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A
A/D Analogue to Digital
AA Airport Authority
AAS American Astronomical Society
ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (US)
ABRC Advisory Board for the Research Councils
ABS acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
AC Alternating Current
ACARD Advisory Council on applied Research and Developenent
ACC Adaptive cruise control
ACCM Advisory Council on Calibration and Measurement
ACOST Advisory Council on Science and Technology
ACSE Application Control Service Element
AD ISA's Analysis Division
AFCET Association Francaise pour la Cybernetique Economique et Technique.
AFRC Agricultural and Food Research Council
AFT An Foras Talúntais (now subsumed in Teagasc)
AGA American Gas Association
AGC Automatic Generation Control
AGU American Geophysical Union
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIA Automated Imaging Association
AIChE American Institute of Chemical Engineers
AICRO Association of Independent Contract Research Organisations
AIS Italian Instrument Society
AM Amplitude modulation
AMR Automatic meter reading
AMS Asset management solutions
AMT Advanced Manufacturing Technology (also AMT Association organised by Forbairt)
AnCO An Comhairle Oiliúna (now subsumed in FÁS)
ANN Artificial Neural Networks
ANSI American National Standards Institution
AP Application protocol
AP Application programming interface
API American Petroleum Institution
API Active pharmaceutical ingredients
APS American Physical Society
ARP Address resolution protocol
ASE Association for Science Education
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
ATERIS Air Toxics Exposure & Risk Information System
ATM Asynchronous transfer mode
AUT Association of University Teachers
AVS American Vacuum Society
B
B2B Business to businesse
BAAS British Association for the Advancement of Science
BACT Best Available Control Technology
baluns Balanced/Unbalanced devices
BAM Batch activity management
BASEEFA British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in Flammable Atmospheres
BAYS British Association of Young Scientists
BCR European Community Bureau of Reference
BCS British Calibration Service
BCS British Computer Society
BDI Business Directory International - Publishers of the InterNet
BEAMA British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association
BEM Big Emerging Markets
BEMS Building Energy Management System
BER Board for Engineers' Registration
BER Bit-error ratio
BES Biological Engineering Society
BETX A mixture of benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene and xylenes
BGIRA British Glass Industry Research Association
BHRA British Hydromechanics Research Association (now, formally, BHRA Fluid Engineering)
BIM British Institute of Management
BIML Bureau International de Métrologie Légale
BIOS Basic Input/output System
BIPM Bureau International des Poids et Mesures The International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
BM Building Management
BMCP InstMC's Biomedical Measurement and Control Panel
BMIS British Medical Informatics Society
BMIT Biomedical Informatics Today
BMS Building Management System
BMS Burner management system
BMTA British Measurement and Testing association
BNCIEA British National Committee for International Engineering Affairs
BNCNDT British National Committee for Non-Destructive Testing
BNES British Nuclear Energy Society
BNP Backpropagation neural network
BOD Biochemical oxygen demand
BPCS Basic process control system
BPRA British Pattern Recognition Association
BRA British Robot Association
BSI British Standard Institution
BSL B-rd Solathair an Leictreachais
BTECH Business and Technician Education Council
BTG British Technology Group
BTU British thermal unit
BTW By the Way
C
C Capacitance (electrical)
C Eng Chartered Engineer
C&GLI City & Guilds of London Institute
C&I Control & Instrumentation
CAA Clean Air Act (USA)
CAAA Clean Air Act Ammendments (USA)
CAC Computer-Aided Calibration
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAGR Compound annual growth rate
CAL CAN application Layer
CAM Compliance assurance monitoring
CAN Controller Area Network
CAO Central Applications Office
CAT Computerised Axial Tomography
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
CCP CCP
CCPS Centre for Chemical Proces Safety (AIChE
CCT Co-ordinating Committee: TEng, Eng Tech
CD Commitee draft (IEC)
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
CEM Continuous Emission Monitoring
CEMA Committee of European Promotors of Exhibitions of Measurement and Automation.
