Glossary
Industrial Electronics Repairer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential industrial electronics repairer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key industrial electronics repairer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in industrial electronics repairer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- 24 VDC
- Common control voltage.
- Arc flash
- Electrical explosion hazard.
- Calibration
- Adjusting accuracy.
- Circuit board
- Board holding components.
- Encoder
- Measures position or speed.
- Fault code
- Error message.
- HMI
- Human-machine interface.
- I/O
- Inputs and outputs.
- Ladder logic
- PLC programming language.
- Loop check
- Testing a control loop.
- PLC
- Programmable logic controller.
- Power supply
- Provides voltage.
- Sensor
- Device that detects conditions.
- Servo
- Precision motor.
- VFD
- Variable frequency drive.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Industrial Electronics Repairer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Industrial Electronics Repairer training.
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