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A | |
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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! | X |
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YAG | yttrium-aluminium-garnet | YEB | Young Engineers for Britain (a competition run by the
EC) | Z |
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