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