Terminology - ABB LVS Digital Manual

T ERM IN OLOGY
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Terminology

List of the terms, acronyms, abbreviations and definitions that the document uses.
Abbreviation
COTS
DCS
Eth.
FD
GSD file
GPS
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Term
Alarm
Bus Local
Commercial off the
shelf
Distributed Control
System
Ethernet
Event
Field Device
Geräte Stamm Datei
(German abbrevia-
tion)
Global Positioning
System
Hardware Local
Description
Alarm is defined as status transition from any
state to abnormal state. Status transition to ab-
normal state can be data crossing over the pre-
defined alarm limit.
A Control Access term describing that the UMC
accepts its commands from a device on the
switchgear control network, e.g. the Web Inter-
face, MView.
Commercial off the shelf product, term to de-
scribe products available on the market, ready to
use
See also PCS
Ethernet is a local area network (LAN) technology.
The Ethernet standard specifies the physical me-
dium, access control rules and the message frames.
An event is a status transition from one state to
another. It can be defined as alarm, if the state is
defined as abnormal or as warning as a pre-alarm
state.
Term for devices connected to the Fieldbus (e.g.
motor control units or circuit breaker protection)
A hardware description file for a PROFIBUS-DP or
PROFIBUS-DP/V1 slave type
System to detect local position, universal time
and time zone, GPS technology provides accurate
time to a system
A Control Access term describing that the UMC
accepts its commands from the Hardwired inputs,
when the respective Local control input is set to
true.
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