Industrial Network Platform for Monitoring and Control of Automated Manufacturing Systems

With increasing of industrial demand, concerning flexibility of automated manufacturing systems control, and also with needs of remote control of those systems, the know-how about industrial communication networks is crucial. In this paper it is presented a representative physical platform of industrial communication networks to test and verify the performance of different configurations. Some possible solutions are presented and tested under in the context of the WALC – Web-Assisted Laboratory for Control Engineering,research project.