Acronyms and Initials Index
Used in Instrumentation, Controls and on the Net
Readout acknowledges the list published by the The Institute of
Measurement and Control in the Instrument Engineer's Yearbook formed the original basis for this list.
AICRO Association of Independent Contract Research Organisations
AIM Alternative Investment Market
AIoT Artificial Intelligence of Things
AIS Italian Instrument Society
ALM regards the process of delivering software as a continuously repeating cycle of inter-related steps: definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management. Each of these steps needs to be carefully monitored and controlled. (See Wikipedia on this)
AMT Advanced Manufacturing Technology (also AMT Association organised by Forbairt)
AnCO An Comhairle Oiliúna (subsumed in FÁS)
ANN Artificial Neural Networks
ANSI American National Standards Institution
AOI Automated optical inspection.
AP Application protocol
AP Application programming interface
APC Advanced process control.
API Active pharmaceutical ingredients
API American Petroleum Institution
API Application programming interfaces
Asset Performance Management balances asset availability and utilization to optimize business value. APM uses dynamic performance measures to determine the business value of assets and the true value that they generate; manufacturers need not attempt to optimize availability or utilization independently.
APL Advanced Physical Layer (see Wikipedia Ethernet-APL )
ARM Advanced RISC Machine (was Acorn RISC Machine).
ARP Address resolution protocol
ASD Aspirating Smoke Detection
ASE Association for Science Education
ASHRAE The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
ASI Actuator Sensor Interface
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit
ASM Abnormal situation management
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASN Abstract Syntax Notation
ASSP Application-specific standard products
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
AT adaptive technologies
ATCA Advanced telecom computing architecture
ATERIS Air Toxics Exposure & Risk Information System
ATM Asynchronous transfer mode
ATML defines a standard exchange medium for sharing information between components of automatic test systems. This information includes test data, resource data, diagnostic data, and historic data.
ATML Automatic Test Markup Language.
ATX Advanced Technology Extended.
AUT Association of University Teachers
AV autonomous vehicle
AVS American Vacuum Society
AWR Applied wave research
B
B2B Business to businesse
BAAS British Association for the Advancement of Science
CAN-FD Controller Area Network Flexible Data-Rate.
CAMS Consolidated alarm management software
CAO Central Applications Office
CAP Certified Automation Professional
CAT Computerised Axial Tomography
CB Scheme The IECEE CB Scheme is an international system for mutual acceptance of test reports and certificates dealing with the safety of electrical and electronic components, equipment and products.
CBE Computer based engineering
CBM Condition-based maintenance
CBMPE Confederation of British Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment (now EIC, qv)
CCC Co-ordinating Committee: C.Eng
CCD Charge coupled device
CCDF Complimentary cumulative distribution function
CC-Link is an industrial field level network that processes both control and information data at high speed, to provide efficient, integrated factory and process automation. It provides high speed, deterministic communication linking a wide range of multi-vendor automation devices over a single cable.
The CC-Link Partner Association (CCLP)
CCGT Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
CC-Link Control & communication link
CCP CCP
CCPS Centre for Chemical Proces Safety (AIChE)
CCS Carbon capture and storage.
CCST Certified Control Systems Technician (ISA)
CCT Co-ordinating Committee: TEng, Eng Tech
CD Commitee draft (IEC)
CDN Coupling/decoupling network
CDRA Committee of Directors of Research Associations
CDV Committee draft voting
CDVEC City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee
CE Communauté Européenne (Conformity Europe).
CE Customer engineer
CEE Control Engineering Europe - Publication
CEM Continuous Emission Monitoring
CEMA Committee of European Promotors of Exhibitions of Measurement and Automation.
COP The Coefficient Of Performance expresses the energy efficiency of a machine and corresponds to the ratio of heating or cooling provided to electrical energy consumed. The higher the COP, the lower the electricity bill.
CWDM Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (What is CWDM?: Margaret Rouse.)
CXPI (Clock eXtension Peripheral Interface) is designed to succeed the widely-used Local Interconnect Network (LIN) automotive communication protocol. CXPI reduces the bill-of-material costs and lower fuel consumption by requiring fewer wire harnesses in a vehicle. Standard J3076_201510.
EDDL is a text-based language for describing the digital communication
characteristics of intelligent devices and equipment parameters in an
Operating System (OS) and Human Machine Interface (HMI)-neutral environment.
EDDL enables a host system manufacturer to create a single engineering
environment that can support any device, from any supplier, using any
communications protocol, without the need for custom software drivers for
each device type.
EN European Norm (Prefixed to European Standards numbers)
Eng Tech Engineering Technician
EOL End of Life
Eolas (Knowledge) The Irish Science & Technology Agency (Now subsumed in Forbairt)
EOS European Optical Society
EOT Eco Obsolete Technology
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPC:It is a common form of contracting arrangement within the construction industry. Under an EPC contract, the contractor will design the installation, procure the necessary materials and construct it, either through own labour or by subcontracting part of the work. The contractor carries the project risk for schedule as well as budget in return for a fixed price, called Lump sum or LSTK depending on the agreed scope of work.
EPC Engineering Procurement and Construction
EPIC Exchange Price Information Computer (Code used in Stock Exchange dealings)