Superclass (is-a): «abstract» Interface

MaterialHandlerInterface

Definition: «abstract» 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 from «abstract» Interface

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Properties

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
id	ID	1.3		1	unique identifier for the «abstract» Component.
name	string	1.3		0..1	name of the «abstract» Component. When provided, ::name MUST be unique for all child «abstract» Component entities of a parent «abstract» Component.
nativeName	string	1.3		0..1	common name associated with «abstract» Component.
sampleInterval	float	1.3		0..1	interval in milliseconds between the completion of the reading of the data associated with the «abstract» Component until the beginning of the next sampling of that data. This information may be used by client software applications to understand how often information from a «abstract» Component is expected to be refreshed. The refresh rate for data from all child «abstract» Component entities will be the same as for the parent «abstract» Component element unless specifically overridden by another ::sampleInterval provided for the child «abstract» Component.
sampleRate	float	1.3	1.2	0..1	DEPRECATED in MTConnect Version 1.2. Replaced by ::sampleInterval,Component.
uuid	ID	1.3		0..1	universally unique identifier for the «abstract» Component.
coordinateSystemIdRef	ID	1.8		0..1	specifies the CoordinateSystem for this «abstract» Component and its children.

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