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.

1Categories 8531Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Automation

Become a Contributors

Automation > Industrial automation

binary coded decimal (BCD)

Automation; Industrial automation

A numbering system used to express individual decimal digits (0 thru 9) in 4-bit binary notation.

keying

Automation; Industrial automation

Devices that allow only selected pairs of mating connectors to be plugged into each other.

sigma-delta

Automation; Industrial automation

The type of architecture used in an A/D converter that combines oversampling, noise-shaping, digital filtering, and decimation. The analog input signal is continuously sampled at ...

logical read

Automation; Industrial automation

1)To read from memory based on a logical address. 2) See physical read

step function

Automation; Industrial automation

A signal that has a zero value before a certain instant of time and a constant nonzero value immediately after that instant.

fence codes

Automation; Industrial automation

Special program instructions that control and delimit specific program areas such as fault zones.

incremental position

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A position expressed in reference to the current position. Usually expressed in reference to a move that is an increment from the current position. 2) Contrasted with absolute ...