Yokogawa vnet

Lots of things can cause a comm card failure, nothing specific to Yokogawa or its protocol/network

Electrical
It only takes one transistor of the hundreds of thousands/millions to fail and the logic or memory is bad.
Non-Volatile memory can fail after X thousands of write cycles

It only takes one capacitor to lose its capacitance and noise on the power bus can corrupt a bit or two or many.

It only takes a little bit of corrosion on a connector pin/spring contact/edge component to cause lack of connection.

An ROHS solder whisker can cause a short to another trace/component.

One cold solder joint can flex open/closed/open/closed.

Environmental
Heat kills electrical components. Dirty fan filters cause over heating. Missing sunshields cause overheating. Accumulated dirt prevents cooling action.

Dissolved or suspended dirt and minerals in water will precipitate and leave 'leakage' paths that corrupt logic or the comm signal. (water in junction boxes)

Environmental electrical
Electrical surges on the signal lines can cause driver failures. Close lightning strikes, faulty earth grounds on large equipment.

I'm others can list additional failure causes.
 
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