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The following terms or acronyms pertain to some of the terminology used at
Okuma. Some of the terminology is used throughout the industry while some
pertain only to Okuma machines.
AB0 Axis board
AC1 Axis card
ACC/DEC Acceleration/Deceleration
ACP Animation CRT Processor board
AD Analog to Digital
Address A location of a specific cell in a computers’ memory.
Address bus The wires in a computer that carry signals used to locate a
given memory address.
APT Automatic Programmed Tools
AD-APT Adaption of APT
ALU Arithmetic/Logic Unit
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATC Automatic Tool Changer
APC Automatic Pallet Changer
BB0 Bubble memory section (control software on 5000/5020
series)
BB1 Bubble memory section (part programs on 5000/5020 se-
ries)
BDU Brushless Drive Unit (1st generation Axis drive)
Bit The smallest unit of information in a computer.
BLD Brushless Drive Unit (2nd generation Axis drive)
BLIID Brushless Drive Unit (3rd generation Axis drive)
Bus Set of wires carrying signals around a computer. A conduc-
tor or set of conductors that transmit information between
parts of a computer.
Byte Eight bits
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAP Computer Aided Program
CCP Communication Control Processor board
CCOP Communication Control Optical card
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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