Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Open machine (motors)

Automation; Industrial automation

A machine with ventilating openings that permit passage of external cooling air over and around the windings of the machine (NEMA Standard).

End of transition (EOT)

Automation; Industrial automation

An instruction required on the last rung of a transition file of a sequential function chart.

The process of reducing the shunt field excitation on a dc motor to a level lower than its rated hot field current value. This is typically done dynamically while the motor is running under regulator ...

Angstrom

Automation; Industrial automation

Unit of measure for the wavelength of light (10A = 1nm).

Skew

Automation; Industrial automation

1) In a motor, the arrangement of laminations on a rotor or armature to provide a slight angular pattern of their slots with respect to the shaft axis. This pattern helps reduce low-speed cogging in ...

Vector quantity

Automation; Industrial automation

A quantity that denotes both magnitude and direction in relation to a given frame of reference. Examples of quantities that are vectors are displacement, velocity, force, and magnetic intensity.