Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Master!slave communication

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A form of communication in which one station has master status, which allows it to initiate communication with any other station on the link; while each of the other stations has slave status such ...

Buffer

Automation; Industrial automation

1) In software terms, a register or group of registers used for temporary storage of data, to compensate for transmission rate differences between the transmitter and receiving device. 2) In hardware ...

Constant-horsepower range

Automation; Industrial automation

A range of motor operation where motor speed is controlled by field weakening. In this range, motor torque decreases as speed increases. Since horsepower is speed times torque (divided by a ...

Combinational logic

Automation; Industrial automation

Logic in which the state of each output is controlled only by the states of inputs and the switching-transition delays encountered in the logic path. Compare sequential logic

Service factor

Automation; Industrial automation

When used on a motor nameplate, a number that indicates how much above the nameplate rating a motor can be loaded without causing serious degradation (i.e., a motor with 1.15 S-F can produce 15% ...