Setpoint设定值
A setpoint is the target or reference value that a control system, such as a temperature loop, speed regulator, or position controller, is commanded to reach and hold. It appears in process recipes, control narratives, HMI screens, PID tuning guides, and alarm documentation, where it is usually expressed with units and must remain distinct from the measured or actual value.
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Where this term appears
Setpoint appears in HMI screen translations, operator manuals, process recipes, control-loop descriptions, and SCADA tag documentation. Translators encounter it in labels like “Setpoint entered,” “Setpoint not reached,” or in tables that compare setpoint, actual value, and alarm limits. The main task is to keep terminology consistent across HMI texts and printed manuals, because operators rely on the same term in both places.
Translation checks
A common mistake is translating “setpoint” as “setting value,” “reference value,” or “target value” interchangeably, even within one HMI project. Operators may then see different terms for the same control parameter. Another serious error is swapping setpoint and process value, or translating both as “设定值,” which can lead a technician to compare the wrong fields on a PID faceplate. In recipe localization, such inconsistencies can produce incorrect machine adjustments.
Chinese document application
Setpoint in context · control parameter
- English source
- Compare the actual value with the setpoint.
- Chinese rendering to review
- 将实际值与设定值进行比较。
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Check the distinction in context
A setpoint, measured value and limit may appear beside each other but serve different roles. Preserve their Chinese labels, units and display precision. Do not replace a limit with a target or infer a value from a similar screen.
Check the returned Chinese file
Compare the Chinese parameter labels in the exported table with their positions on the screen. Check units and decimal presentation while keeping a setpoint, an observed value and a limit identifiable as separate fields.
Prepare the connected files
Provide the parameter list and screen context, including protected keys. Ask whether the handover covers resource text, the parameter table or both.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check equipment names, units, safety instructions and interface labels against the source and approved references. Confirm any market-specific document requirements separately.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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