The ElementMonitoringType is intended to be a supertype for all monitoring information that is specific to a particular element within the machine tool. An element doesn’t have to be a physical component. Examples for such elements are NC channels or spindles. It is an abstract type, meaning it is not instantiated, only the subtypes are.

The ElementMonitoringType is formally defined in Table 18.

Table 18 – ElementMonitoringType Definition

Attribute

Value

BrowseName

ElementMonitoringType

IsAbstract

True

References

Node Class

BrowseName

DataType

TypeDefinition

Other

Subtype of the 0:BaseObjectType defined in OPC 10000-5 i.e. inheriting the InstanceDeclarations of that Node.

0:HasProperty

Variable

Name

0:String

0:PropertyType

M, RO

Conformance Units

The Name property refers to a name of the element.