A&EAlarms & Events

ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute

APIApplication Program Interface

CNPOWERLINK Controlled Node

CSMA/CDCarrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection

DAData Access

EPSGEthernet POWERLINK Standardization Group

HDAHistorical Data Access

HMI Human-Machine Interface

IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission

IMOPC UA Information Model

IPInternet Protocol - RFC 791

ISOInternational Organization for Standardization

LANLocal Area Network

MESManufacturing Execution System

MNPOWERLINK Managing Node

NaN"Not a Number", a unique binary pattern representing an invalid number

(ANSI/IEEE 754-1985)

NATNetwork Address Translation - RFC 2663

NMTNetwork Management

ODPOWERLINK Object Dictionary

PDOPOWERLINK Process Data Object

RTEReal Time Ethernet

SCADASupervisory Control And Data Acquisition

SCNMSlot Communication Network Management

UA Unified Architecture

UTCUniversal Time Coordinated

XDDPOWERLINK XML device description

XMLExtensible Markup Language