List of Acronyms

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ACM Application change management

ADK Application Development Kit

ALEX Active Library Explorer

API Application program interface

ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit

AXE Public telephone exchange

BL Baseline

BOM Bill of material

BS Base station

BU Business unit

CAD Computer-aided design

CAE Computer-aided engineering

CAM Computer-aided manufacturing

CAS Central article and structure

CASF CAS Interface

CASL CAS Lists

CASP CAS Production

CASR CAS Register

CCB Configuration control board

CDM Collaborative Data Management

CI Configuration item

CM Configuration management

CMM Capability Maturity Model

COTS Commercial off the shelf

CPC Collaborative product commerce

cPDm Collaborative product definition management

CPM Collaborative product management

CR Change request

CRM Customer relationship management

CRM/PRM Customer/partner relationship management

CVS Concurrent versions system

DELTA Documentation environment library and transfer aid

DMS Document management system

DR Defect report

DSM Deep submicron

DWAXE Document products for AXE

ECM Engineering change management

EDA Electronics design automation

EIA Electronic Industries Association

ePDm Electronic product data management

ER Enhancement request

ERP Enterprise resource planning

FAQ Frequently asked question

FOA First office application

FPGA Field programmable gate array

GASK General archive system for communication

GMSC Gateway exchange

GOLF Global order inventory invoicing system

HDL Hardware description languages

HTML Hypertext markup language

HTTP Hypertext transfer protocol

IDE Integrated development environment

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

ILS Integrated logistic support

INCOSE International Council on Systems Engineering

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

J2EE Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

KBE Knowledge-based engineering

MHS Modification Handling System

MPS Manufacturing and Planning System

MQL Matrix Query Language

MRD Marketing requirement document

MRP Manufacturing resource planning

MRS Main requirement specification

NC Numerical control

PAC Product approval committee

PCB Printed circuit board

PDC Personal digital cellular

PDF Portable definition file

PDM Product data management

PDMIC Product Data Management Information Center

PIM Product information management

PLC Product lifecycle

PLM Product life cycle management

PMSC Packet mobile switching center

PPDC Packet data PDC

PRI Product revision information

PRIM Product information management

PSM Product structure management

PSTN Public switched telephone network

RCS Revision control system

RFQ Request for quotation

RM Requirement management

RTL Register transfer level

RTM Requirement Traceability Management

SCCI Source code control interface

SCCS Source code control system

SCM Software configuration management

SDAI Standard Data Access Interface

SDRC Structural Dynamics Research Corporation

SE Systems engineering

SGML Standard generalized markup language

SIT System integration and test

SMS-C Short message center

SoC System on chip

SQL Standard query language

SRM Software Release Manager

STD State transition diagram

STEP Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data

SWAXE Software for AXE

TDM Team data manager

TR Trouble report

TTC Time to customer

TTM Time to market

TTS Theory of Technical Systems

UCM Unified change management

VMSC Voice mobile switching center

VPDM Virtual product data management

VSS Visual SourceSafe

WBS Work breakdown structures

WCM Web content management

WebDAV Web-distributed authoring and versioning

WIP Work in process

WWW Worldwide Web

XML Extensible markup language

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