This ObjectType represents an abstract type that any mining equipment, machine, system or service can inherit instance declarations from. Therefore, it acts as a blueprint for more specialized type definitions. For example, any type of mining machine,systemor service shall contain an identification Object of ObjectType MiningEquipmentIdentificationType (see Chapter 7.2 to be able to serve identification information and meta-information about the machine such as model name, manufacturer name or machine images. Therefore, any type of mining machine, system or service may inherit from the MiningEquipmentType ObjectType as this abstract ObjectType already uses the MiningEquipmentIdentificationType. Moreover, both instance declarations of the MiningEquipmentType make use of the AddIn-Model defined in OPC 10000-5. Figure 10 shows the hierarchical and compositional structure of the AddressSpace of this ObjectType.

Figure 10 – MiningEquipmentType Overview

The MiningEquipmentType is formally defined in Table 15.

Table 15 – MiningEquipmentType Definition

Attribute	Value
BrowseName	MiningEquipmentType
IsAbstract	True
References	Node Class	BrowseName	DataType	TypeDefinition	Other
Subtype of the 2:TopologyElementType defined in OPC 10000-100, i.e. inheriting the InstanceDeclarations of that Node.
0:HasAddIn	Object	Components		3:MachineComponentsType	O
0:HasAddIn	Object	MiningEquipmentIdentification		MiningEquipmentIdentificationType	O
Conformance Units
Mining General Equipment Component

The Components Object of type MachineComponentsType is an AddIn-Feature, allowing a structured way to represent hierarchies of machine components. It is usually populated at the time of type instantiation. To inspect the constituent instance declarations of the MachineComponentsType, please refer to OPC 40001-1.

The Identification Object of type MiningEquipmentIdentificationType is an AddIn-Feature, allowing a structured way to represent machine identification and meta-information within the context of an equipment type definition.