Industrial automation

Industrial automation

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Industrial automation

Application programme

Automation; Industrial automation

A programme written for or by a user to perform the functions needed for his application. Compare to operating system and utility software

Independent background programme (IBP)

Automation; Industrial automation

In ladder logic programming, a programme without a time limit and independent of the main ladder logic program. It can be used for such background tasks as time-consuming computations and data ...

Future-unit space

Automation; Industrial automation

Unit space specified and equipped to accept a future unit (as defined in NEMA Standard Pub. No. ICS 2, 1988).

Data definition language (DDL)

Automation; Industrial automation

A language, usually part of a database management system, that is used to define all attributes and properties of a database — especially record layouts, field definitions, key fields, file ...

An I/O module that contains circuits that convert analogue dc input signals to digital values that can be manipulated by the processor. By implication, these analogue inputs are usually direct (i.e., ...