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Industrial automation

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Industrial automation

programmable controller

Automation; Industrial automation

A solid-state control system that has a user-programmable memory for storage of instructions to implement specific functions such as I/O control, logic, timing, counting, report generation, ...

stiffness

Automation; Industrial automation

The ability of a device to resist deviation due to load change.

microprocessor

Automation; Industrial automation

A central processing unit that is manufactured on a single integrated circuit (or on only a few integrated circuits) by utilizing large-scale integration technology.

diode

Automation; Industrial automation

A solid-state unidirectional conductor.

common-mode rejection

Automation; Industrial automation

The ability of a differential analog input to cancel a common-mode signal, expressed in dB.

check-sum character

Automation; Industrial automation

A character placed at the end of a data block that corresponds to the binary sum of all characters in that block. Used for error detection.

silicon controlled rectifier (SCR)

Automation; Industrial automation

A solid-state uni-directional latching switch.

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