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Industrial automation
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Industrial automation
Standard drawings
Automation; Industrial automation
Arrangement drawings and wiring diagrams prepared with manufacturer’s standard drawing sizes, device symbols, and identification and numbering designation (as defined in NEMA Standard Pub. No. ICS 2, ...
Solicited message
Automation; Industrial automation
1) To a station receiving a message, it is solicited if it is a reply to a command message sent previously by the station now receiving the message. 2) Contrasted with unsolicited message
Normally open contacts
Automation; Industrial automation
A set of contacts on a relay or switch that is open when the relay is de-energized or the switch is de-activated. (They are closed when the relay is energised or the switch is activated.)
Reactance
Automation; Industrial automation
Pure inductance or capacitance, expressed in ohms, in a circuit. It is the component of impedance to alternating current that is not resistance.
Gate
Automation; Industrial automation
1) A logic element that blocks or passes a signal, depending on the status of specified input signals. 2) The control element of an SCR or of some other solid-state devices.
Link turnaround time
Automation; Industrial automation
The time between the end of a frame transmitted by one station to the start of the next frame transmitted by another station, as referenced by the signals on the bus. For example, from the last bit ...
Nest
Automation; Industrial automation
1) To embed a subroutine or block of data into a larger routine or block of data. 2) On a ladder logic rung, to have one branch begin or end within another branch.
