Glossary · field vocabulary
Every term in this material, one line each
The vocabulary shared by the SOP, the certification outline and the console UI. The inline badges that used to sit in the body text are gone: the prose keeps only whole sentences, and the terms are collected here, grouped by theme.
Field method
01From the first shop-floor walk to a working prototype: the roles, phases and verbs this SOP runs on.
- Engagement
- One full on-site customer project: progressed from problem framing through build and industrialization to handoff and exit.
- Engagements
- Engagement list: the entry point for all field projects.
- FDE
- Forward Deployed Engineer: an engineer who embeds at the customer site with the product to deliver solutions fast.
- force
- Force advance: bypasses the block, but gates still evaluate and record; exceptions land in the audit log.
- Gemba
- Site walk: engineers embed on the shop floor to observe real processes, equipment and pain points (maps to the site_survey phase).
- Gemba walk
- From Japanese genba (the actual place): walk the shop floor where value is created, observe real work and talk to operators instead of judging from reports. A core lean/Toyota practice.
- prototype
- Real-data prototype: build a verifiable prototype on the customer's real data, not demo data.
- qualification
- Qualification: confirm the problem is real and the customer has budget and intent.
- SOP
- Standard Operating Procedure; here, the 18-phase project lifecycle.
- stakeholder_map
- Stakeholder map: identify decision-makers, users, blockers and what each wants.
- Zone
- SOP phase group: A pre-engagement → B build → C industrialization → D handoff & exit.
- zones
- Phase groups (Zone): A pre-engagement → B build → C industrialization → D handoff & exit.
Gates & compliance
02The predicates re-evaluated on every phase advance, plus the hard conditions the contract side has to meet.
- FAT/SAT
- FAT = Factory Acceptance Test; SAT = Site Acceptance Test — both need the customer's signature.
- Gate
- Predicate-style gate: re-evaluated on every phase advance (e.g. dual sponsor, FAT/SAT sign-off); a failure blocks the advance and a stale pass never counts.
- Gates
- Gate list: every gate that applies to this project and its status.
- overlay
- Overlay: extra gates that only apply to the industrial profile (factory icon).
- sponsor
- The project's decision-maker/funding stakeholder; this SOP requires a business and an industrial sponsor to jointly confirm success criteria.
- success_criteria
- Success criteria: contractual, measurable acceptance conditions signed off by both sponsors.
- Success criteria成功标准
- Success criteria (success_criteria): contractual, measurable acceptance conditions confirmed by the dual sponsors.
- Gates门禁
- Gates: the gate-check results applying to the current phase (pass/blocked).
Data & corpus
03Scenario configuration and the data itself: what to ingest, how to forge it, and what counts as enough.
- Context
- Project context: a structured set of site, stakeholders, success criteria, SLOs, functional safety and assets.
- Corpus
- Corpus: the sample set for training/eval; forging is the pipeline of cleaning, PII masking, dedup, gap-filling and synthesis.
- JSONL
- One JSON object per line; common for sample and eval data.
- KPI
- Key Performance Indicator; the ticket and manufacturing scenarios use different catalogs.
- manufacturing
- Manufacturing / embodied-robotics scenario: OPC UA, MQTT, ROS2 and other industrial feeds + 6 industrial compliance gates.
- min_samples
- Minimum real samples per category; below it the category is a gap and triggers synthesis.
- PII
- Personally Identifiable Information (name/email/phone); automatically masked during forging.
- Profile
- Scenario profile: defines available connectors, the KPI catalog and applicable gates (ticket support / manufacturing).
- stub
- Stub: interface and data model ready, the real system not yet wired.
- synth_per_gap
- How many synthetic samples to add per gap category.
- ticket
- Support-ticket scenario: CSV/Zammad/Salesforce/MySQL ingestion, no industrial gates.
- Stakeholder干系人
- Stakeholder: project roles (decision-maker, users, ops, union…) and their success metrics.
- Corpus forging语料锻造
- Corpus forging: raw data (CSV etc.) → PII masking → dedup → quality gate → coverage analysis → targeted synthesis → report.
Industrial & robotics
04Shop-floor data sources, protocols and production-line metrics.
- DexNet
- UC Berkeley grasp-planning network and benchmark dataset; a common reference for pick success.
- Historian
- Time-series historian: stores process history (temperature, takt, alarms…).
- ISA-95
- The international standard for enterprise-to-shop-floor integration; the basis of the MES data model.
- MES
- Manufacturing Execution System: shop-floor data source for work orders, quality and downtime.
- MQTT-Sparkplug
- MQTT: lightweight pub/sub protocol; Sparkplug B standardizes its industrial payload semantics.