CEMS Continuous emissions-monitoring system
CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation
CENELEC ComitŽ EuropŽen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
CEPC Committee of Engineering Professors' Conference
CERL Central Electricity Research Laboratory
CESIO Comité Européen des Agents de Surface et leurs intermeédiaires Organiques
CET Continuing Education and Training
CFR Code of Federal Regulations (US)
CFSAN Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (USA)
CGMP Current good manufacturing practice.
CGPM General Conference on Weights and Measures
CHEMPID ISA's Chemical & Petroleum Division
CHEMS Ceramic hybrid electromechanical systems
CIA Chemical Industries Association
CIBSE Chartered Institute of Building IServices Engineers
CIE Computer, Electrical and Electrical (Plant functions).
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacture
CIMAH Control of Industrial Major Accident Regulations (GB)
CIN China Instrument and Control Society
CIP Clean-in-place
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer
CLD Chemiluminescence detection
CMMS Control Maintenance & Management Systems
CMMS Computerized Maintenance & Management Systems
CMOS Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
CNAA Council for National Academic Awards
CNC Computer Numerical Controller
COD Chemical oxygen demand
COM Common object model
ComCentre UK Centre for Communication Standards in the Manufacturing and Process Industries.
COMMS Customer Oriented Manufacturing Management Systems
COMPUTEC ISA's Computer Technology Division
CONCEET National Conference on Engineering and Training
CoO Common object request broker architecture
CORBA Common object request broker architecture
CORDIS Community Research & Development Information Service.
cp centipoise
CPD Continuing Professional Developement
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRM Customer relationship management
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSC News Chemical Sensors Club News
CSE Control Systems Engineer
CSMA/CD Carrier sense multiple access/collision detection
CSO Combined sewer overflow
cSt centiStoke
CTA ISA's Control Technology and Application training series
CTP Capable-to-promise
CVCP Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principles
CVI C for virtual Instrumentation
CWA Clean Water Actpat (USA)
D
D/A Digital to Analogue
D/DBP Disinfectants & Disinfection By-Products Rule
DA Distribution Automation
DC Direct Current
DCOM Distrubuted component object model
DCOM Distrubuted common object model
DCOM Distrubuted component object model
DCS Distributed Control System
DCU Dublin City University
DD Device description
DDL Device description language
DDS Detailed Design Specification
DES Department of Education and Science
DIAS Distributed Intelligent Actuators and Sensors (Esprit 2172)
DIN The German Standards Institute
DIT Dublin Institute of Technology
DLL Dynamic link liberaries
DMS Distributed Monitoring System
DMS Document management system
DMT Dynamic modeling technology
DNA Distributed interNet Architure
DO Dissolved Oxygen
DOE Department of the Environment
DOE Department of Energy (US)
DOE Design of Experiments
dp Differential Pressure
DPDT Double-pole double-throw
DPG Digital Pressure Gauge
DPU Distributed Processing Unit
DSM Demand-side Management
DSP Digital Signal Processing
DSTP Data socket transfer protocol
DTI Department of Trade & Industry
DTM Difficult to Monitor
dTR Draft technical report (ISA)
DVC Digital Valve Controller
E
EAM Enterprise asset management
EAP InstMC's Educational Activities
EARB Electronics and Avionics Requirements Board
EBR Electronic batch report
EC Engineering Council
ECPD Engineer's Council for Professional Development (now ABET)
ECROC Engineering Council Regional Organisation Committee
EDA Electronic design automation
EDI Electronic data interchange
EEMUA Engineering Equipment and Materials Users' Association
EEUA Engineering Equipment Users' Association (now subsumed in EEMUA.)
EFM Electronic flow measurement
EFNMS European Federation of National Maintenance Societies
EGC Executive group of companies (of EC)
EGS European Geophysical Society
EHT Electric heat tracing
EIAMUG European Intelligent Actuation and Measurement User Group (Esprit 8244)
EIC Energy Industries Council
EIIA European Information Industry Association
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EIT Economies in Transition
EITB Engineering Industry Training Board
ELEOP ISA's Electro Optics Division
EMAS Eco-management Audit Scheme (EU Initiative)
EMC Electromagnetic compatibility
EMF Electromagnetic Flowmeter
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMS Energy Management Systems
EMUG European Map User Group
EN European Norm (Prefixed to European Standards numbers)
Eng Tech Engineering Technician
Eolas (Knowledge) The Irish Science & Technology Agency (Now subsumed in Forbairt)
EOS European Optical Society
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPC Enterprise resource planning
EPIC Exchange Price Information Computer (Code used in Stock Exchange dealings)
EPRI Electric Power Research Institute
EPS European Physical Society
EPTIS The European Proficiency Testing Information System.
