| abbrev | define |
|---|---|
| # | Number |
| A | Amperes |
| A/C | Air Conditioning |
| AC | Alternating Current or Automation College |
| ACC | Advanced Combustion Control |
| ACE | Application Control Environment |
| ACIDP | Advanced Control Interface Data Point |
| ACM | Alarm Configuration Manager |
| AFCI | Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter |
| AFM | Advanced Formula Manager |
| AGA | American Gas Association |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| AGI | Application Graphic Interface |
| AHU | Air Handling Unit |
| AI | Analog Input |
| AIC | Ampere Interrupting Capacity |
| AIChE | American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| AL | Aluminum |
| AM | Application Module or Alarm Management |
| A-MC | Advanced Multifunction Controller |
| AMPC | Adaptive Multivariable Process Control |
| AMRI | Application Module Redundancy Interface |
| AO� | Analog Output |
| AOP | Annual Operating Plan |
| AOSM� | Analog Output Standby Manual |
| APAC | Asia-Pacific |
| APC | Advanced Process Control |
| APECS | Application Programming Environment for Control and Simulation |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APICS | American Production Inventory Control Society |
| APM | Advanced Process Manager |
| AR | Action Request |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASM� | Abnormal Situation Management |
| ATC | Automatic Temperature Control |
| ATS | Automatic Transfer Switch |
| AU | Arithmetic Unit (number cruncher for processor) |
| AWG | American Wire Gauge |
| AxM� | Application Module X-Windows |
| B | |
| B&P� | Bid and Proposal |
| BBU | Battery Backup Unit |
| BC | Batch Controller |
| BCM | BizCalc Manager |
| BDW | Business Decision Week |
| BG | Benefits Guardianship |
| BG Max� | Benefits Guardianship Maximum |
| BGP | Benefits Guardianship Program |
| BGP Optima | Benefits Guardianship Program Optima |
| BGP Performa | Benefits Guardianship Program Performa |
| BGP Plus | Benefits Guardianship Program Plus |
| BIOS� | Basic Input/Output System |
| BIS | Business Information System |
| BMA | Blending Movement & Automation |
| BMM | Blending and Movement Management |
| BOS | Basic Operating System |
| BPC� | Blend Property Control (refinery software package) |
| BPCS | Basic Process Control System |
| BPS | Bits Per Second |
| BRC | Blend Ratio Control (refinery software package) |
| BTU | British Thermal Units |
| C | Conduit |
| C/B | Circuit Breaker |
| C/S | Client/Server |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure |
| CAT� | Customer Acceptance Test |
| CATV | Cable Television or Community Antennae Television |
| CB | Critical Branch |
| CB | Controller Box (TDC2000 Basic Controller) |
| CBM | Certified Ballast Manufacturer |
| CBM | Condition-Based Maintenance |
| CCFA� | Common Card File Assembly |
| CCM | Client Configuration Manager (CM50N) |
| CCP | Communication and Control Processor |
| CCR� | Continuous Catalytic Regeneration |
| CCT | Circuit (also: CIR, CKT) |
| CCTV | Closed Circuit Television |
| CD | Candela |
| CD� | Cross Direction Controls (Paper Machine) |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| CE | Continuation Engineering |
| CE | Conformite (or Communaute) Europeene (mark indicating EC compliance) |
| CE� | Consulting Engineer |
| CE� | Configuration Engineer |
| CEE | Control Execution Environment |
| CEM | Continuous Emissions Monitor |
| CEMS� | Continuous Emissions Monitoring System |
| CFA�� | Card File Assembly |
| CFR�� | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CG | Computer Gateway |
| CGMP | Current Good Manufacturing Practice |
| CHP� | Combined Heat and Power |
| CI | Continuous Improvement |
| CIM | Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIOM-A | Chassis Input/Output Modules � Series A |
| CIP | Critical Infrastructure Protection |
| CIR | Circuit (also: CCT, CKT) |
| CIU | Communication Interface Unit |
| CKT | Circuit (also: CCT, CIR) |
| CL� | Control Language |
| CL/AM� | Control Language for Application Module |
| CL/PM� | Control Language for Process Manager |
| CLF | Current Limiting Fuse |
| C-LINK� | Communications Link |
| CLM | Communications Link Module |
| CLM-BB� | Communications Link Module Bristol Babcock |
| CLM-T� | Communications Link Module TIWAY (Texas Instruments tank gauging) |
| CM | Commercial Management |
| CM�� | Control Module |
| CM50 | Computing Module |
| CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integration |
| CMS� | Conformance Management Services |
| CNI | ControlNet Interface |
| CNM� | Control Network Module (620 LCS) |
| COC� | Certificate of Conformance |
| COE | Center of Excellence |
| COGS | Cost of Good Sold |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| CPA | Canada Pipeline Accessories |
| CPG | Consumer Packaged Goods |
| CPN� | Customer Priority Notice |
| CPT | Control Power Transformer |
| CPU� | Central Processing Unit |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Checking |
| CRC� | Customer Response Center |
| CRP� | Certified Recycled Parts |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CSA | Canadian Standards Association |
| CSA� | Checklist, Summary and Approvals |
| CSA�� | Customer Support Automation |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| CT | Current Transformer or Cycle Time |
