Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Big-endian

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Pertaining to the order of bytes within a word, such that the most-significant byte has the lowest address (big end first). 2) Contrasted with little-endian

Backlash

Automation; Industrial automation

A relative movement between interacting mechanical parts, resulting from looseness.

Attended system (bar code)

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A bar-code scanner/decoder combination that must be activated or attended by an operator. 2) Contrasted with unattended system

A measurement of the time phase difference between the voltage and current in an ac circuit. It is represented by the cosine of the angle of this phase difference. Power factor is the ratio of real ...

Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)

Automation; Industrial automation

An interface device for serial/parallel conversion, buffering, and adding cheque bits.

Communication rate (data transmission rate)

Automation; Industrial automation

The rate at which data is transmitted across a link (in bit/s).

Inertia

Automation; Industrial automation

A measure of a body’s resistance to changes in velocity, whether the body is at rest or moving at a constant velocity. The velocity can be either linear or rotational. The moment of inertia (WK2) is ...