For general information on the OPC UA Companion Specification Mining and OPC UA in general, please refer to OPC 40560.

As explained in OPC 40560, the machine and system category-level documents serve as an abstraction layer for the types of machinery with similar functionalities. Consequently, this machine and system-level document may also rely on models defined in OPC 40564-1.

Rock crushers are used to process material within the mining process chain. Crushers are typically required ahead of conveyors, shafts or other transport or conveying devices. Crushers are used in underground and surface mining operations if necessary. In operations where crushing is applied, uncrushed material is usually transported to the primary crusher by transporting machine, e.g. rear dump trucks, wheeled loaders, trains, or ore-passes. A feeder device can be used in combination with a crusher to control the material flow into the crusher. In processing plants, different types of crushers are used in different crushing stages depending on the input material and the requirements for the final product. The most common types used within the mining context are jaw and cone crushers. [1, P. 1285]

This document contains OPC UA type definitions for the rock crusher machine.