3.3 Abbreviated terms
| AC | Alarm and Condition |
| DCS | Distributed Control Systems |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| HMI | Human Machine Interface |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| MES | Manufacturing Execution System |
| PLC | Programmable Logical Controller |
| PMS | Production Management System |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UML | Unified Modelling Language |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| WMTP | Wireless Machine Tool Peripheral |