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Deutsch: Struktur / Español: Estructura / Português: Estrutura / Français: Structure / Italiano: Struttura
Structure in an industrial context refers broadly to the physical framework, organization, or arrangement of materials, components, or systems used in manufacturing, production, and organizational processes. This encompasses everything from the physical buildings and machinery that facilitate operations to the defined, hierarchical organization of labor and the complex arrangement of global supply networks. Essentially, the term describes the underlying organization and composition that dictates how an industrial entity functions, maintains stability, and executes its core mission of transforming inputs into outputs.
Deutsch: Dienstleistung / Español: Servicio / Português: Serviço / Français: Service / Italiano: Servizio /
In an industrial context, 'service' can refer to a range of activities that are provided to customers in order to support the use or maintenance of a product, or to enable the delivery of a particular outcome.
Deutsch: Schalter / Español: Interruptor / Français: Interrupteur / Italiano: Interruttore
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can break an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
Deutsch: Halbleiter / Español: Semiconductor / Português: Semicondutor / Français: Semi-conducteur / Italiano: Semiconduttore
A semiconductor is a material which has electrical conductivity to a degree between that of a metal (such as copper) and that of an insulator (such as glass). Semiconductors are the foundation of modern solid state electronics, including transistors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), quantum dots and digital and analog integrated circuits.
A screw and a bolt are similar types of fastener typically made of metal and characterized by a helical ridge, called a male thread (external thread). Screws and bolts are used to fasten materials by the engagement of the screw thread with a similar female thread (internal thread) in a matching part.
Deutsch: Nähen / Español: Costura - Costura / Português: Costura - Costura / Français: Couture - Couture
Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era. Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabric, archaeologists believe Stone Age people across Europe and Asia sewed fur and skin clothing using bone, antler or ivory needles and "thread" made of various animal body parts including sinew, catgut, and veins.