Glossary
Generic industry acronyms
ADP - Automatic Drawing Production
AFD - Approved for Design
AMC - Annual Maintenance Contract
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
BIM - Building Information Modelling
BPO - Business Process Outsourcing
BS - British Standards
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CBT - Computer-based training
CoG - Center of Gravity
CWP - Construction Work Package
D&ID - Ducting and Instrumentation Diagrams
DAC - Data Access Control
DCS - Distributed Control System
DEC - Design and Engineering Contractors
DIMS - Document Information Management System
DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung / German Institute for Standardisation
DLL - Dynamic Link library
DMRS - Data Management and Retrieval System
DRC - Design Rule Checker
E&I - Electrical & Instrumentation
ECM - Enterprise Content Management
EDMS - Electronic Document Management System
EN - Europäische Normen / European Standards
EPC - Engineering, Procurement and Construction
EQ - Equipment
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
ESS - Employee Self Service
EWP - Engineering Work Package
FEED - Front End Engineering and Design
FID - Final investment decision
FIX - Fabrication interface XML
FPSO - Floating Production Storage and Offloading
FRS - Functional Requirements Specification
GA - General Arrangement
GAD - General Arrangement Drawing
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
GRE - Glass Reinforced Epoxy
H2S - Hydrogen Sulfide
H&S - Hangers & Supports
HF - Hot Fix
HVAC - Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
HVC - High Value Centre
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
IDF - Isometric Data File
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IFC - Issued For Construction
IFD - Issued For Design
ILD - Instrument Loop Drawing
IM - Information Management
IO - Input/output
ISA - International Society of Automation
ITP - Inspection and Test Plan
IWP - Installation Work Package
JIS - Japanese Industrial Standards
LMS - Learning Management System
M&E - Mechanical & Electrical
MD - Man Days
MM - Material Management
MOC - Management Of Change
MSA - Master Services Agreement
MSS - Managed Services Scope
MTO - Material Take-Off
NGL - Natural Gas Liquids
NPS - Nominal Pipe Size
O&G - Oil and Gas
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
OOTB - Out of the box
P&ID - Piping and Instrumentation Diagram
PBS - Plant Breakdown Structure
PCF - Piping Component Files
PMC - Project Management Contractor
POD - Piping Object Data
RACI - Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed
RDBMS - Relational DataBase Management System
SAT - Standard ACIS Text
SCORM - Shareable Content Object Reference Mode
SLA - Service Level Agreement
SLD - Single Line Diagram
SOC - Service Operation Centre
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
SOW - Statement of Work
SQL - Structured Query Language
SSO - Single sign-on
STP/STEP - Standard for the Exchange of Product Data
STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
T&M - Time & Material
Spec - Specification
UAT - User Acceptance Test
UDA - User Defined Attributes
WBS - Work Breakdown Structure
WSDL - Web Services Description Language
Vendor specific acronyms
3DSD - 3D Symbol Designer
ABA - Area Based ADP
ACR - Access Control Rights
ADP - Automatic Drawing Production
AIR - Assembly Information Rule
AIM - AVEVA Information Management
ALL - PDMS all items
APEX - Application Express
APPDAR - Application Data Area – Assembly Area Element
APPLDA - Application Data – Assembly
APPLDW - Application Data World – Assembly World
APN - Amazon Partner Network
ASL - Access, Stairs and Ladders
AVD - Azure Virtual Desktop
AWS - Amazon Web Services
BIR - Business Intelligence Reports
BRAN - PDMS branch type
BTSE - Bolt Sets
CATA - Catalogue
CATE - PDMS category element
CDW - Consolidated Data Warehouse
CIP - Customer Interface Program
CMPD - Component Data element
CMPW - Component Weight
CMF - Configuration Management File
COCO - Connection Connection
DAC - Data Access Control
DATAL - Data Listing File, PDMS neutral file format
DB - PDMS Database
DDAT - Design Data
DDL - Data Dictionary Library
DDT - Data Dictionary Templates
DESI - Design
DICE - Data Integrity Checker
DRC - Design Rule Checker
E3D - Everything 3D
E&PI - Engineering and Procurement Interface
EE Raceway - Electrical Engineer Raceway
EIT - Electrical, Instrument and Telecom
ENS - Engineering Numbering System
EQUI - PDMS term denotes equipment type
EVARS - Environmental Variables in PDMS
GRN - Goods Received Note
ISF - SmartPlant Instrumentation Specification File
IWA - Integrated Windows Authentication
LIS - Lisega
LOV - List of Values
MCT - Multi-Cable Transit
MDB - Multiple Databases
MDP - Material Data Publisher
MDR - Model Data Reuse
MDS - Multi Discipline Support
MDU - PDMS project code
MHE - Materials Handling Edition
MIN - Material Issue Notification
MIR - Material Issue Report
MRN - Material Return Note
MRR - Material Receiving Report
MSCM - Material Supply Chain Management
MTR - Material Transfer Report
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OPI - Open Procurement Interface
PCD - Piping Commodity Data
PDMS - Plant Design Management System
PDS - Plant Design System
PICS - Physical Count Sheets
PIPE - PDMS pipe type
PMC - Piping Material Class
PML - (Intergraph) Parametric Modelling Language
PML - (AVEVA) Programmable Macro Language
PMS - Piping Material Specification
PSL - PS Designer
PSR - PowerSoft Report
RCS - Rule Checker Service
RDB - Reference Database
RIS - Relational Interface System
RTI - Return to Inventory
S3D - Smart 3D
SAW - Service Anywhere
SCN - Supplier Clearance Note
SCTN - PDMS term denotes section type
SDB - Standard Database
SDD - Size Dependent Data
SDL - Short Description Library
SDTE - Detailing Texts Element
SIO - Intergraph Smart Interop Publisher
SITE - module in SmartPlant Materials
SITE - PDMS site type
SKEY - Symbol Key
SM3D - SmartMarine 3D
SMTE - Material Texts Element
SP3D - SmartPlant 3D
SPC - SmartPlant Construction
SPE - SmartPlant Enterprise
SPECON - software module in PDMS software
SPEL - SmartPlant Electrical
SPEM - SmartPlant Engineering Manager
SPF - SmartPlant Foundation
SPI - SmartPlant Instrumentation
SPIOP - SmartPlant Interop Publisher
SPM - SmartPlant Materials
SPMat - SmartPlant Materials
SPMRD - SmartPlant Materials Reference Data
SPO - SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators
SPP&ID - SmartPlant P&ID
SPR - SmartPlant Review
SPRD - SmartPlant Reference Data
SRD - Smart Reference Data (previously SmartPlant Reference Data/SPRD)
SRN - Shipment Release Notes
SSIS - SQL Server Integration Service
SSK - SmartSketch
SSRS - SQL Server Reporting Service
STRU - PDMS term denotes structure type
TEF - The Engineering Framework
TMPL - Template element
VALV - PDMS valve type
VB - Visual Basic
VTL - Validation, Transformation & Loading
WAM - WorkSpaces Application Manager
WCF - Windows Communications Foundation
ZONE - PDMS zone type