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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duplicate I/O addressing

Automation; Industrial automation

A method of expanding the number of I/O by assigning the same location address to 2 different I/O modules.

ControlView™ software

Automation; Industrial automation

A modular set of Allen-Bradley software products that in one industrial information package integrates data acquisition, supervisory control, and information management.

snap shot

Automation; Industrial automation

A dump or list of pertinent variables and data structures gathered over a short time to be considered frozen; nothing changes during the dump.

internet

Automation; Industrial automation

Abbreviation for internetwork.

sensing range

Automation; Industrial automation

The maximum recommended distance between a sensor and object (standard target) at which the manufacturer guarantees all published operating characteristics.