OPC 40702 Surface Technology - Material Supply Systems

Description

Specifies an OPC UA Information Model for Surface Technology – Material Supply Systems.
It defines the required data structures, parameters, methods, state machines etc. for the communication among material supply systems, between material supply systems and supporting systems and from material supply systems into higher level manufacturing systems (e.g. Manufacturing Execution System, MES), for information and diagnostic purposes and to set parameters regarding the material supply system operation.
In this context it can be any existing or future material supply system.

Use cases

Quality assurance/traceability
The user wants to be able to create a good and comprehensive representation of process parameters using standardized modelling of process values. This should enable the monitoring and traceability of production processes.

Illustration of the physical plant network
If several plants are in a line, the information model should make it possible to visualize the points of contact between the different plant sections using references.

Preventive Maintenance
The standardized modelling of different counters should make it possible to provide data to fulfil the use case of preventive maintenance.

Harmonizing with existing standards
If available, the customer wants to be able to fall back on cross-industry preparatory work and comply with existing standards. The OPC UA for Machinery standard should be mentioned here in particular. If possible and sensible, different building blocks from OPC UA for Machinery should be implemented in the information model of the material supply system.

Working Group Surface Technology
Document Type Specification
License Specifications
Access Level
Releases Registered
Release Candidate Paid members
Version Status Date
Release Candidate 2026-02-23