ERA Electrical Research Association (now, formally ERA Technology Ltd.)
ERB Engineers' Registration Board (Formally part of CEI)
ERM Enterprise resource management
ERO Engineering Regional Organisation
ERP Enterprise resource planning
ESAC Electrical Systems and Controls
ESB Electricity Supply Board
ESD Emergency shutdown
ESF European Science Foundation
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
ESRI Economic and Social Research Institute
ESTA Energy Systems Trade Association
ETCI The Electro-Technical Council of Ireland
ETQ Inst MC's Education, Training and Qualifications Committee
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU European Union
EVOH Ethylene vinyl alcahol
EWT Embedded web technology
EWW Enterprise-Wide Web
F
F Fellow ( as FInstMC, FRSA etc)
FÁS Foras çiseanna Saothair (Irish traing board)
FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN)
FAT Factory Acceptance Test
FBD Function Block Logic
FCC Federal communications commission
FCS Functional Companion Standard
FCU Field Control Unit
FD Failed dangerous
FD Functional Diagram (implementation dependant)
FDA Food and Drug Administration (USA)
FDDI Fibre distributed data interface
FEA Finite Element Analysis
FEANI Federation Europenne Associations National des Ingenieurs.
FF Fieldbus Foundation
FIACC Five International Associations Coordinatig Committee
FIP Fieldbus internet protocol
flops Floating-point operations per second
FM Frequency modulation
FMS Facility Management Systems
FPAA Field programmable analog arrays
FPGA Field programmable gate array
FPSO Floating production, storage and offloading vessels)
FRD Functional Requirement Diagram (implementation dependant)
FRS Functional Requirements Specification
FS Failed safe
FSO Full-scale output
FT-IR Fourier transform infrared
FT-NIR Fourier transform near infrared
FTP File Transfer Protocol
G
G&C ISA's Glass & Ceramic Division
GAMBICA Group of Association of Manufacturers of British, Instruments, Control and Automation.
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GC Gas chromatography
GC General Council (as in IMEKO)
GCIIG InstMC's Glass and Ceramics Industry Instrumentation Group
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GEO Geostationary earth orbiter
GHz GigaHertz
GLP Good Laboratory Practice
GMP Good Manufacturing Practice
GPA Gas Processors Association
GPL General public license
gpm Gallons per minute
GUI Graphical User Interface
H
H&A ISA's Honours and Awards
HACCP Hazard analysis and critical control points
HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
HAZOP Hazard & Operability Study
HCl Hydrochloric acid
HDA Historical Data Access
HDTV High Definition Television
HEA Higher Education Authority
HEA Higher Education Awards
HeNe Helium neon
HIPS high integrity protection system
HIST Host interoperability support test
HMI Human machine inteface (see also MMI)
HNC/D Higher National Certificate/Diploma
HON Hazardous organic national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants
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HPLC High performance liquid chromatography
HSE Health and Safety Executive (GB)
HSE High-speed Ethernet
html Hypertext meta-language
http Hypertext transfer protocol
I
I Current (electric)
I&C Instrumentation & Control
I&S ISA's Industries & Science Dept.
I/O Input/Output
I/P Current to Pressure (Electropneumatic)
IA Intelligent Actuatot (or Actuation)
IAGS Irish Assessment & Guidence Service
IAIG InstMC's Industrial Analytical Instrumentation Group
IAM Intelligent Actuation & Measurement
IAONA Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance
IAS Interface activity schedule
IAT Intelligent Actuators & Transmitters
IBETA Irish Business Equipment Trade Association
IBM International Business Machines
IC Integrated circuit
ICA Independant computing architecture
ICE Institution of Civil Engineers
IChemE Institution of Chemical Engineers
ICR Information Collection Rule
ICS Industrial Computing Society
ICSA Information and Computing Services Association.
ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics
ICTU Irish Congress of Trade Unions
IDA Industrial Development Authority (now part of Forf‡s which also includes Forbairt)
IDBMS Instrumentation database management system
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEIE Institution of Electrical and Electronics Incorporated Engineers
IEI Institution of Engineers of Ireland
IEng Incorporate Engineer
IERE Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers
IETC Initial Education and Training Committee (of EC)
IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control (Member of FIACC)
IFD Intelligent Field Device
IFIP International Federation of Information Processing (Member of FIACC)
IFORS International Federation of Operational Research (Member of FIACC)
IFSA International Frequency Sensor Association.
IGC Irish Goods Council
IGE Institution of Gas Engineers
IICA Institute of Instrumentation and Control Australia
IIRS Institute for Industrial Research & Standards (now part of Forbairt)
IL Instruction List
ILAB Irish Laboratory Accreditation Board (Now INAB)
ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Conference
ILD Instrument loop diagram
ILM Independent Learning Modules (ISA Book Series)
ILM ISA's Industrial Learning Modules
IM Intelligent Measurement (function)
IMA Institute of Mathamatics and its Application
IMACS International Association for Mathamatics and Computers in Simulation (Member of
IMarE Institute of Marine Engineers
IMC Institute of Management Consultants
IMechE Institution of Mechanical Engineers
IMEKO International Measurement Confederation (Member of FIACC)
IMI Irish Management Institute
IMT Industrial & Materials Technologies
INAB The Irish National Accreditation Board
InstMC Institute of Measurement and Control
INTECH Instrument Technology - Journal of ISA
IOC Instrument-on-a-chip.
IoP Institute of Physics
IP Internet protocol
IP Institute of Petroleum
IPC Integrated pollution control
IPC Irish Prouductivity Council
IPP Integrated product policy
IPPC Integrated pollution prevention and control
IProdE Institution of Production Engineers
IPS Integrated plant system
IPTS International Practical Temperature Scale
IQ Installation Qualification
IQA Irish Quality Association
IR Infrared
IRP ISA's Instructional Resource Package
IS Intrinsically safe
ISA Instruments, Systems and Automation
ISA Integraded systems architecture
ISA Irish Safety Association
ISA Irish Software Association
ISA The Instruments, Systems, and Automation Society (initials originally stood for Instrument Society of America).
ISAI ISA International (now reintegrated into ISA)
ISE Integral of the Squared Error
ISF ISA's Instrument Standards Foundation
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IT Information technology
IT Integrated technician
IT Intelligent Transmitter
ITB Industry Training Board
ITRU Industrial Training and Research Unit
ITS International Temperature Scale
ITTP ISA's Instrument Technician Training Program
ITU International Telecommunications Union
IVP Implied Valve Position
IWEM The Institution of Water and Environmental Management
J
JEC InstMC's Journal Editorial Committee
JEMIMA The Japan Electrical Measurements Manufacturers' Association
JIMS Joint Industrial Measurement Programme (a DTI/SERC Scheme)
JIT Just in Time
JUSE Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers
K
Kbps Kilobits per second
kg/d kilograms per day
kHz kilohertz
KIVI Koninklijk Instituut van Inginieurs (Netherlands)
L
L Inductance (electric)
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Light-addressable potentiometric
LAS Link Active Scheduler
LASER Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
LDAR Leak Detection and Repair
LEP Life extension programme
LFRA Leatherhead Food Research Association
LGC Laboratory of the Government Chemist
LIBS Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
LIMS Laboratory Information Management Systems
LNG Liquified Natural Gas
lpm Litres per minute
LSB InstMC's Learned Society Board
LTA Logic tree analysis
LUT Loughborough University of Technology
LV Low Voltage
LVDT Linear variable differential transformer
M
M&C Measurement and Control - The Journal of InstMC
M&M ISA's Mining & Metallurgy Divisions
M&S ISA's Marketing & Sales Division
Ma Milliampere
MACT Maximum Available Control Technology
MAINT ISA's Maintenance Division
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol (cf EMUG)
MB InstMC's Management Board
MBA Master of Business Administration
Mbps magabits per second
MCC Motor control centre
