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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semaphore

Automation; Industrial automation

In programming, a signal that is used to govern access to shared system resources. A semaphore is a flag variable — an indicator — that helps maintain order among processes that ...

noise

Automation; Industrial automation

Unwanted disturbances imposed upon a signal that tend to obscure its data content.

toggle switch

Automation; Industrial automation

A lever-action 2-position switch that snaps into either position.

analog output module

Automation; Industrial automation

An I/O module that contains circuits that output an analog dc signal proportional to a digital value transferred to the module from the processor. By implication, these analog ...

quantization

Automation; Industrial automation

The process of breaking up a continuous variable into discrete quanta or parts.

update time

Automation; Industrial automation

1) For analog inputs, the time between updates to the memory in the analog module of the digital value representing the analog input signal. 2) For analog outputs, the time from ...

build

Automation; Industrial automation

A programming process that takes a user keyboard command (source code) and converts it into hexadecimal format to generate an object code for program execution.