PlasticsRubber GeneralTypes
| Version | 1.03 |
|---|---|
| Published | 2021-05-10 |
| Namespace | http://opcfoundation.org/UA/PlasticsRubber/GeneralTypes/ |
| Sector | Plastics and rubber machinery |
The shared base of the plastics and rubber companion specification family, which is where the Euromap work ended up. If you are integrating an injection moulding machine, extrusion line or associated equipment, this is the layer underneath whatever machine-specific model you actually need.
Where it sits in the stack
It sits under the machine-specific plastics models - injection moulding to MES, extrusion, leak detection, dosing and the rest - providing common types they all reuse. Above it sit those models; below it, the core OPC UA information model.
The types that matter
| Type | What it carries |
|---|---|
MachineType | The general machine base used across the family, carrying identification and common status. |
MachineIdentificationType | Nameplate identification, aligned in intent with the Machinery identification building block. |
Using it on a real machine
- Establish which family member the machine implementsGeneralTypes alone is rarely the whole answer. Find out whether the machine also implements IMM2MES, an extrusion model, LDS or another member, because that determines what production data you can get.
- Check the version carefullyThis family has more version churn than any other. GeneralTypes has shipped at 1.02 and 1.03, and Extrusion exists as v1 and a separate v2 namespace. Read the ModelUri and version from the server rather than assuming.
- Search for the Euromap name tooMachine documentation and older tender specifications still say Euromap 77 or Euromap 83. Those refer to the work that became this family.
What it gives you for OEE
Little directly. GeneralTypes gives you identification and common structure, not counters or state. Your availability and production data come from the machine-specific family member and, where the vendor implements it, the Machinery building blocks.
Gotchas
- Version churn is the defining problem of this family. GeneralTypes at 1.02 versus 1.03, and Extrusion v1 versus the separate Extrusion_v2 namespace, are real interoperability differences.
- There is no Euromap nodeset. Euromap 77 and its siblings are still what people search for and still appear in specifications, but the released models live under the PlasticsRubber family.
- Vendors implement subsets. Browse before promising a data point to a customer.
Once the machine speaks a companion spec, the OEE mapping is portable across vendors, which is the point at which analytics stops being a per-machine project.
See Jemba →Last verified 7 September 2026 against OPC UA 1.05.07. Version and publication date read from the released nodeset. OPC UA Connect is an educational resource and is not affiliated with the OPC Foundation.