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.

The Transport and Dumping Equipment General document, OPC 40563-1, serves as an abstraction layer to all machines and systems that are classified as transport and dumping equipment or systems. Therefore, it contains parent types and common features that are shared by two or more transport or dumping equipment or systems. Documents detailing the transport and dumping equipment or systems, that are part of the OPC 40563 multi-part documents, are given in Table 1.

Table 1 – Subdocuments of OPC 40563 Transport and Dumping Equipment

Document Name	Number	Description
General (This document)	OPC 40563-1	General Information about Dumping Equipment
Armored Face Conveyor	OPC 40563-2	Machine specific information about the Armored Face Conveyor machine
Rear Dump Truck	OPC 40563-3	Machine specific information about Rear Dump Truck machine

This document contains common OPC UA type definitions to all transport and dumping equipment and systems.