Discrete

Supertype: Representation

Definition: DEPRECATED Representation for an Observation where each discrete occurrence of the data may have the same value as the previous occurrence of the data.

Version Info

Introduced	Deprecated	Updated
1.3	1.5

Documentation

Description

Discrete for an Observation is defined by the associated DataItem::representation as DISCRETE.

DataItem::representation as DISCRETE MUST have DataItem::category as EVENT.

MTConnect Version 1.5 replaced DataItem::representation as DISCRETE with DataItem::discrete.

Each occurrence of the Observation MAY have the same value as the previous occurrence, and MUST NOT suppress duplicates.

Examples of Discrete: A PartCount reporting the completion of each part using a 1 to indicate completion of a single part, a Message that occurs each time a door opens.

Properties

Name	Type	Int	Dep	Multiplicity	Description
result	string	1.3	1.5	0..1