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Industrial automation

Four-quadrant operation

Automation; Industrial automation

In reference to a regenerative drive, the four combinations of forward and reverse rotation and forward and reverse torque.

Monitoring controller

Automation; Industrial automation

Used in an application where the process is continually checked to alert the operator of possible application malfunctions.

Bus topology

Automation; Industrial automation

A link topology in which all stations are connected in parallel to a medium. These stations are capable of concurrently receiving a signal transmitted by any other station connected to the medium.

Ac output module

Automation; Industrial automation

An I/O module that contains circuits that provide switching of ac power to machine/process load devices, based on backplane logic level dc signals. By implication, they are direct digital outputs.

Scaling

Automation; Industrial automation

The process of changing a quantity from one notation to another.

Regeneration

Automation; Industrial automation

1) For dc drives — the characteristic of a motor to act as a generator when the cemf is larger than the drive’s applied voltage. 2) For ac drives — when the rotor synchronous frequency is greater ...

Leading-edge triggering

Automation; Industrial automation

A programming technique of triggering some step by means of an off-to-on transition of an input signal. The off-to-on transition is considered the leading edge of the input pulse.

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