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Industrial automation

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Industrial automation

Serial access

Automation; Industrial automation

A memory characteristic wherein all data is entered sequentially at a single input or retrieved sequentially from a single output.

Multibus

Automation; Industrial automation

An open-architecture backplane (bus) developed by Intel Corporation. It is used as the base platform for the AutoMax DCS system.

Network efficiency

Automation; Industrial automation

The ratio of non-network information transferred to the potential information transfer of the communication channel.

DeviceLink cable

Automation; Industrial automation

A cable assembly that includes a status indicator and filtering to interface a hard-contact or solid-state sensor to a DeviceNet network.

Parallel output

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Simultaneous availability of two or more bits, channels, or digits. 2) In ladder logic, branched output instructions.

Request to send (RTS)

Automation; Industrial automation

A request from the module to the modem to prepare to transmit. It typically turns on the data carrier.

Slave (communication)

Automation; Industrial automation

On a communication link, a station that cannot initiate communication. Only a master can initiate communication.

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