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HANDS-ON OPERATION [5 records]

Record 1 2022-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Facilities
  • Experimental Farms
CONT

These demonstration facilities are a critical tool... because they showcase sustainable... designs and technologies, outline basic concepts of operation and production and address industry's highest priority research needs. They also provide extension, public outreach, and hands-on training opportunities to facilitate workforce development.

OBS

demonstration facility: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • demonstration facilities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
  • Fermes expérimentales
OBS

installation de démonstration : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • installations de démonstration

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Military Training
DEF

... a device that closely simulates all major aspects of employing the corresponding actual firearm/weapons system, without firing live ammunition.

CONT

The armament training device provides hands-on skill development pertaining to the removal, installation, inspection, operation, and checkout tasks of the gun, gun doors, left main weapons bay door system and launchers, left side weapons bay launcher, right wing pylon, partial fuel system, stores management system, and weapons safing system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
CONT

[...] le simulateur des systèmes d'armes du CH-147F (le simulateur à système de mouvement complet des Chinook) est déclaré prêt à utiliser.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

... the operation of a computer facility in which most productive problem programming is performed by the problem originator rather than by a group of programming specialists.

CONT

Open shop operation is the operation of a computing system by the writer or user of a program and not by specialist computer operators.

OBS

Contrast with "hands-off operation".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
DEF

Mode d'opération d'un système dans lequel un opérateur réalise le contrôle.

OBS

Contraster avec «mode d'opération non assisté».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas operativos (Soporte lógico)
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Record 4 1998-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
CONT

Advanced teleoperation... Maintenance, repair, and dismantling operations in nuclear facilities must be performed remotely when radiation doses impede hands-on operation, but also to minimize contamination risks and occupational doses to the operators. Computer-aided and sensor-based teleoperation enhances safety, reliability, and performance by helping the operator in difficult tasks with poor remote environmental perception... To show the feasibility of radiation-hardened sensors in advanced teleoperation, we are constructing a telerobotics sensing demonstration workcell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
DEF

Technique de téléopération ultra-perfectionnée basée sur la technologie de pointe en matière de transmission et de traitement de l'information de façon à assurer la meilleure interaction possible homme-machine.

Spanish

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Record 5 1987-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Controls (Aeroindustry)
CONT

The four states of attentiveness refer to phases of a rescue flight as follows : Attentive hands-on assumes a search and rescue recovery operation, such as transition down, hovering and hovering manoeuvres, with duplex automatic stabilisation plus coupled SAR mode.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commandes de vol (Constructions aéronautiques)

Spanish

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