Enum Types

To achieve maximum flexibility with regard to future extensions and/or changes in the MTConnect Standard, the server allows to configure -beside to the event and sample data item types- the enumeration types used by the enumeration event types. The predefined enumeration type set which comes with the MTConnect server installation includes all enumeration types used for all the enumeration event types defined in MTConnect Standard version 1.4. The complete list of the predefined enumeration types you can find in topic Supported MTConnect Standard.

You can extend the predefined enumeration type set by additional types as required but we strongly recommend to not change the predefined types! If you need to extend the enumeration type set by a agent specific enumeration type we strongly recommend to add such an agent specific type to the agent's enumeration type set. The global type set should only contain enumeration types which specified in the MTConnect Standard.

Type Name

By default all standard enumeration types are prefixed with "EnumType". The right part of the name specifies the unique name of the type.

To see the enumeration text-value-pairs of a specific type,click the expand button either in the left Tree View window or in the grid line in the right window.

Enumeration Text

This is the string value an OPC UA client receives when the enumeration event item is in the specific state.

Enumeration Value

This is the numeric value an OPC UA client receives when the enumeration event item is in the specific state.