Terminology - ABB M101 Manual

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1.3. Terminology

List of the terms, acronyms, abbreviations and definitions that the document uses.
Abbreviation
COTS
DCS
Eth.
FD
GPS
HMI
LVS
2
Term
Alarm
Bus Local
Commercial off the
shelf
Distributed Control
System
Ethernet
Event
Field Device
Global Positioning
System
Hardware Local
Human Machine
Interface
Low voltage switch-
gear
Description
Alarm is defined as status transition from any
state to abnormal state. Status transition to
abnormal state can be data crossing over the
pre-defined alarm limit.
A Control Access term describing that the M10x
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) technol-
ogy. The Ethernet standard specifies the physical
medium, 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 pro-
tection)
System to detect local position, universal time
and time zone, GPS technology provides accu-
rate time to a system
A Control Access term describing that the M10x
accepts its commands from the Hardwired in-
puts, when the respective Local control input is
set to true.
Generic expression
A factory built assembly built to conform with
IEC 61439-1
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