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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inertia

Automation; Industrial automation

A measure of a body’s resistance to changes in velocity, whether the body is at rest or moving at a constant velocity. The velocity can be either linear or rotational. The moment ...

proportional, integral, derivative control (PID)

Automation; Industrial automation

An intelligent I/O module or program instruction providing automatic closed-loop operation of process control loops. For each loop, this module or instruction can perform ...

proportional band

Automation; Industrial automation

The range of values of the controlled variable (such as temperature or shaft rotation) that corresponds to full operating range of the final control element (such as a valve or ...

intelligent I/O module

Automation; Industrial automation

1) An I/O module that provides some on-board processing of input values to control some output values without going through the data table for control by the ladder logic. An ...

report generation

Automation; Industrial automation

The printing or displaying of user-formatted application data by means of a data terminal. Report generation can be initiated by means of either a user program or a data terminal ...

data communication equipment (DCE)

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Equipment that provides the functions required to establish, maintain, or terminate a connection. 2) The signal conversion and coding required for communication between data ...