1 Scope

The OPC UA for Machinery specification contains various building blocks for Machinery that allow to address use cases across different types of machines and components of machines defined in various companion specifications.

The content of this specification is applicable for any piece of equipment or parts of equipment that converts energy (e.g., electricity, steam, gas, human power, pressure) to mechanical movements, heat, electrical signals, pressure etc. to do a particular task in the mechanical engineering industry. This includes for example:

Different types of Machines (see ISO 12100:2010, [1]), e.g., machine tools, injection moulding machines, woodworking machines, packaging machinery

Partly completed machines, e.g., robotic systems

Accessory and auxiliary equipment, e.g., interchangeable equipment, load-carrying equipment

Devices and modules for the process industry, e.g., ovens, power systems

Measuring, analysis and testing equipment, e.g., machine vision systems

Control systems

The environment with which entities are energetically and/or communicatively connected

Installations consisting of multiple entities

This version contains building blocks for

Machine Identification and Nameplate (see section 8)

Finding all Machines in a Server (see section 9)

Component Identification and Nameplate (see section 10)

Finding all identifiable Components of a Machine (see section 11)

MachineryItemState (see section 12)

MachineryOperationMode (see section 13)

Operation Counter (see section 14)

Lifetime Counter (see section 15)

Monitoring (see section 16)

MachineryEquipment (see section 17)

Notifications (see section 18)