Bus
Context: Manufacturing Automation A high-speed pathway shared by signals from several components of a computer.

Amplifier
Context: Manufacturing Automation A device which draws power from a source other than the input signal and which produces as an output an enlarged reproduction of the essential features of its input.

Configuration Management (CM)
A discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: · identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of CIs; · audit the CIs to verify conformance to...

Thermoplastic Glues And Resins
Glues and resins that are capable of being repeatedly softened by heat and hardened by cooling.

Control System
Context: Manufacturing Automation A system to guide or manipulate various elements in order to achieve a prescribed result.

ISO 9000
ISO 9000 is a set of international standards on quality management and quality assurance developed to help companies effectively document the quality system elements to be implemented to maintain an...

CAM
Context: Manufacturing Automation Computer-Aided Manufacturing is the use of computer technology to generate data to control part or all of a manufacturing process.

ISA
Context: Manufacturing Automation Industry Standard Architecture (PC-AT Bus) or Instrument Society of America.

Conventional Electricity Generation
Thermal generation of electricity by a plant using coal, petroleum, or natural gas as its source of energy, or hydroelectric generation of electricity by a plant using natural stream flow as...

Propylene (C3H6)
A normally gaseous olefinic hydrocarbon recovered from refinery processes or petrochemical processes. In the manufacturing sector, propylene is used primarily as a petrochemical feedstock.