MEMS Microelectro-mechanical systems
MEMS Microelectro-mechanical sensors
MES Manufacturing Execution Systems
mg/l Milligrams per litre
mgd Million gallons per day
MIPS million instructions per second
MIRA Motor Industry Research Association
MIS Management Information Systems
MITP InstMC's Measurement and Instrumentation Technology Panel
MMI Man-machine Interface (see also HMI Human-machine interface)
MMS Manufacturing Message Specification
MMU Memory mangement unit
MO Member Organisation (of IMEKO)
MPFF Maintenance preventable function failure
MPN Most probable number
MRC Medical Research Council
MRDE Mining Research and Development Establishment
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRP Material Resource Planning
MRPII Manufacturing Resource Planning
MRS Materials Research Society
MS Maintenance System
MS Mass spectroscopy
MS-MUG Microsoft- Manufacturing User Group
MSRB Metrology Standards Requirements Board
MTAC Mid-Atlatic Technology Applications Centre (part of NASA)
MTBF Mean time between failures
MTF Modulation Transfer Function
MTIE Maximum time interval
MTIRA Machine Tool Industry Research Association
MTTA Machine Tool Trades Association
MW Megawatts
MW-NIR Multiwavelength near wavelength near infrared
N
NAB National Advisory Board
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers
NAES Naval Air Engineering Station
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAMAS National Measurement Accreditation Service
NATFHE National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
NATLAS National Testing Laboratory Accreditation Scheme
NBO Networked business object
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NCAP Network capable application processor
NCC National Computing Centre
NCEA National Council for Educational Awards
NCMS National Centre for Manufacturing Sciences (US)
NCSL National Conference of Standards Laboratories
NCVQ National Council for Vocational Qualifications
NDIR Nondispersive infrared
NEB National Enterprise Board (now subsumed in BTG)
NEB Nuclear Energy Board
NEC National Electrical Code
NEC National Exhibition Centre (Britain)
NEL National Engineering Laboratory
NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NERC National Environment Research Council
NETT Network for Environmental Technology Transfer
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
NIFAST National Industrial Fire and Safety Centre
NIHE National Institute for Higher Education (obsolete as these bodies are now Universities)
NIMR National Institute for Medical Research
NIR Near infrared
NISO National Industrial Safety Organisation
NIST National Institute of Standards & Technology
NITEC National Information Technology in Education Centre
nm nanometer
NML National Metrology Laboratory
NMO National Medical Organisation (as in IFAC)
NMS Network monitoring station
NOM Natural Organic Material
NPL National Physical Laboratory
NPRA National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
NRDC National Research Developement Corporation (noe subsumed in BTG)
NSAI National Standards Authority of Ireland
NSF National Science Foundation
NSPS National Standards of Performance for Stationary Sources
NSWC Naval surface warfare center Naval surface warfare center
NTDB National Trade Database
NTU nephelometric turbidity unit
NUMA Non-Uniforn-Memory-Access
O
O&M Operations and Maintenance
OA Open architecture
OASIS Open access same time information system
OCMA Oil Companies' Materials Association (now subsumed in EEMUA)
OCR Optical charicter recognition
OCS Open control system
ODAA Open data acquisition association
ODBC Open data base connectivity
ODVA Open DeviceNet Vendors Association
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OI Operator interface
OIML International Organisation of Legal Metrology
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMAC Open modular architecture controller
OMG Object management group
ONC/D Ordinary National Certificate/Diploma
OOT Object oriented technology
OPC OLE for Process Control
OQ Operational Qualification
ORP Oxidation Reduction Potential
ORSociety Operational Research Society
OS Operating System
OSA Optical Society of America
OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Administration (US)
OSI Open systems interconnect
OSICOM ISA's Open Systems Interconnections Division (now OSID)
OSID ISA's Open Systems Interconnection Division
OU Open University
P
P&A InstMC's Prizes and Awards Committee
P&ID Piping and instrumentation diagram
pa Pascal
PC Personal Computer
