ACAlarm and Condition

ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute

APIApplication Program Interface

DAData Access

DCSDistributed Control Systems

ERPEnterprise Resource Planning

HMI Human-Machine Interface

HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol

IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission

IPInternet Protocol - RFC 791

ISOInternational Organization for Standardization

LANLocal Area Network

MESManufacturing Execution System

MoMManufacturing Operation Management

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

(see ANSI/IEEE 754-1985)

NATNetwork Address Translation - RFC 2663

PLCProgramable Logical Controller

PMSProduction Management System

TCPTransmission Control Protocol

UA Unified Architecture

UMLUnified Modelling Language

URIUniform Resource Identifier

UTCUniversal Time Coordinated

XMLExtensible Markup Language