Unit 7 Computer-controlled industry

Vocabulary

1. To process – обрабатывать

processing – обработка

process – (технологический) процесс

process industry – обрабатывающая промышленность

2. to facilitate – содействовать; облегчать

facility –устройство

facilities – оборудование; аппаратура

3. handling – управление, манипулирование; загрузка-разгрузка; транспортировка

4. variable – переменная величина

5. rate – скорость; интенсивность

6. actuation – приведение в действие

7. valve – клапан; распределитель

8. furnace – печь; горн; топка

9. to implement – осуществлять, выполнять; внедрять

10. alarm – аварийный сигнал

11. yield – объём выпуска; производительность; эффективность

12. sampling – апробирование; выборочный контроль

sample – образец; проба; выборка

13. to maintain – обслуживать

14. horn – рожок

15. message –сообщение

Vocabulary exercises

I. Read and translate the words of the same stem:

1. to use – use – user – useful – useless

2. to manufacture – manufacture – manufacturer

3. to automatize – automation – automated – automatic – automatically

4. to typify – type – typical – typically

5. to control – control – controlled – controller

6. to continue – continuous – semicontinuous – continuously

7. to produce – production – product – productivity

8. to facilitate – facility – facilities

9. to handle – handle – handling – handler

10. to execute – execution – executive – executor

11. to act – act - active – activity – actuation

12. to generate – generation – generator

13. to process – process – processing – processor

14. to scan – scanning – scanner

15. to calculate – calculation – calculating – calculator

16. to sense – sensing – sensitivity – sensor

II. Look through text 7a and find 10 international words. Read and translate them.

III. Choose some English equivalents for every Russian word:

A. 1. управлять, 2. выполнять, 3. производство, 4. производительность.

B. a. efficiency, b. to control, c. to execute, d. generation, e. to direct, f. yield, g. to implement, h. to handle, i. to manage, j. to perform, k. productivity, l. to operate, m. performance, n. manufacturing, o. to monitor, p. to accomplish, q. production.

IV. Read the phrases and give their Russian equivalents:

1. computer process control; process control computer.

2. production cycle steps; production steps cycle.

3. high level automation; high automation level.

4. process control system; system control process.

5. modern process plant; modern plant process.

6. feedback control loop; loop feedback control.

7. signal light action; light signal action.

V. Match the synonyms and translate them:

A. 1. control, 2. manufacture, 3. to involve, 4. loop, 5. data, 6. handling, 7. rate, 8. device, 9. to implement, 10. to produce, 11. plant, 12. to calculate.

B. a. speed, b. facility, c. to estimate, d. management, e. production, f. to include, g. factory, h. to fulfil, i. circuit, j. to generate, k. transportation, l. information.