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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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module (software)
Automation; Industrial automation
A collection of routines and data structures that performs a particular task or implements a particular abstract data type.
tag name (software)
Automation; Industrial automation
A symbolic name used in a tag to identify a specific entity within a complete set of related entities. For example, an I/O definition file may contain a tag (definition) for each ...
command-reply pair
Automation; Industrial automation
The combination of messages normally occurring on a communication network; the first message is a command for work to be done, the second message is a reply (from the station ...
producer/consumer model
Automation; Industrial automation
A communication model in which data is identified by its content rather than by its source or destination. Devices that need the data (consumers) recognize the data they need and ...
distributed processing system
Automation; Industrial automation
A system containing multiple hardware units located at different physical locations; individual hardware units do stand-alone processing, but can also be interconnected to share ...
high level data-link control (HDLC)
Automation; Industrial automation
A communication protocol sanctioned by the International Standards Organization (ISO) that defines procedures for the data link and physical protocol layers.
