Glossary

ADAM

Active Directory Application Mode (LDAP Server)

ADAM is a licensed component of the Windows 2003 R2 edition. It cannot be purchased separately. It can be downloaded from Microsoft's website and installed on Windows XP and Windows 2003 servers.

CoDeSys

3S Soft PLC

Data source

A device from/to which process data can be read and/or written.

EPAM3

Easy Page Machine Version 3

EPAM4

Easy Page Machine Version 4

EXCEL

Microsoft Office Excel

HMI

Human Machine Interface

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

Communication driver

Implements the communication of variables between EPAM and a data source, e.g. PLC

Communication channel

Communication between EPAM and a data source.

LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an application protocol from network technology. It enables the polling and modification of the information of a directory service (a database hierarchically distributed in the network) via an IP network.

MMI        

Man Machine Interface

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

Qt

Application and UI framework (Nokia)

RTS

RunTime System

PLC        

Programmable logic controller

Target        

Target system

TwinCat

Beckhoff Soft PLC