| 4M | Man, Machine, Methods, Materials |
| AADL | Architecture Analysis and Design Language |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ANN | Artificial neural network |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| ARIMA | Autoregressive integrated moving average |
| ARMA | Autoregressive–moving average |
| ARMAX | AutoRegressive Moving Average with eXogenous input |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CBR | case-based reasoning |
| CMMS | computerized maintenance management system |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| CUSUM | Cumulative Sum |
| CWT | continuous wavelet transform |
| DC | direct current |
| DCS | distributed control system |
| DP | Dynamic programming |
| DWT | discrete wavelet transform |
| EAM | enterprise asset management |
| EMD | empirical mode decomposition |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| FDI | fault detection and identification |
| FMEA | Failure Mode and Effect Analysis |
| FTA | Fault tree analysis |
| GA | Genetic algorithm |
| HHT | Hilbert–Huang transform |
| HMM | hidden Markov model |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| ICT | Information and communications technologies |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things |
| IMF | intrinsic mode function |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| LSTM | long short-term memory |
| MCSA | Motor Current Signature Analysis |
| MES | Manufacturing Execution System |
| ML | Machine learning |
| MLP | multi-layer perception |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| MTBF | mean time between failure |
| MTTF | mean time to failure |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| OPC UA | OPC Unified Architecture |
| OT | Operational Technology |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PdM | Predictive maintenance |
| PHM | Proportional hazard model |
| PLC | programmable logical controller |
| PLS | partial least squares |
| PSO | Particle swarm optimization |
| PV | photovoltaic |
| QTA | Qualitative trend analysis |
| RBF | radial basis function |
| RCA | Root cause analysis |
| RCM | Reliability-Centered Maintenance |
| RF | Radio frequency |
| RFID | Radio-frequency identification |
| RNN | recurrent neural network |
| RPN | risk priority number |
| RUL | remaining useful life |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition |
| STFT | Short-time Fourier Transform |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| SVR | Support Vector Regression |
| TPM | Total Productive Maintenance |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| WT | Wavelet transform |
| WVD | Wigner–Ville Distribution |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol |