Industrial Ethernet Networking with EtherNet/IP Installer + Troubleshooting & Maintenance

This combined 2-day course is ideal for anyone working with industrial networking with EtherNet/IP at a technical level, including designers, commissioning engineers, maintenance technicians, and installers. It provides a comprehensive foundation in both the essential principles of industrial networking with EtherNet/IP and the practical skills needed to troubleshoot and maintain EtherNet/IP networks.

What will I learn on the course?

• Basic EtherNet/IP scanner/adapter network technology, CIP errors, and addressing network configuration and start-up
• Interference pickup (EMC), cable routing and earthing considerations, earth potential problems and their avoidance
• Causes, effects, and avoidance of transmission-line reflections and the importance of correct line termination
• Network and segment size and layout limitations and the effect of transmission rate
• Common wiring and layout pitfalls, modern cable and connector systems
• Considerations for network maintenance and commissioning
• Correct use of layer 2 Ethernet switches, copper segments, and fiber-optic segments
• Wiring and installation testing, and the use of cabling test tools
• Network configuration and the use of network diagnostic tools
• The use of Wireshark traffic analyzers / monitoring tools to audit A Network
• The practical use of a managed Ethernet switches to control and analyze traffic