Abbreviations - Industrial

We live in a world of acronyms. Nowhere is this more true than on the factory floor. Here is a brief list of some of the abbreviations you may encounter in evaluating our proposal. This partial listing is offered also as a convenience to our website visitors.

Associations

ANSI - American National Standards Institute
FM - Factory Mutual
IDEA - Industry Data Exchange Association
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
ISO - International Standards Organization
NFPA - National Fire Protection Agency
NAM - National Association of Manufacturers
NEMA - National Electrical manufacturers Association
SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers
SME - Society of Mechanical Engineers

Standards

DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normierung
ISO - International Standards Organization
MAP - Manufacturing Automation Protocol
NEC - National Electrical Code
ODBC - Open Database Compliant
OSI - Open Systems Interconnection

Systems

CAN - Controller Area Network
CMES - Collaborative Mfg. Execution System
DCS - Distributed Control System
FIS - Factory Information System
HMI - Human/Machine Interface
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
LAN - Local Area Network
OS - Operating System
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TOP - Technical Office Protocol
UCOS - User Configurable Open Systems
WAN - Wide Area Network

Hardware

AWG - American Wire Gauge
CPU - Central Processing Unit
DAS - Data Acquisition System
DCE - Data Communications Equipment
DSP - Digital Signal Processor
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ISB - Intrinsically Safe Barrier
Modem - Modulator/Demodulator
PC - Personal Computer
PLC - Programmable Logic Controller
PAC - Programmable Automation Controller
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VFD - Virtual Field Device

Software

CIS - Customer Information System
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
EAM - Enterprise Asset Management
FIS - Factory Information System
MES - Manufacturing Execution System
MPM - Manufacturing Process Management
SNR - Systems Network Architecture
WFM - Workforce Management

Methods

A/D - Analog-to-digital
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BCD - Binary Coded Decimal
DMAIC - Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control
DMADV - Define/Measure/Analyze/Design/Verify
DOE - Design of Experiment
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
FMEA - Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
MRO - Maintenance, Repair and Operations
MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure
Six Sigma - Statistical Methodology for Improving Performance
TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
XML - Extensible markup Language