Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Industrial automation

Process n (software)

Automation; Industrial automation

A programme or part of a program; a coherent sequence of steps undertaken by a programme (e.g., a data transfer operation).

In any control loop, the difference between the set-point signal and the feedback signal. An error is necessary before a correction can be made in the controlled system. In a positioning loop, the ...

Parallel output addressing

Automation; Industrial automation

Two output modules having the same address. Each output on the one module is controlled by the same output image table bit as the corresponding (parallel) output on the other module.

Chassis

Automation; Industrial automation

A hardware assembly that houses devices such as I/O modules, adapter modules, processor modules, and power supplies.

Longitudinal redundancy cheque (LRC)

Automation; Industrial automation

An error-checking technique based on an accumulated exclusive-OR of transmitted characters. An LRC character is accumulated at both the sending and receiving stations (similar to CRC).