Glossary
The Industry 4.0, IIOT, & MES Glossary for the Future of Production
In our growing Germanedge glossary you can find various definitions and explanations for the most important terms in the fields of Industry 4.0, IIOT, & MES to provide an initial orientation for key terms and trends in the industry in a brief and comprehensible way. The future of digital production is not that hard to understand – especially if you speak the right language.
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- Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- CIP
- Circular Economy
- Computer-aided Quality Assurance (CAQ)
- Condition Monitoring System
- Control Station
- Demand Planning
- Digital Twin
- DIN EN ISO 9001
- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis)
- Human Machine Interface (HMI)
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- Industry 4.0 (I4.0)
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- ISA 95
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
- Machine data acquisition (MDA)
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
- MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)
- OPC DA (OPC Data Access)
- OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture)
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- PaaS
- PLC (Programmable Logic Control)
- Predictive Analytics + Predictive Manufacturing
- Predictive Maintenance
- Prescriptive Analytics
- Preventive Maintenance
- Production capability
- Production control
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Recipe Management System
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Shop Floor (Management)
- Smart Factory
- SPC (Statistical Process Control)
- Supply Chain Convergence
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Traceability/ Track & Trace
- VDI 5600
- Virtual Reality (VR)
- Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Work Force Management (WFM)