Acronym
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Description
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| ASCII | American standard code for information interchange |
| AIM | Automated Instrument Manager |
| AM/FM | Automated mapping/facilities maintenance; see also FM/AM |
| ATM | Asynchronous transfer mode; a communications standard |
| bps | bits per second |
| CSMA/CD | carrier sense multiple-access, with collision detection; a communications method used widely, most often for Ethernet; see TCP/IP |
| DBF | data base format; data base file |
| DCS | Distributed control system; computers and I/O that control the real world in real time |
| DMS | Document management system |
| DNI | desktop network interface; see NIC |
| EIMS | environmental information management system |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| FDDI | fiber distributed data interface; a communications standard for networks |
| FIM | facilities information management |
| FM/AM | AM/FM; automated mapping and facilities management |
| GIS | geographical information system, a system used to combine different types of geographically-related information, such as water mains, sewers, power lines and roads. |
| GPS | global positioning system; satellites that continually transmit timing signals that allow a receiver to find its position. |
| GUI | Graphical user interface; a program that lets users select icons representing commands
and prompts for parameter entries through dialog boxes; see MMI
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| HMI | human-machine interface; discriminatory term; see MMI |
| HTTP | hypertext transport protocol |
| HTML | hypertext markup language |
| I&C | information and control |
| IIMS | integrated information management system, a system that links two or more client computer systems to automatically exchange information |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IMS | Information management system |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ISP | Information Solutions Practice; Internet Service Provider; Interoperable System Project |
| kbps | kilobps, one thousand bps |
| LAN | Local area network |
| LIMS | laboratory information management system |
| Mbps | Megabps, one million bps |
| MCS | management consulting services |
| MIPS | million instructions per second; a measure of computational speed |
| MIS | management information system; the suite of applications used by management to coordinate results from other subsystems such as LIMS and SCADA |
| MMI | mind-machine interface |
| MMS | maintenance management system |
| NEC | National Electric Code |
| NIC | network interface card; PCB that interfaces a computer to a network |
| NIGS | National Institute of Government Planning |
| ODBC | open database connectivity |
| OLE | object linking and embedding; a way of combining information from different files |
| OI | operator interface; the hardware and software that shows an operator the state of a process |
| OIS | operator interface station; operational intercomm system |
| OOP | Object Oriented Programming |
| OSI | open system interconnection |
| P&ID | process and instrumentation drawing/diagram |
| PC | personal computer |
| PCB | printed circuit board |
| PDS | project delivery system |
| RAID | redundant array of inexpensive devices; usually a group of similar devices such as disc drives that provide 100 percent back up and can survive failure of any single component without losing functionality |
| RISC | reduced instruction set computer/chip |
| RTU | remote terminal unit |
| SCADA | supervisory control and data acquisition [system] |
| sequel | see SQL |
| SMDS | Switched Multi-Megabit Data System |
| SNA | system network architecture |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| TCP/IP | transmission control protocol/internet protocol; see CSMA/CD |
| WAN | Wide-area network |
