Control Network Audits
Comprehensive industrial network audits to ensure your control systems are reliable, secure, and compliant through diagnostics, performance analysis, and standards-based verification across PROFIBUS, PROFINET, Modbus, Ethernet/IP, and more.
Protecting Your Industrial Network from Downtime
Control network audits are critical for maintaining uptime, improving safety, and ensuring your plant infrastructure operates at peak performance. Whether you are troubleshooting long-standing issues, validating a recent installation, or preparing for system upgrades, we provide comprehensive audit services to identify risks, verify system integrity, and optimise network performance.
Network Assessment and Health Audit
Full diagnostic evaluation to uncover underlying issues, analyse communication reliability, and assess protocol-specific performance. Delivered with a detailed audit report and practical recommendations for improvement.
Standards-Based Compliance Verification
Validation of control networks against international standards such as IEC 61158, IEC 61784, and vendor-specific guidelines, ensuring long-term stability, reliability, and safety of your industrial automation systems.
Physical Layer and Electrical Noise Analysis
Use of specialised tools to detect signal degradation, impedance mismatches, grounding faults, and electrical noise; often the root cause of intermittent or hard-to-diagnose communication failures.
Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
In-depth analysis of communication behaviour across supported protocols to isolate faulty devices, overloaded segments, address conflicts, and timing issues affecting real-time data exchange.
Internal Audits – Build In-House Capability
Gain the knowledge and tools to perform your own audits. We guide you through the process of conducting assessments, helping your team identify risks, evaluate system health, and maintain communication reliability confidently.
External Audits – Independent Expert Validation
We conduct comprehensive network audits with expert insights, uncovering hidden issues and ensuring compliance, stability, security, resilience, scalability, and optimal performance across your infrastructure.
Delivering Network Insight and Action
From pinpointing silent failures to verifying full communication compliance, our control network audits give you the insights you need to act confidently. We identify both physical and logical network faults, validate configuration settings, and provide diagrams, recommendations, and risk assessments that help prevent unexpected failures.
Deep Network Understanding with Expert Reports
Clear, actionable audit documentation with professional insights into your network’s current state, faults found, and exact steps to improve reliability and performance.
Future-Proofed Infrastructure with Less Downtime
By addressing both current problems and long-term design limitations, our audits help you move toward a more maintainable, scalable, and resilient communication infrastructure.
Improved Network Visibility for Smarter Decisions
Learn about network behaviour and performance trends, empowering better planning, optimisation, and informed decision-making for future upgrades and expansions.
Networks Supported
Benefits
Access to engineers with extensive knowledge and real-world experience on various industrial networks.
Ensure your network meets international standards and vendor-specific guidelines, reducing operational risks.
Faster identification of root causes reduces downtime, minimises production losses, and speeds up recovery.
Spot potential points of failure before they become critical, allowing for preventive maintenance.
Highlights inefficiencies and bottlenecks resulting in better network reliability and system responsiveness.
Detailed reports with easy-to-understand diagrams, issue summaries, and tips to boost network longevity.
Case Studies
Leveraging the Anybus ProfiHub B5+R to reduce common network faults and build a robust, high-availability PROFIBUS DP network
A large platinum mine in South Africa experienced a complete PROFIBUS network failure within one of its main Motor Control Centres (MCCs). In this case study, IDX offered a turnkey solution, from initial diagnostics, hardware procurement, network segmentation, B5+R installations, pre-installation…
Get the Confidence You Need in Your Control Network
Request a control network audit today to make sure your system is operating safely, efficiently, and as intended. Our experienced engineers are ready to help.