PC Programmable Controller (especially before IBM used the term PC for their computer)
PCFC Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council
PCI Perpheral component interconnect
PCL Polytechnics of Central London
PCM Process-control module
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCS Process Control System
PD Proportional-Derivative
PDH Plesiochronous digital hierarchy(i.e. Practically synchronous digital hierarchy)
PE Professional Engineer
PEMS Predictive emissions-monitoring system
PER Packed Encoding Rules
PERA Production Engineering Research Association
PES Programmable Electronic Systems
PFD Probability of Failure on Demand
PFD Process flow diagram
PGS Practical Guide Series (ISA Book Sieries)
pH Hydrogen Ion Concentration (measure of acidity)
PHA Process hazards analysis
PHU Powder handling unit
PI Proportional-Integral
PIC prior informed consent
PID Process & Instrument Design (US)
PID Proportional-Integral-Derivative
PIN Plant information network
PIRS Process infrared system
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PM Particulate matter
PM Preventive maintenance
PMA Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association
PMBC Process-Model Based Controller
PMCD ISA's Process Measurement & Control Division
PMIS++ Process Management Information System
PMM Process monitoring modules
ppb Parts per billion
PPBB PCI-to PCI bridge board
ppm Parts per million
PQ Performance Qualification
PRIAM Pre-Normative Requirements foor Intelligent Actuation & Measurements (Esprit 6188)
PRT Platinum resistance thermometer
PSI Pounds per Square Inch
PSIG Pounds per Square Inch, Gauge
PSM Process Safety Management
PT Pressure transmitter
PTB Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
PTS Proficiency testing scheme
PUC Public Utility Commission
PUPID Pulp & Paper Industries Division
PV Process variable
PWGSC Public Works and Government Services Canada
Q
QA Quality Assurance
QAD Quarter Amplitude Damped
QAP Quality assurance plan
QC Quality Control
QIP Quality Improvement Program
QM Quartz Manometer
QMC Queen Mary College, University of London
QPAT Quad Pulse Output Module
QUB Queen's University Belfast
R
R Resistance (electric)
R&D Research & Development
RAC Regional Advisory Council
RAeS Royal Aeronautical Society
RAPS Remote Applications Protocol Suite
RBC Rotating biological contactor
RBUPC Compendium of Research in British universities, poly technics and colleges \(published
RCM Reliability-centred Maintenance
RDBMS Relational database management system
RDS Royal Dublin Society
REMAP Rehabilitation Engineering Movement Advisory Panel
RF Radio Frequency
RF/EMI Radio frequency and electromagnetic interference
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
RGS Reference Guides Series (ISA Book Series)
RIA Robotic Industries Association
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RLL Relay Ladder Logic
RMC ISA's series Resources in Measurement & Control
RMC Resources for Measurement & Control (ISA Book Series)
RMP Risk management plan
ROM Rigorous online modeling
ROMEO Rigorous online modeling and equation-based optimisation
RPG Report Program Generator
RPP Recovery pilot plant
RS Royal Society
RSA Royal Society of Arts
RSC Royal Society of Chemistry
RTC Regional Technical College
RTD Resistance Thermometer Device or detector
RTU Remote terminal or telemetry unit
S
S&P ISA's Standards & Practices Division
SAMB UK Liaison Committee for Sciences Allied to Medicine and Biology
SARA Superfund Amendments & Re-authorisation Act (USA)
SARTOR Standards and Routs to Registration EC Poluicy Statement)
SAT Site Aceptance Test
SATRO Science and Technology Regional Organisation
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems
SCEM Supply chain event management
SCET Standing Committee on Education and Training (of EC)
SCFH Standard cubic feet per hour
SCM Supply-chain management
SCOTVEC Scottish Technician and Vocational Educational Council
SCPI Standing Committee on Professional Institutions (of EC)
SCPI Standard Commands for Programmable Controllers
SCPM Supply chain process management
SCSST Standing Conference on Schools' Science and Technology
SCTP InstMC's Systems and Control Technology Panel
SDH Synchronous digital hierarchy
SDS Smart Distributed Systems
SEFE Societe Europenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs
SER Sequential Event Recorder
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council
SFADCO Shannon Free Airport Developement Company
SFC Sequential Function Chart
SGT Society of Glass Technology
SHE Safety, Health and Environment