| CU | Copper |
| CU� | Control Unit |
| DAS� | Data Acquisition System |
| dB | Decibel |
| DC | Direct Current |
| DCIS | Distributed Control and Information System |
| DCS | Distributed Control System |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange (Microsoft interface) |
| DDT�� | Data Definition Table |
| DE� | Digitally Enhanced |
| DFM | Design for Manufacturing |
| DFSS | Design for Six Sigma |
| DH | Data Hiway |
| DHB� | Data Hiway Bridge |
| DHI� | Data Hiway Interface |
| DHP | Data Hiway Port |
| DI | Digital Integration |
| DIA | Diameter |
| DNCF� | Dual Node Card File |
| DNPWR | Dual Node Power Supply Assemby |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DP� | Differential Pressure |
| DSA | Distributed System Architecture |
| DTC | Digital Turbine Control |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DVM | Digital Video Manager |
| E&C | Engineering and Construction |
| E&I� | Engineering and Instrumentation |
| EB | Equipment Branch |
| EBR� | Experion Backup and Restore software |
| EC | Electrical Code or Electrical Contractor |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EF | Exhaust Fan |
| EH&S� | Environmental Health and Safety |
| EHB | Experion Hiway Bridge |
| EHM | Equipment Health Management |
| EHPM | Enhanced High-Performance Process Manager |
| EHS | Environment, Health and Safety |
| ELEV | Elevator |
| ELMM | Enhanced Logic Manager Module |
| EM | Emergency |
| EMEA | Europe, Middle East, Africa |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
| EMT | Electrical Metallic Tubing |
| ENIM | Enhanced Network Interface Module |
| EOS� | Enhanced Operator Station |
| EP | Emergency Power |
| EPC | Engineering�Procurement and Construction |
| EPDG | Enhanced Peripheral Display Generator |
| EPLCG | Enhanced Programmable Logic Controller Gateway |
| EPNI� | Enhanced Process Network Interface |
| EPO | Emergency Power Off (Button or Switch) |
| EPRI | Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA) |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning (expanded MRP system from Atlantic Research Company) |
| ESD | Electrostatic Discharge |
| ESPC | Energy Saving Performance Contracting |
| ESVT� | Experion Server TPS |
| ETN | Enhanced TPS Node |
| EUCN | Enhanced Universal Control Network |
| EWC | Electric Water Cooler |
| F | Fuse |
| FA | Fire Alarm |
| FAA | Fire Alarm Annunciator |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FAT | Factory Acceptance Test |
| FAX� | Facsimile Transmission |
| FC | Flow Conditioner |
| FCCU | Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit |
| FDCM | Field Device Configuration Manager, replaced by FDM |
| FDM | Field Device Manager |
| FDU | Field Demonstration Unit |
| FEED | Front-end Engineering Design |
| FEL | Front-End Loading |
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| FF | Foundation Fieldbus |
| FFGR | Fluid Gas Recirculation |
| FGS | Fire and Gas System |
| FI� | Field Instrumentation (transmitters, etc.) |
| FIFO | First In First Out |
| FIM | Fieldbus Interface Module |
| FLA | Full Load Amperes |
| FLM | Fieldbus Library Manager |
| FM | Factory Mutual |
| FMC | Flexible Metal Conduit |
| FOB | Free On Board (freight and insurance responsibility) or Factory Order Blank |
| FPA | Fire Protection Agency |
| FPD | Flat Panel Display |
| FSC | Fail Safe Controller |
| FSC� | Frame Sequence Check |
| FSD | Final System Definition |
| FT | Functional Transformation |
| FTA | Field Termination Assembly |
| FTB | Front Terminal Block |
| FTE | Fault Tolerant Ethernet |
| FTP� | File Transfer Protocol |
| FWME | Flow Weighted Mean Error |
| G | Ground |
| GFCI, GFI | Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter |
| GND | Ground |
| GRMC | Galvanized Rigid Metal Conduit |
| HOA | Hand-Off-Automatic Switch |
| HVAC | Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning |
| HZ | Hertz |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IG | Isolated Ground |
| IMC | Intermediate Metal Conduit |
| INT | Interlock |
| KCMIL | Thousand Circular Mils |
| KVA | Kilovolt-Amperes |
| KVAR | Kilovolt-Amperes Reactive |
| LFMC | Liquid Tight Flexible Metal Conduit |
| LRA | Lock Rotor Amps |
| LTG | Lighting |
| MC | Metal Clad Cable |
| MCB | Main Circuit Breaker |
| MCC | Motor Control Center |
| MCP | Motor Circuit Protection |
| MI | Mineral Insulated |
| MLO | Main Lugs Only |
| MW | Megawatt |
| NC | Normally Closed |
| NEC | National Electrical Code |
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
| NFPA | National Fire Protection Association |
| NL | Night Light |
| NO | Normally Open or Number |
| P | Pole |
| PB | Push Button or Panic Button or Pull Box |
| PNL | Panel |
| PT | Potential Transformer |
| PWR | Power |
| QTY | Quantity |
| REQ | Required |
| RMC | Rigid Metal Conduit |
| RMS | Root Mean Squared |
| RNC | Rigid Non-Metallic Conduit |
| RTS | Remote Test Station |
| RTU | Roof Top Unit |
| SP | Spare |
| ST | Shunt Trip |
| SW | Switch |
| SYM | Symmetrical |
| TEL | Telephone |
| TGB | Telecommunications Grounding Busbar |
| TMCB | Thermal Magnetic Circuit Breaker |
| UG | Under Ground |
| UL | Underwriters Laboratory |
| V | Volt |
| VA | Volt-Ampere |
| VT | Voltage Transformer |
| W | Watt or Wire |
| WH | Water Heater |
| WP | Weather Proof |
| XFMR | Transformer |