AQDEF®Advanced Quality Data Exchange Format

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CS Companion Specification (referring to OPC UA)

CSV Comma separated values (ASCII text file format)

DMIS Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

GMS Geometric Measurement System

HMI Human-machine interface

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I++ DMSInspection PlusPlus Data Management Services

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISO GPSISO Geometrical Product Specification

JSON JavaScript Object Notation

MES Manufacturing Execution System

OEE Overall equipment effectiveness from ISO 22400

OPC UAOpen Platform Communications Unified Automation

PMS Production management system

Q-DAS Qualitative Data Analysis Software

QIF Quicken Interchange Format

TCP/IP Internet protocol suite (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

VDI Association of German Engineers

VDMA The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association of Germany

VIM The International Vocabulary of Metrology

XML Extensible Markup Language