Marshall Air 503980

MODULE CONTROL INTERFACE

Controls of all kinds are integral parts of restaurant equipment operation. A control is a switch or other device by which a machine is regulated. A control may be manual or automatically operated. An electro-mechanical control typically consists of multiple relays, timers, and/or counters wired together on an enclosure panel. Electro-mechanical control is also referred to simply as "Relay Control", which is a more accurate term since solid state electronic relays, timers, and counters are standard components. Contactors, motor and compressor starters, valves, thermostats, and other output devices are used to turn on/off motors, indicator lights, heating elements, and other components used in the equipment.

Examples of interfaces in restaurant equipment may be as simple as an on-off button to complex combi-oven menu setting and selection control. The interface then connects to and sends commands to internal circuitry, relays, and switches to control the equipment operation. The user interface (UI), is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The interface allows effective operation and control of the machine from the human end. Advanced interfaces feed back that provides operating status information to the operator.

In foodservice equipment, a module is one sub-component (or "part") of a larger more complex device that may be the fully assembled piece of equipment itself. A module may refer to a variety of replacement parts including relay modules, ignition modules, communications modules, heater modules and others.