The Three Big Mistakes Control Engineers Make

There’s a lot of things that can go wrong when designing a new EtherNet/IP control network. In this video I showed you three things that a lot of control engineers get wrong. Remember just because you put an Logix PLC on an Ethernet network with a bunch of devices that passed conformance testing, you aren’t going to get a properly engineered EtherNet/IP control network that is effective and reliable. It takes more than that.
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[@QueLastima]

I think these videos are a bit superficial, but that makes sense because they are introductory.
And I admire anyone who uses ‘architect’ as a verb.

[@QueLastima]

Are your switches virtual or physical? Or it doesn’t matter?

[@jivancich]

Cool