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Industrial automation

Contributors in Industrial automation

Industrial automation

Magnetic disc

Automation; Industrial automation

A flat disc with a magnetic surface on which data can be stored by selective polarization.

Programmable controller communication commands (PCCC)

Automation; Industrial automation

An application- level command set that Allen-Bradley programmable controllers use to communicate across networks.

Encoder line count

Automation; Industrial automation

The number of cycles (lines) per revolution on an encoder channel.

Puller

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A sink output; when turned on, it supplies a negative dc current to its load. 2) Contrasted with driver

Disc cache

Automation; Industrial automation

A portion of a computer’s RAM set aside for temporarily holding information read from disk. A disc cache does not hold entire files. Instead, it holds information that has recently been requested ...

Source field

Automation; Industrial automation

Identifies the address of the station that transmitted a network packet.

Import

Automation; Industrial automation

To bring information from one system or programme into another. This typically involves conversion from ASCII format.

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