4IR	Fourth Industrial Revolution	IT/OT	Information Technology/Operational Technology
AAS	Asset Administration Shell	KNN	K-Nearest Neighbors
AI	Artificial Intelligence	L2S	Levels of System Sovereignty
B2MML	Business to Manufacturing Markup Language	LR	Logistical Regression
BatchML	Batch Markup Language	M2D	Machine-to-Device
BMBF	German Federal Ministry of Education and Research	M2M	Machine-to-Machine
BPMN	Specification-Business Process Model and Notation	MDPI	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
CMS	Cyber Manufacturing Systems	ME-S	Manufacturing Ecosystem
CPS	Cyber-Physical Systems	MES	Manufacturing Execution Systems
CPPS	Cyber-Physical Production systems	ML/DL	Machine Learning/Deep Learning
CRM	Customer Relationship Management	MOM	Manufacturing Operation Management
DCS	Distributed Control System	MQTT	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
DMIS	Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard	NBM	Naïve Bayes Multinomial
DMN	Decision Model and Notation	OAGIS	Open Applications Group Integration Specification
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning	OPC-UA	Open Platform Communications-Unified Architecture
EtherCAT	Ethernet for Control Automation Technology	PAC	Programmable Automation Controller
F2H	Factory-to-Human	PACKML	Packaging Machine Language
F2P	Factory-to-Product	PC	Personal Computer
F2SC	Factory-to-Supply Chain	PCA	Principle Component Analysis
FDI	Field Device Integration	PLC	Programmable Logic Controller
FF	Future Factory	PMML	Predictive Model Markup Language
FoF	The Factory of the Future	QIF	Quality Information Framework
FP-Growth	Frequent Pattern-Growth	QR	Quick Response
GPU	Graphical Processing Units	REST	REpresentational State Transfer
H2D	Human-to-Device	RFID	Radio Frequency Identification
HART	Highway Addressable Remote Transducer	RL	Reinforcement Learning
HMI	Human–Machine Interface	SCADA	Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol	SL	Supervised Learning
ICT	Information and communications technology	SVD	Singular Value Decomposition
IEC	International Electro-technical Commission	SVM	Support Vector Machines
IoT	Internet of Things	ISA	International Society of Automation
IIoT	Industrial Internet of Things	UL	Unsupervised Learning
IoS	Internet of Services
ISO	International Organization for Standardization