The AFCType provides a representation of an armoured face conveyor machine and is a sub-type of the MiningEquipmentType as defined in Figure 1. Importantly, it contains a ParameterSet to monitor all relevant parameters of the equipment.

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Figure 1 – Overview AFCType

The AFCType is formally defined in Table 1.

Table 1 – AFCType Definition

Attribute

Value

BrowseName

AFCType

IsAbstract

False

References

Node Class

BrowseName

DataType

TypeDefinition

Other

Subtype of the MiningEquipmentType defined in OPC 40560, i.e. inheriting the InstanceDeclarations of that Node.

0:HasAddIn

Object

4:MiningEquipmentIdentification

4:MiningEquipmentIdentificationType

M

0:HasComponent

Object

2:ParameterSet

0:BaseObjectType

M

Conformance Units

AFC Functional Variables

AFC Methods

The components of the AFCType have subcomponents which are defined in Table 2.

Table 2 – AFCType Subcomponents

BrowsePath

References

NodeClass

BrowseName

DataType

TypeDefinition

Others

2:ParameterSet

0:HasComponent

Variable

AFCState

AFCStateEnum

AFCStateType

M, RO

2:ParameterSet

0:HasComponent

Variable

Load

0:Double

0:AnalogUnitRangeType

M, RO

The component variables of the AFCType have Attributes defined in Table 3.

Table 3 – AFCType Attribute values for child Nodes

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Value Attribute

Description Attribute

2:ParameterSet

Load

0:EngineeringUnits

NamespaceUri: http://www.opcfoundation.org/UA/units/un/cefact

UnitId: 20529

DisplayName: %

Description: percent

This is the EngineeringUnit of the conveyor load.

2:ParameterSet

Load

0:EURange

High: 200Low: 0

This is the EURange of the conveyor load.

The AFCState variable describes the current status of the AFC.

The Load variable describes the current percental load of the conveyor motor.

Please refer to OPC 10000-100, OPC 40001-1, OPC 40560 and OPC 40563-1 for the descriptions of other inherited instance declarations.