Technical Terms Glossary

Noise reduction in non-linear systems and the superiority of the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF).

Functional hierarchy of industrial devices: From sensing the physical world to taking action.

Ensuring measurement trust: The concepts of Calibration, Traceability, and Uncertainty.

Technical definition and importance of accuracy and precision concepts, which are often confused in measurement systems.

Understanding the "brain" of AI: How Transformers, Attention Mechanisms, and Context Windows work.

Key terms in how AI processes input and generates output: Tokens, Vector Embeddings, and managing Hallucinations.

Key concepts in creating efficient AI models: From Pre-training on massive data to optimizing for edge devices with Quantization.

Understanding instrument performance: Hysteresis effects and long-term Stability (Drift).

The mathematics of how bit depth (12-bit, 24-bit) affects the smallest value you can measure.

Preparing analog signals for the digital world: Amplification, Filtering, and Electrical Isolation.

Essential technical terms and OIML standards used in load cells and industrial weighing systems.

Digital signal processing techniques used to clean noisy signals and their applications.

Definition of embedded systems, microcontrollers, RTOS, and their improved role in modern industrial electronics.

Wireless technology enabling data transmission over kilometers with low power consumption.

Working principle of 4-20mA, the most common analog signal standard in industrial automation, and its advantages over 0-10V.

Conversion of analog signals to digital data, the concept of resolution (bit depth), and its critical role in industrial measurement.

The process of a trained AI model making predictions or decisions based on live data.

The aliasing problem caused by insufficient sampling rate in data acquisition and the Nyquist theorem.

The open industrial network developed primarily by Mitsubishi Electric, dominant in the Asian market.

Understanding Deep Learning, neural networks, and their role in advanced industrial anomaly detection and vision systems.

Highway Addressable Remote Transducer: Mixing analog simplicity with digital intelligence.

The science of measurement and control. Covering sensors, transmitters, and controllers in industrial processes.

Connecting sensors to the internet, big data collection, and the role of cloud-based analytics in manufacturing.

Deviations in the input-output curve of sensors and the impact of "Non-Linearity" on measurement reliability.

Working logic of MQTT, the lightest and most popular communication protocol of the IoT world.

Differences between Modbus RTU and TCP, the most common communication protocols in industrial automation, their working principles and advantages.

Profinet, the industrial Ethernet standard developed by Siemens, and differences from Profibus.

The art of designing inputs to get the best possible output from an Artificial Intelligence model.

How RAG allows AI models to answer questions using private, up-to-date external data sources.

Sources of electrical noise (EMI/RFI) in industrial environments, their effect on measurement errors, and filtering methods.

Revolutionary radar-like technology used for indoor positioning and short-range high-speed data transmission.

Advantages over analog transmitters, the power of digital signal processing, and data integrity.

Working principle of sensors converting force into electrical signals, Wheatstone bridge, and industrial applications.

The working logic of PLCs, the brains of factories, their integration with sensors, and their place in automation systems.

Explanation of linear potentiometers, their resistive working principle, and common applications in position sensing.

Definition of Large Language Models, how they work, and their applications in industrial data interpretation.

Working principle of Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDT) for high-precision linear position measurement.

Capturing instantaneous maximum and minimum values (Peak Hold) in dynamic measurements and their applications.

Wireless LAN (WLAN/Wi-Fi) usage in factory automation, security risks, and industrial Wi-Fi standards.