Zurawski (president and CEO of the California-based ISA Corp., "a company involved in providing solutions for industrial and societal automation") presents 42 tutorials, surveys, and technology overviews that are together intended to provide a comprehensive reference to current and emerging industrial communication technology and systems. After presentation of the basics of data communication and IP networks, papers are grouped into sections dealing with technologies field area and control networks; Ethernet and wireless network technologies; linking the factory floor with the Internet and wireless fieldbuses; security and safety technologies in industrial networks; and such applications as automotive communication, building automation, manufacturing message specification in industrial automation, motion control, train communication networks, and data communication in electrical substations.