Automation components, sensors and drives glossary

Definitions of the building blocks of industrial automation — controllers, I/O, platforms and components — and of sensors and measurement, process instrumentation and analytical measurement, pneumatics and hydraulics, and motion control and drives from servo axes to frequency converters. Every entry shows the German term and explains how the component is selected, integrated and documented.

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