MaterialHandlerInterface

Supertype: Interface

Definition: Interface that coordinates the operations between a piece of equipment and another associated piece of equipment used to automatically handle various types of materials or services associated with the original piece of equipment.

A material handler is a piece of equipment capable of providing any one, or more, of a variety of support services for another piece of equipment or a process like:

• Loading/unloading material or tooling
• Part inspection
• Testing
• Cleaning

A robot is a common example of a material handler.

Version Info

| Introduced | Deprecated | Updated | |—:|—:|—:| | 1.3 | | |

Inherited Relations

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
observesInterfaceState	InterfaceState	1.3		1
isInterfaceOf	Device	1.3		0..*	(through Interfaces)