Industrial Process Manager common terminology

Before getting started with the Industrial Process Manager, let's look at some common terminology and acronyms that are used in this content.

Term

Acronym

Definition

Operational Technology

OT

Technology that is used for industrial automation to control physical processes.

Note: Operational Technology is not the Internet of Things (IoT).

International Society of Automation

ISA

Organization that publishes the standards for industrial enterprises, including the ISA-95 equipment model.

Extract, Transform, Load

ETL

Common term that is used for taking data from a source system, transforming it, and then uploading it to a target system.