Why does this matter operationally?
Automation
The use of software-defined logic, AI inference, and closed-loop control to remove human decision-making from routine or time-critical operations. Connectivity is the prerequisite for automation — data must move reliably before any automated response can be trusted.
298 terms
OT Asset Inventory
The practice of systematically identifying, cataloging, and maintaining a current record of every device, controller, and system within an operational technology environment, including device type, firmware version, network location, communication…
Operations
OT Network Architecture
The overall structural design of an operational technology network — its organization into functional zones, the conduits connecting them, and the segmentation separating them — typically based on the layered…
Concept/Framework
OT Visibility
The ongoing capability to observe and understand actual behavior across an operational technology environment — device communication patterns, network traffic, and deviations from established behavioral baselines — typically achieved through…
Concept/Framework
Path Vector Routing
Path Vector Routing is a routing method in which route advertisements include path information so routers can make policy-based decisions and avoid loops.
Protocol
Payload Scheduling
Payload Scheduling is the planning and sequencing of payload activity, resource use, or service windows over time. It controls when payload functions run.
Operations
Performance Management
The operational practice of continuously monitoring, analyzing, and acting on network and system performance metrics to maintain service quality, identify degradation before it becomes service-affecting, and support capacity planning decisions…
Operations
Permissive Logic
Permissive Logic is control logic that confirms conditions are satisfied before allowing an action or sequence to proceed.
Operations
Personnel Tracking Underground
The practice and supporting technology for continuously monitoring the real-time location and status of individual workers within an underground mine, using tags, beacons, or network-derived positioning relayed over the mine's…
Operations
PID Controller
PID Controller is a feedback controller that uses proportional, integral, and derivative terms to regulate a process toward a desired setpoint. It is widely used in control systems.
Operations
Plant-Wide Control Network
Plant-Wide Control Network is the communications infrastructure that connects control systems, devices, and operator systems across an entire plant to coordinate control, monitoring, and supervisory functions throughout the facility.
Concept/Framework