Glossary

An access group (formerly called user group) is a category of OSM users that share the same access permissions in AVEVA Operational Safety Management. A single user can belong to many different access groups.

An area is a designated physical area within a site. A site usually contains multiple areas.

Previously in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management, an Asset referred to a physical site location, such as plant, site, location. This is now called a Site.

Attachment classes are file types that can be added as attachments to entities, such as files and URLs.

The AVEVA™ Asset Information Management (AIM) cloud-based service is a solution for managing, accessing, visualizing, and comparing technical data and documents from multiple sources. AIM provides a centralized interface for full visualization of an entire digital asset collection associated with an industrial site—including schematics, P&IDs, object attributes, 3D models, and isometrics. Behind the scenes, the AIM service transforms this data from multiple information systems into trusted resources for use in other software projects, while delivering operational safety, asset information integrity, and reduced risk on data.

AVEVA Engage is an interactive touch-driven mobile application for digital assets.

AVEVA NET Gateway enables enterprise-wide access to engineering, design, project, or business data.

AVEVA Workflow Management is an advanced workflow management system software.

A Collection contains one or more collection groups of work permits. Each group of work permits in a Collection will have a set of properties.

A Competency is a specific licensed skill or qualification that is necessary to do a job.

A Discipline is a category of workers who work in the same professional area. For example, operators, control room, or project managers.

An Enterprise Asset Management system handles the management and maintenance of physical assets of an organization throughout each asset's lifecycle.

Enterprise Information and Workflow Model (EIWM) format is an AVEVA format for defining data used in XML Schema.

An entity in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management refers to a class of items, such as work permits, work orders, isolation plans, or isolation lists. One instance of an entity refers to one work permit. Some entities can have a workflow with statuses and processes.

An Experience Transfer is a set of events from a shift category that happened within a certain time period. A supervisor can select a subset of events to include in an Experience Transfer. Multiple subsets can be selected from the same shift category with different time queries.

An External Security Access Control (SAC) solution is one that is provided by a third-party software. In Operational Safety Management, this security function can be provided with an integration to NetNordic SHIELD.

A Functional Location is an SAP term that is the same as Tag in Operational Safety Management.

An Isolation List is a predetermined set of sequential steps that must be followed to isolate a system that will be worked on. An Isolation List must be part of an Isolation Plan.

An isolation plan is a work plan to ensure that a certain piece of equipment has been isolated from other systems.

For example, an item of equipment has both water input and electricity input. Both of these systems need to be turned off before any work can be performed on the equipment.

An isolation plan usually contains one or more isolation lists of different types, such as an electrical isolation list to turn off the electricity and then turn it back on after work on the equipment is complete.

An isolation point is a physical point in the schematic where action occurs, such as disconnection points. For example, a cable has two disconnection points: The end that connects to power and the end that connects to the equipment.

A Lesson Learned is a piece of experience or knowledge that has been acquired while doing work.

Life cycle refers to series of changes that an entity moves through from the beginning of the workflow to the last status.

A piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is a detailed diagram that shows piping and process equipment in instrumentation and control devices. P&IDs are used by Isolation Lists.

A plot plan is an architecture or engineering plan drawing that typically shows buildings, utilities, and equipment layout of a site. Plot plans are also known as site plans. Plot plans are used by Work Permits to show a plotted point for all Work Permits in an area.

Progvalues (short for programming value) in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management describe a specific behavior, depending on status of entity. They are used to configure entity behavior.

A QR Code is a certain type of matrix barcode or two-dimensional barcode. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached.

A Risk Assessment is the result of breaking down a job into individual tasks and analyzing the risk of each individual task. A calculation is made for the overall risk assessment of the entire job.

Security Access Control (SAC) is a security technique that regulates who can view or use resources in a computing environment. It is a fundamental concept in security that minimizes risk to the business or organization.

• Internal SAC - An example of internal SAC is user group permissions.

• External SAC - An example of an external SAC is AVEVA Avantis or NetNordic SHIELD.

A Safe Job Analysis (SJA) is a procedure that integrates accepted safety practices into a particular task or job operation.

SAP is a software developed by the German company SAP SE. AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management can integrate against SAP as a source of work orders.

NetNordic SHIELD is a third-party software that provides Security Access Control (SAC) to work permits that need authorization.

Shift Handover is the process of handing over a shift to the next shift of workers and communicating all relevant information.

A Site in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management refers to a physical site location, such as plant, site, location. This was formerly called Asset.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.

Single sign-on (SSO) is an access control feature of multiple related, yet independent, software systems. With this feature, a user can log in with a single ID and password to gain access to any of several related systems.

In AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management, an entity moves through the workflow from one status to another. The dynamic workflow is made up statuses and workflow actions.

A Supplementary Form is custom form that is created in HTML5 format and uploaded to Operational Safety Management—so that you can use the unique forms that your business requires inside AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management.

A system is made up of similar parts that form an interconnected network that reaches across physical areas in a site. For example, the electrical system or the plumbing system.

The term tag in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management represents a unique name to identify an equipment part.

Tags use a naming convention, such as 21FO6335 or PS-U20-0429.

In an EAM system, a tag can be called an asset or functional location.

A User Group (now called Access Groups) is a category of OSM users that share the same access permissions in AVEVA Operational Safety Management. A single user can belong to many different user groups.

The dynamic workflow in AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management is a defined process flow that is made up Statuses and Processes.

A workflow action is an operation that moves an entity from one status to another. The dynamic workflow is made up statuses and actions.

A Work Order is a description for a piece of work. All work orders that come into the AVEVA™ Operational Safety Management system are created in another system, such as SAP or IBM Maximo. Work Orders inside Operational Safety Management are read-only, but you can attach other entities.

A Work Permit is a document that gives a worker the permission to carry out a job within a specific time frame. Work Permits are needed to perform a restricted activity, such as entering a restricted area, or using a restricted piece of equipment. There can be many types of Work Permits.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

A zone is a designated logical area in a site.