4 General information to 40563-1: T&D 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 OPC Unified Architecture

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 40563-1General Information about Dumping Equipment
Armored Face ConveyorOPC 40563-2Machine specific information about the Armored Face Conveyor machine
Rear Dump TruckOPC 40563-3Machine specific information about Rear Dump Truck machine


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