Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gotzhein is Head of the Chair for Networked Systems at the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

1. Introduction.- 2. Tick and Time Synchronization.- 3. Global Time Slotting.- 4. Automatic Toplogy Detection.- 5. Medium Access Schemes.- 6. Deterministic Arbitration.- 7. Duty Cycling.- 8. Quality-of-Service Multicast Routing with Mobility Support. 9. Network Clustering.- 10. Middleware for Networked Production and Control Systems.- 11. Implementation Aspects of ProNet 4.0.- 12. ProNet 4.0 Case Studies.- 13. Conclusions and Future Research.