SI International System of Units
SIC Standard Industry Classification
SIG Special Interest Group
SIL Safety Integrity Level
SIRA Scientific Inetrument Research Association (now SIRA Ltd)
SIRCH ISA's Scientific Instrumentation & Research Division
SIREP SIREP - International Instrument Users' Association
SIS Safety Instrumented System
SIU System interface units
SLC Single-loop controller
SLDC Single-loop digital controller
SLPM Standard litres per minute
SMDS Switched multimegabit data service
SME Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SMP InstMC's Systems and Management Panel
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing
SMV Smart multivariable transmitter
SNMP Simple network management protocol
SOC Systems on chip
SOCMI Synthetic Organic Chemicals and Manufacturing Industry
SONET Synchronous optical network
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SP ISA's designation for Standards and Practices sup committies (EG SP75.01 Terminology)
sp gr sp.gr Specific gravity
SPC Statistical Process Control
SPDT Single-pole double-throw
SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumental Engineers (now the International Society for Optical Engineering)
SPP InstMC's Standards Policy Panel
SPP Special Promoted Programme (as od SERC)
SPR Stretegic petroleum reserve
SPR Surface plasmon resonance
SPRINT Strategic Programnme for Innovation and Technology Transfer
SPRT Standard platinum resistance thermometer
SQC Statistical quality control
SQL Structured query language
SRCM Streamlined reliability-centred maintenance
SRS Safety requirement specification
SSR Spread-spectrm radio
ST Structured text li> STEP Standard for exchange of product model data
STP Structural Test Plan
SUT Society for Underwater Technology
SVGA Super video graphics array
SWR SWR Standing wave ratio
T
T&D Transmission & Distribution
TC Technical Committee (as in IMEKO)
TCD Trinity College Dublin
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/internet protocol
TDEV Time deviation
Teagasc (Teaching) Agricultura and Food Developement Authority
TEEC InstMC's Transactions Editorial Executive Committee
TEFC Totally enclosed fan cooled
TELCOM ISA's Telemetry & Communications Division
TENV Totally enclosed non-ventilated
teraflops 1 trillion floating-point operations per second
TMD ISA's Test & Measurement Division
TMR Triple Modular Redundant
TOC Total Organic Carbon
TOX Total Organic Halide
tpaML Trading-partner agreement Mark-up Language.
TT Temperature transmitter
U
UCC University College Cork
UCCA Universities' Cenbtral Council on Admission
UCD University College Dublin
UCG University College Galway
UDC Urban District Council
UFC Universities Funding Council
UHF Ultra high frequency
UI User interface
UK OSCA United Kingdom Optical Sensors Collaborative Association
UKAC United Kingdom Automatic Control Council
UKAPE United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers
UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
UMS Utilities Management Services
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UPS Uninterruptable power supply
URL Universal Resource Locator
UTM Unsafe to Monitor
UUC Ulster University College
UWIST University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
V
V Volts
VAC AC Voltage
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VCM Vibration Conditioning Monitoring
VDC DC Voltage
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
VEC Vocational Education Committee
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VHAPS Volitile Hazardous Air Pollutants
VHLL Very High-level Language
VME Virtual memory environment
VOC Volatile organic compound
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRML Virtual-reality modeling language
VSAT very small aperature terminal
W
W&D Weigh and dispense
WBF World Batch Forum
WDM Wavelength division multiplexing
WECC Western European Calibration Cooperation
WELAC Western European Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation
WES Womens Engineering Society
WETO Western Environmental Technology Office (US)
WFEO World Federation of Engineering Organisations
WIMP Windows, icons, mouse, pointers
WISE Women in Science and Engineering
WRC Water Research Centre
WSL Warren Spring Laboratory
WWID ISA's Water & Wastewater Division
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get!
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Y
YAG yttrium-aluminium-garnet
YEB Young Engineers for Britain (a competition run by the EC)
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