Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Encoder

Automation; Industrial automation

Any feedback element that converts linear or rotary position (absolute or incremental) into a digital signal.

SA 00

Automation; Industrial automation

A family of configurable brushless drives available from the Rockwell Automation Drive Systems Group.

1) The ratio of working time to total time for an intermittently operating device. Usually expressed as a percentage. 2) The ratio of pulse width to the interval between like portions of successive ...

Loop

Automation; Industrial automation

A sequence of instructions that is executed repeatedly until a terminating condition is satisfied.

Serial

Automation; Industrial automation

Pertaining to time-sequential transmission of, storage of, or logic operations on data, using the same facilities for successive parts.

Actuator (output device)

Automation; Industrial automation

1) A device that converts an electrical signal into mechanical motion. 2) In a general sense, any machine/process load device (e.g., transducer) of a controller output circuit.