- MTBF
- Mean Time Between Failures (hours); higher is more reliable.
- OEE
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness = availability × performance × quality; world-class ≥ 0.85.
- OPC
- Tencent Cloud OPC (Other Professional Certification): the product-competency exam for channel partners.
- OPC UA
- Unified industrial-automation communication protocol; reads PLC tag data directly.
- pick success
- Robotic pick success rate; DexNet benchmark ≈ 0.80.
- PLC
- Programmable Logic Controller: the control unit of production equipment.
- ROS2 Bag
- ROS 2 recording/replay format, common for robot trajectories and sensor data.
Safety & regulation
05Functional-safety levels, deployment shapes and labour co-determination — the compliance that becomes gates.
- air-gapped
- Air-gapped deployment: physically isolated from external networks; installs and updates go through an offline checklist.
- CE
- EU conformity marking: the product meets the relevant EU directives.
- EU AI Act
- EU AI Act: risk-tiered AI regulation; high-risk uses require compliance assessment and documentation.
- IEC 61508
- Functional-safety standard for E/E/PE systems; defines SIL levels.
- ISO 10218
- Industrial robot safety standard: risk-assessment requirements for collaborative and regular robots.
- ISO 13849
- Machinery functional-safety standard; defines Performance Levels PL / PLr.
- OT/IT separationOT/IT 隔离
- OT/IT separation: isolating the shop-floor operational-technology network from the corporate IT network — a common industrial security requirement.
- PLr
- Required Performance Level (ISO 13849); PL is the level actually achieved.
- SIL
- Safety Integrity Level (IEC 61508).
- works_council
- German Works Constitution Act (BetrVG §87) co-determination: deployments involving employee monitoring/performance need union consent.
- Functional safety功能安全
- Functional Safety: standards ensuring machinery/control systems stay safe under failure (PL/SIL levels).
- Works council工会
- Employee representative body; in Germany, deployments involving employee monitoring/performance require its co-determination (works_council gate).
- Air-gapped气隙
- Air-gapped: a closed network physically isolated from external networks.
- Shift system班次
- Shift system (e.g. 3 shifts); 24/7 lines need shift-handover integration (shift_handover gate).
Operations & exit
06After go-live: service commitments, drift monitoring, the backflow flywheel, and the exit.
- bad case
- Bad-case mining: find poorly performing samples from eval results, then classify and attribute them.
- drift
- Drift: data distribution/quality shifting over time and degrading the model; monitor it to trigger retraining.
- Flywheel
- Flywheel: field events flow back as corpus with weekly incremental retraining — the loop that makes the system better the longer it runs.
- on-call
- Rotating duty response: alerts route to whoever is on call so someone can act around the clock.
- runbook
- Operations runbook: failure-handling steps, rollback plans and escalation paths.
- SLA
- Service Level Agreement: the external contractual commitment, usually backed by several SLOs.
- SLO
- Service Level Objective: an internal, measurable quality commitment, e.g. '99% of tickets first-responded within 5 minutes'.
- Alert route告警路由
- Alert route: the channel/on-call group an SLO breach pages (alert_route).
- Drift漂移
- Drift: data distribution/quality shifting over time and eroding the model; a monitoring item.
- Handoff package移交包
- Handoff package: the full artifact set delivered to the customer at project end — runbook, model, monitoring config, known limitations and more.
- Flywheel飞轮
- The data flywheel: event backflow → corpus increment → retraining; the longer a project runs, the better the model fits that customer.
Platform & tooling
07AgentScope runtime concepts, external systems, and the feature names inside the workbench.
- ACA
- Alibaba Cloud Associate: the entry-level LLM engineer certification (aca13).
- ACP
- Alibaba Cloud Professional: the advanced LLM engineer certification (acp26).
- AgentState
- AgentScope's agent state object; the permission context is injected into the runtime through it.
- RAG
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation: retrieve from a knowledge base first, then generate the answer.
- Salesforce
- CRM platform; here a customer/ticket data source.
- SubAgentTemplate
- AgentScope's sub-agent blueprint: a template with a preset role, tools and prompt.
- Toolkit
- AgentScope's tool collection: binds connectors/functions as callable agent tools.
- Zammad
- Open-source helpdesk/ticketing system.
- Workbench工作台
- Workbench: cross-project overview — global stats, project matrix, recent skills.
- Skills library技能库
- Skills library: reusable methodology/field notes in research / implementation / optimization / methodology.
- Consolidate沉淀
- Consolidate field experience into a reusable skill for later retrieval and reuse.
- Journal现场记录
- Journal: research / implementation / optimization field notes; one click turns them into skill drafts.