| ADS | Acyclic Data Service |
| AGV | Automated Guided Vehicle |
| AISI | American Iron and Steel Institute |
| AoE | ADS over EtherCAT |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machine |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ATEX | Atmosphčres Explosibles |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CAN-FD | CAN with Flexible Data-rate |
| CiA | CAN in Automation |
| CIP | Clean In Place |
| CPPS | Cyber-Physical Production System |
| CPS | Cyber-Physical System |
| DC | Direct Current |
| DCS | Distributed Control System |
| DIN | Deutsches Institut für Normung |
| DTM | Device Type Manager |
| EAP | EtherCAT Automation Protocol |
| ECD | Electron Capture Detector |
| EDP | EtherCAT Device Protocol |
| EHEDG | European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group |
| EMC | Electromagnetic Compatibility |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESC | EtherCAT Slave Controller |
| FAT | Factory Acceptance Test |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FID | Flame Ionization Detector |
| FPD | Flame Photometric Detector |
| FPM | fluoroelastomerová pryž |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GPIO | General-Purpose Input/Output |
| GUI | Graphic User Interface |
| HART | Highway Addressable Remote Transducer |
| HID | Helium Ionization Detector |
| HiL | Hardware in the Loop |
| HMI | Human Machine Interface |
| HSPA | High Speed Packet Access |
| I40 | Industry 4.0 |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | Ingress Protection |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicators |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LOTO | Lock Out – Tag Out |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution |
| MES | Manufacturing Execution System |
| MPI | Multi Point Interface |
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport |
| NAMUR | Normenarbeitsgemeinschaft für Meß- und
Regeltechnik |
| NDIR | Nondispersive Infrared |
| NIR | Near Infrared |
| NOA | NAMUR Open Architecture |
| nZEB | Nearly Zero-Energy Building |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OPC UA | OPC Unified Architecture |
| OPC | Open Platform Communications |
| ORP | Oxidation-Reduction Potencial |
| OSSD | Output Signal Switching Device |
| PEEK | polyether ether ketone |
| PID | Photo-Ionization Detector |
| PID | proporcionální, integrační, derivační |
| PL | Performance Level |
| PLC | Programmable Logic Controller |
| PoE | Power-over-Ethernet |
| PPC | paroplynový cyklus |
| PTGC | Programmable Temperature Gas Chromatograph |
| PVC | polyvinylchlorid |
| PVDF | polyvinylidene difluoride |
| RFID | Radiofrequency Identification |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
| ROS | Robot Operating System |
| RTU | Remote Terminal Unit |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SC | Standard Connector |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition |
| SD | Secure Digital |
| SIL | Safety Integrated Level |
| SiL | Software in the Loop |
| SIP | Sterilization in Place |
| SIS | Safety Instrumented System |
| SWAS | Steam and Water Analytical System |
| TCD | Thermal Conductivity Detector |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TSN | Time Sensitive Network |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunication System |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| VDMA | Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| WLD | Wärmeleitfähigkeitdetector |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |