Industrial Automatic Control Systems and Controllers Annotation << Back APCS Designing Effi ciency-Increasing Method by Industrial Ethernet Network Confi guration Optimization M.V. Gusev, V.A. Holopov In this article discussed APCS designing effi ciency-increasing method by industrial Ethernet network confi guration optimization. Provided industrial network designing stages description and related algorithmic and mathematic models. This models show dependencies between industrial network metrics and factors influencing them. Also it provides ability to create cost function but due to huge amount of variants we can’t use brut force method and in this article discussed approach based on simulated annealing. Statistic says that it is one of most effective methods to resolve such kind of tasks. After describing cost function minimization discussed advantages of developed method. Keywords: automatization of production; industrial network; automated control system; mathematic model; algorithmic model; simulated annealing method; cost function; combinatorial optimization. Contacts: E-mail: holopov@gmail.com Pp. 12-18.