| 3rd Party Logistic |
| 3rd Party Parts Provider |
| 3rd Party Service Provider |
| Fourth Generation Language |
| Analog-to-Digital |
| Activity Based Costing |
| Abnormal Condition Management |
| Object-Oriented programming language for Internet |
| Automatic Device Replacement |
| Architect, Engineer & Constructor Firm |
| Abnormal Event Guidance Information System |
| Automatic Guidance Control |
| Automated Guided Vehicle |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Asset Information Management |
| Asset Lifecycle Management |
| American National Standards Institute |
| Advanced Process Control |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| Application Program Interface |
| Analytics and Performance Management |
| Advanced Planning & Optimization |
| Small Software Application or Component |
| Advanced Product Quality Planning |
| Advanced Planning & Scheduling |
| Automatic Storage & Retrieval System |
| Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| Abnormal Situation Management |
| Advanced Ship Notice |
| Application Service Provider OR Average Selling Price |
| American Trucking Association |
| Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms |
| Available-to-Promise |
| Approved Vendor List |
| Business-to-Business |
| Business-to-Consumer |
| Business-to-Manufacturing Markup Language |
| Business Object APIs |
| Building Automation System |
| Batch Control Systems |
| Business Intelligence |
| Batch Management Systems |
| Business Object Document (OAGi) |
| Bill of Lading |
| Bill of Material |
| Build, Own, Operate, Transfer |
| Business Process Automation |
| Business Process Engineering |
| Business Process Execution Language for Web Services |
| Business Process Management |
| Business Process Outsourcing |
| Business Process Reengineering |
| Best Practice Sharing |
| Build to Forecast |
| Build to Order |
| Object Oriented Programming Language |
| Computer Aided Design |
| Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management |
| Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| Controller Area Network |
| Capital Expenditure |
| Computer Aided Process Planning |
| Collaborative Automation System |
| Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| Condition-Based Maintenance |
| Customs and Border Protection |
| Critical Condition Management |
| Collaborative Discrete Automation System |
| Copper Distributed Data Interchange |
| Compact Disk, Read Only Memory |
| Committee Draft Vote |
| Continuous Emissions Monitoring System |
| Committée de European de Normalization Electrotechnique |
| Chief Executive Officer |
| Continuous Flow Manufacturing |
| Chief Financial Officer |
| Code of Federal Regulations |
| Current Good Manufacturing Practices |
| Chemical Industry Data Exchange |
| Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| Chief Information Officer |
| Collaboration, Integration, Optimization |
| Control & Information Protocol OR Common Industrial Protocol |
| Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| Collaborative Logistics Network |
| Common Language Runtime |
| Condition Monitoring |
| Cell Monitoring & Control |
| Collaborative Manufacturing Management |
| Computerized Maintenance Management Systems |
| Carrier Managed Shipment |
| Computer Numerical Control |
| Component Object Model OR Collaborative Operations Management |
| Software Object containing Data and Method |
| Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| Common Open Software Environment |
| Commercial Off-the-Shelf |
| Collaborative Process Automation System |
| Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, & Replenishment |