. Industrial Ethernet: EtherCAT, Ethernet I/P, and PROFINET

18. Control Area Network Bus and Common Industrial Protocol Networks: ControlNet and DeviceNet

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 4, 2026
  • Language: English

About the author

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Swapan Basu

Swapan Basu is the founding member and retired Chief Executive of Systems & Controls Kolkata India. Basu is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE- USA) and Instrumentation and measurement society and also Senior member of International society of Automation (ISA USA). He brings over 45 years of international professional engineering experience in instrumentation and controls systems for subcritical, super critical thermal power plants Off shore installations and other process plants. Since 1979, he has been leading teams of engineers in India, Jordan, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, and USA
Affiliations and expertise
Founder and Chief Executive, Systems and Controls, Kolkata, India