Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Digital gauge

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A measuring device/instrument that indicates the measurement result via digital signal. 2) Contrasted with analogue gauge

Trapezoidal profile

Automation; Industrial automation

A motion profile in which the velocity-vs-time profile resembles a trapezoid. characterised by constant acceleration, constant velocity, and constant deceleration.

Modular

Automation; Industrial automation

Being made up of smaller units, or modules, each of which can be developed, tested, and finished independently before being combined with the others in the modular unit. Modularity provides the ...

Quiescent

Automation; Industrial automation

At rest — specifically, the condition of a circuit when no input signal is applied to it.

Ambient temperature

Automation; Industrial automation

The temperature of the medium (air, water, earth) into which the heat of the equipment is dissipated.

Control

Automation; Industrial automation

1) To cause a machine or process to function in a predetermined manner. 2) To energise or de-energize an output, or to set a data table bit to on or off, by means of the user program.