Industrial automation

Industrial automation

Industry: Automation

Add a new term

Contributors in Industrial automation

Become a Contributors

Industrial automation

module (software)

Automation; Industrial automation

A collection of routines and data structures that performs a particular task or implements a particular abstract data type.

A symbolic name used in a tag to identify a specific entity within a complete set of related entities. For example, an I/O definition file may contain a tag (definition) for each I/O — with each I/O ...

command-reply pair

Automation; Industrial automation

The combination of messages normally occurring on a communication network; the first message is a command for work to be done, the second message is a reply (from the station receiving the command ...

producer/consumer model

Automation; Industrial automation

A communication model in which data is identified by its content rather than by its source or destination. Devices that need the data (consumers) recognize the data they need and consume it. ...

distributed processing system

Automation; Industrial automation

A system containing multiple hardware units located at different physical locations; individual hardware units do stand-alone processing, but can also be interconnected to share data with other ...

host interface

Automation; Industrial automation

The communication interface to the host computer.

high level data-link control (HDLC)

Automation; Industrial automation

A communication protocol sanctioned by the International Standards Organization (ISO) that defines procedures for the data link and physical protocol layers.