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Wireless Design Considerations for Industrial Applications Application Manual

July 18, 2014

Wireless installations in industrial settings have different challenges and requirements than those found in the typical office environment. A new application guide jointly developed by Rockwell Automation and Cisco is one document to help you better understand what some of those challenges are and how to overcome them.

As part of the regular communications I receive from Rockwell Automation, I got a note about their recent RSTechED 2014 Event which when I followed the links led to a “Good Wireless Design” article by Putman’s Jim Montague one of the on-site reporters that finally led to the joint Cisco/Rockwell application manual “Wireless Design Considerations for Industrial Applications.” The application manual starts with a review of wireless technology, then discusses protocols with detail on wireless and Ethernet/IP (the ODVA family of industrial communications ‘languages’) and then pulls all this theory together with a look at WLAN design practices.

For those interested, in adding this document to your library, the 97 page document is available at http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/td/enet-td004_-en-e.pdf