Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Industrial automation

Terminate-and-stay-resident programme (TSR)

Automation; Industrial automation

A programme running under DOS that remains loaded in memory even when it is not running so that it can be quickly be invoked for a specific task performed while any other application programme is ...

Transaction

Automation; Industrial automation

In communication protocol, the procedure executed by the network to send a message designated at the application layer. This includes: station processing time, media access, transmission, and ...

Blank unit space

Automation; Industrial automation

Unit space not equipped to accept a future unit (as defined in NEMA Standard Pub. No. ICS 2, 1988).

Indexer

Automation; Industrial automation

A hardware or software system that produces motion (i.e., index) profiles. Usually the index profile is trapezoidal, but can be rectangular, triangular, parabolic, or sinusoidal.

An extended application layer protocol used by Allen-Bradley intelligent sensing devices to communicate with other devices and host processors. IDP commands and responses are inserted as data within ...

Load n

Automation; Industrial automation

The power or current used by a machine or apparatus.

Off line

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Describes equipment or devices not under direct control and not directly controlling. When equipment is either idle, undergoing repair, or performing a task under its own direction, it is said to ...