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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operating system

Automation; Industrial automation

The software responsible for controlling the allocation and usage of hardware resources such as memory, CPU time, disk space and peripheral devices. The operating system is the ...

node processing time

Automation; Industrial automation

1) The time it takes for a station to prepare a message for transmission across the network once it interprets the command. 2) The time it takes to deliver a message to the ...

subroutine

Automation; Industrial automation

A series of program instructions that performs a specific task for the main program or other routines.

digital-to-analog conversion (D/A conversion)

Automation; Industrial automation

Production of an analog signal whose instantaneous magnitude is proportional to the magnitude of a digital value.

data

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A general term for any type of information. 2) In a more restricted sense, data refers to the end-use information in the particular context; thereby excluding the protocol ...

2-slot addressing (two-slot addressing) (double-slot addressing)

Automation; Industrial automation

A mode of addressing I/O in which each even/odd pair of I/O module slots of an I/O chassis is addressed as an I/O group. Each I/O module slot contains 1/2 of an I/O group.