Category: Technical Glossary

  • 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

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