4 General information to 40566-1: M&S Services General
4.1 Introduction to the OPC UA Companion Specification Mining

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

4.2 Introduction to the Monitoring and Supervision Services General

The Monitoring and Supervision Services General document, OPC 40561-1, serves as an abstraction layer to all services and systems that are classified as monitoring and supervision services or systems. Examples of such are SCADA or visualization systems. Therefore, it contains parent types and common features that are shared by two or more monitoring and supervision services or systems. Documents detailing the monitoring and supervision services or systems, that are part of the OPC 40561 multi-part documents, are given in Table 1.

Table 1 – Subdocuments of OPC 40566 M&S Services

Document Name

Number

Description

General (This document)

OPC 40566-1

General Information about Monitoring and Supervision Services

This document contains common OPC UA type definitions to all monitoring and supervision services and systems.