The BaseMaterialType provides the basic material information and is formally defined in Table 44.

Table 44 – BaseMaterialType Definition

Attribute	Value
BrowseName	BaseMaterialType
IsAbstract	false
References	Node Class	BrowseName	DataType	TypeDefinition	Other
Subtype of the BaseObjectType defined in OPC 10000-5, i.e. inheriting the InstanceDeclarations of that Node.
0:HasComponent	Variable	X	0:Double	0:AnalogUnitType	Optional
0:HasComponent	Variable	Y	0:Double	0:AnalogUnitType	Optional
0:HasComponent	Variable	Z	0:Double	0:AnalogUnitType	Optional
0:HasComponent	Variable	Weight	0:Double	0:AnalogUnitType	Optional
0:HasProperty	Variable	Description	0:LocalizedText	0:PropertyType	Optional
0:HasProperty	Variable	Location	LimitedString64	0:PropertyType	Mandatory
0:HasProperty	Variable	MaterialIdentifier	LimitedString64	0:PropertyType	Mandatory
0:HasProperty	Variable	Identifier	LimitedString64	0:PropertyType	Optional

Description is a human-readable description of the article.

Location defines source or destination location of the material, depending if it is an input or an output material.

MaterialIdentifier defines an Identifier to identify the Type of the item (item number).

Identifier defines a unique identifier for the specific component (e.g. the Serial number, Sheet-Id).

X defines the dimension of the material along the X axis of the machine coordinate system. For special shapes the surrounding rectangle is used.

Y defines the dimension of the material along the Y axis of the machine coordinate system. For special shapes the surrounding rectangle is used.

Z defines the dimension of the material along the Z axis of the machine coordinate system. For special shapes the surrounding rectangle is used.

Note: X,Y,Z are modelled separate, because subtype may only use a subset of X;Y,Z.

Weight defines the mass of the item. If possible the engineering unit should be kilograms.