Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Executable programme

Automation; Industrial automation

A programme that is ready to run. The term usually refers to a compiled programme that has been translated into machine code in a format that can be loaded into memory and run; however, for ...

In communication, a path is a link between two nodes in a network. In other contexts, a path is a route through a structured collection of information as in a database, a program, or files stored on ...

Unusable unit space

Automation; Industrial automation

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

Master-control reset (MCR)

Automation; Industrial automation

A ladder logic instruction used to delimit MCR zones.

Ac input module

Automation; Industrial automation

An I/O module that contains circuits that convert ac signals from machine/process switching devices to backplane logic level dc signals. By implication, they are direct digital inputs.

Report generation

Automation; Industrial automation

The printing or displaying of user-formatted application data by means of a data terminal. Report generation can be initiated by means of either a user programme or a data terminal keyboard.

Data communication equipment (DCE)

Automation; Industrial automation

1) Equipment that provides the functions required to establish, maintain, or terminate a connection. 2) The signal conversion and coding required for communication between data terminal equipment and ...