Surface Technology - General Types

OPC 40700: Surface Technology - General Types

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2026-02-24

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1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms, definitions and conventions 3.1 Overview 3.2 Abbreviated terms 3.3 Conventions used in this document 3.3.1 Conventions for Node descriptions 3.3.1.1 Node definitions 3.3.1.2 Additional References 3.3.1.3 Additional sub-components 3.3.1.4 Additional Attribute values 3.3.2 NodeIds and BrowseNames 3.3.2.1 NodeIds 3.3.2.2 BrowseNames 3.3.3 Common Attributes 3.3.3.1 General 3.3.3.2 Objects 3.3.3.3 Variables 3.3.3.4 VariableTypes 3.3.3.5 Methods 3.3.4 Structures 4 General information to Surface Technology General Types and OPC UA 4.1 Introduction to Surface Technology General Types 4.2 Introduction to OPC Unified Architecture 4.2.1 What is OPC UA? 4.2.2 Basics of OPC UA 4.2.3 Information modelling in OPC UA 4.2.3.1 Concepts 4.2.3.2 Namespaces 4.2.3.3 Companion Specifications 5 Use cases 5.1 Identify machines in a standardized way 5.2 Current status of the machine 5.3 Structure of a Surface Technology Object 5.4 M2M communication and orchestration 5.5 Find all components of a machine 5.6 Harmonizing with existing standards 6 Surface Technology General Types Information Model overview 7 OPC UA ObjectTypes 7.1 STSysType ObjectType Definition 7.2 STCompType ObjectType Definition 7.3 STSystemControllerType ObjectType Definition 7.4 STBaseControllerType ObjectType Definition 7.5 STJobManagementType ObjectType Definition 7.5.1 Overview 7.5.2 AddAlias Method 7.5.3 RemoveAlias Method 8 Profiles and ConformanceUnits 8.1 Conformance Units 8.2 Profiles 8.2.1 Profile list 8.2.2 Server Facets 8.2.2.1 Overview 8.2.2.2 STBaseControllerAdvanced Server Profile 8.2.3 Client Facets 9 Namespaces 9.1 Namespace Metadata 9.2 Handling of OPC UA Namespaces Annex A (normative)OPC UA for Surface Technology General Types Namespace and mappings