Automation

Automation

A technique, method or system of operating a process by highly automatic means, in order to reduce human intervention and increase speed and efficiency.

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Automation; Industrial automation

A grouping or a number of bits in a sequence that is treated as a unit.

vertical redundancy check (VRC)

Automation; Industrial automation

An error-checking method that adds a check or parity bit to each character in a message so the number of 1 bits, including the parity bit, in each character is odd (odd parity) or ...

data segment

Automation; Industrial automation

The portion of memory or auxiliary storage that contains the data needed by a program.

saturation

Automation; Industrial automation

1) An operational state in which a communication module is sending and/or receiving at maximum capacity. When the module receives more messages than it can process, it inhibits ...

process n (software)

Automation; Industrial automation

A program or part of a program; a coherent sequence of steps undertaken by a program (e.g., a data transfer operation).

error (deviation)

Automation; Industrial automation

In any control loop, the difference between the set-point signal and the feedback signal. An error is necessary before a correction can be made in the controlled system. In a ...

parallel output addressing

Automation; Industrial automation

Two output modules having the same address. Each output on the one module is controlled by the same output image table bit as the corresponding (parallel) output on the other ...