3.3 Abbreviated terms

ACAlarm and Condition
ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute
APIApplication Program Interface
DAData Access
DCSDistributed Control Systems
ERPEnterprise Resource Planning
HMIHuman-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
UAUnified Architecture
UMLUnified Modelling Language
URIUniform Resource Identifier
UTCUniversal Time Coordinated
XMLExtensible Markup Language