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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character mode

Automation; Industrial automation

In the Advisor system, the mode in which ASCII and graphic characters are presented to yield a resolution of 80 by 48 lines or columns.

reverse-polarity protection

Automation; Industrial automation

Using a diode in a circuit to protect against damage in case polarity of the power supply should be accidentally reversed.

termination

Automation; Industrial automation

A load connected to the end of a transmission line. To avoid signal reflections, it must match the characteristic impedance of the line.

link-level acknowledge

Automation; Industrial automation

An immediate response transmission from a station after receiving a transmission, without requiring the station to acquire the token. Reception of a positive acknowledgment ...

manipulation

Automation; Industrial automation

The process of controlling and monitoring data table bits, bytes, or words by means of the user program to vary application functions.

real time

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Having to do with the actual time during which physical events take place. 2) The performance of a computation during the actual time that the related physical process ...

consecutive message control

Automation; Industrial automation

A programming technique that allows reports to be printed sequentially, in an orderly fashion, regardless of how quickly they are requested through the user program.