| AAM |
Application Activity Model |
| ABS |
American Bureau of Shipping |
| AEC |
Architecture, Engineering, Construction |
| AIC |
Application Interpreted Construct |
| AIM |
Application Interpreted Model |
| AP |
Application Protocol |
| AP 215 |
Ship Arrangements |
| AP 216 |
Ship Moulded Forms |
| AP 218 |
Ship Structure |
| AP 226 |
Ship's Mechanical Systems |
| AP 227 |
Plant spatial configuration (piping and HVAC) |
| AP 234 |
Ship Operational Logs |
| ARM |
Application Reference Model |
| ATS |
Abstract Test Suite |
| BB |
Building Blocks |
| BOM |
Bill of Materials |
| BSI |
British Standards Institute |
| CALS |
Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support（最近はCommerce At Light Speedという解釈もある） |
| CAM |
Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CALYPSO |
Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Ship Design Process |
| CD |
Committee Draft |
| CDC |
Committee Draft for Comments |
| CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| CTC |
Concurrent Technology Corporation |
| DARPA |
USAのDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DCOM |
Distributed Common Object Model |
| DIS |
Draught International Standard |
| DISC |
Demonstrator of Integrated Ship Controlの略。船舶の安全性、信頼性、効率向上にむけた欧州標準を制定したもの。 |
| DNV |
Det Norske Veritas |
| DOD |
USAのDepartment of Defence |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
| DTI |
Department of Trade and Industry (UK) |
| EB |
Electric Boat |
| ECOM |
Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan下部組織にJapan National Committee for STEPがある。[参考：http://www.ecom.jp] |
| ECRC |
Electronic Commerce Resource Center. DODのJoint Electronic Commerce Program Office(JECPO)がスポンサーであり、CTCとCAMP,Incが主契約してoperate.[参考：http://www.ecrc.ctc.com] |
| EDIMAR |
Electronic Data Interchange for the European MARitime Industry |
| EMSA |
Marine e-Business Standards Association(European Marine STEP Association) |
| ERAM |
Engine Room Arrangements Model |
| ESPRIT |
European Strategic Program for Research in Information Technology |
| ETS |
Executable Test Suite |
| FDIS |
Final Draft International Standard |
| GUID |
Globally Unambiguous Identifier |
| IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission 国際電気標準会議[参考：http://www.iec.ch/］ |
| IEC TC80/WG10 |
Integrated navigation systems for shipsに関する規格を作成するWG.TC80のスコープは、海上の航行設備及び無線設備、データ処理技術の標準化を行うとしている。WG10のスコープは、IMOによって定められたそれら装置の性能標準のテスト方法、テスト結果の扱い方を審議する。 |
| IMS |
Intelligent Manufacturing System |
| Ingalls |
Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries |
| IPO |
IGES/PDES Organization |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| JWG |
Joint Working Group |
| JMSA |
Japan Marine Standards Association |
| KAIST |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| KRISO |
Korea Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering |
| KORDI |
Korea Ocean Research ＆ Development Institute 韓国海洋研究院 |
| LR |
Lloyd's Registry |
| MATHML |
Mathematics Mark-up Language (Uses XML) |
| MariSTEP |
Marine Technology STEP MARITECHの出資をうけたプロジェクト。 |
| MARITECH ASE |
MARITECH Advanced Shipbuilding Enterprise. USAの造船業と政府とのJoint Program。NSRPのExecutive Control Boardがスポンサ。政府側はDARPA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Transportation。1998年に総括（終了）した、商船に関する設計およびプロセス改善を目指したMARITECHのfollow-onプログラム。[参考：http://www.nsrp.org/plan_doc/］ |
| MOSys |
Models for Operational Reliability, Integrity, and Availability Analysis of Ship Machinery Systems |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| NASSCO |
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
| NAVSEA |
Naval Sea Systems Command |
| NIDDESC |
Navy/Industry Digital Data Exchange Standards Committee |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NNS |
Newport News Shipbuilding |
| NSRP |
National Shipbuilding Research Program[参考：http://www.nsrp.org/］U.S. Navyの戦艦のコスト削減およびU.S.の造船業の世界的競争力確立のために、研究開発への造船業の出資に焦点を当て、MARITECH ASEをマネージ。DARPA, The U.S. Navy, The U.S. Department of Transportationと共同。 |
| NWI |
New Work Item |
| O&F |
Outfit and Furnishings |
| PDES |
Product Data Exchange using STEP |
| PDM |
Product Data Management |
| PLCS |
Product Life-Cycle Support. EuroSTEPがSTEP担当として参加[参考：http://www.plcsinc.org] |
| PLIB |
Parts LIBrary, ISO 13584 |
| POSC/CAESAR |
European Effort for Offshore APs |
| ProSTEP |
German STEP consortium in the automotive industry |
| RAM |
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability |
| SC |
Subcommittee |
| SCM |
Ship Common Model |
| SDAI |
STEP Data Access Interface |
| SEASPRITE |
Software Architectures for Ship Product Data Integration and Exchange |
| SEDS |
Standards Enhancement And Discrepancy System |
| SOLIS |
SC4 On-Line Information Service[参考：http://www.nist.gov/sc4/] |
| STEP |
Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data, ISO 10303 |
| TC |
Technical Committee |
| UoF |
Units of Functionality |
| US PRO |
U.S. Product Data Association |
| XML |
EXtensible Mark-up Language (Web data extensions to SGML) |
| WG |
Working Group |
