Industrial communications systems are being installed throughout the plant today from connecting simple instruments to programmable logic controllers to PCs throughout the business part of the enterprise. The communications system on the plant underpins the entire operation. It is critical that there should be the knowledge and tools to quickly identify and fix problems as they occur, to ensure that there is a secure and reliable system. This course is intended to make students Design industrial networks, and Install and troubleshoot the industrial networks. Students will be required to describe the various protocols used in industrial data networks compare and contrast the specialized protocols with the standard protocols analyse the special needs of the industrial data network to withstand the environment and real-time response requirements and evaluate the given situation, functional and non-functional requirements and produce a prototype network in a suitable simulator and measure its performance.