Category: Technical Glossary
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EDMS
EDMS CERNs central database system to manage documents and their lifecycle (Draft, Under Approval, … etc). All LHC erasystems are (supposed to be) documented there. Used as a generic service by the group to store documents which are not updated very often and used for versioning. Engineering Data Management Service
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OPC
OPC An industry standard for communicating with/between devices, servers and clients. This is open and non-patented and is a basis of “industry 4.0”. See https://opcfoundation.org/ . Historical versions are OPC-DA (windows only, deprecated) and OPC-UA (unified architecture). The implementations of OPC-UA come as “toolkits” which are also commercially available. One of the major communication protocols
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EDS
EDS File which contains information of a specific type of Ethernet-IP device and its configuration (copied from Dictionary, Abbreviations, Acronyms and Shortcuts) Ethernet-IP Data Sheet
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OWS
OWS Operator Work Station
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RDB
RDB In WinCC OA SCADA context is used to refer to Oracle database where WinCC OA measurements/data is being stored (copied from Dictionary, Abbreviations, Acronyms and Shortcuts) Relational DataBase
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TIM
TIM Technical Infrastructure Monitoring
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DIP
DIP Data Interchange Protocol
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CSAM
CSAM CERN Safety Alarm Monitoring
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RDA
RDA Remote Device Access
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CMW
CMW A general term to identify a software layer, and it's components, which is above "hardware services" and below "client software". Therefore CMW is in-between. Usually this software comes as servers. Controls Middleware