Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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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 are competing for use ...

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.

Analogue output module

Automation; Industrial automation

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

Quantization

Automation; Industrial automation

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

Update time

Automation; Industrial automation

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

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 programme execution.