- AGV: Automatically Guided Vehicles
- BOM: Bill of Material
- CIP: Continuous Improvement Process
- Class 1 Div 2 Room: An area where ignitable concentrations of flammable gases, vapors or liquids are likely to exist under normal operating conditions.
- Cycle counting: An inventory auditing procedure aimed at maintaining accuracy, where a small subset of inventory, in a specific location, is counted on a specified day.
- DFS: Detailed Functional Specification
- FAT: The Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) is a major project milestone in an automation project where the equipment and/or system integrator demonstrates that the system design and manufacturing meets the contract specifications.
- FSMA compliance: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
- HMI: Human Machine Interface provides a visual representation of a control system and real-time data (i.e. tablet).
- I/O List: Any program, operation or device that transfers data to or from a computer and to or from a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input into another.
- Load Cells: Scales used under large tanks
- Mezzanine: Attached to building while a platform is free standing.
- MO: Manufacturing Order / SO Shop Order
- OEE: Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a term coined by Seiichi Nakajima in the 1960s to evaluate how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized.
- P&ID: Piping & Instrumentation Diagram
- PLC: Programmable Logic Controller is a special computer device used for industrial control systems.
- RASCI: A responsibility assignment matrix, also known as RACI matrix or linear responsibility chart, describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process.
- SCADA Package: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition is a control system architecture that uses computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level process supervisory management, but uses other peripheral devices such as programmable logic controller (PLC) and discrete PID controllers to interface with the process plant or machinery. The operator interfaces which enable monitoring and the issuing of process commands, such as controller set point changes, are handled through the SCADA computer system. However, the real-time control logic or controller calculations are performed by networked modules which connect to the field sensors and actuators.
- URD: User Requirements Document, specifies what the user expects the software to be able to do.
