scope:

This International Standard gives terms and definitions and an identification structure for classifying earth-moving machinery designed to perform the following operations:

- excavation,

- loading,

- transportation, and

- drilling, spreading, compacting or trenching of earth and other materials,

for example, during work on roads and dams, and on building sites.

The purpose of this International Standard is to provide a clear means of identifying machines according to their function and design configurations.

Annex A provides a procedure based on the identification structure used by this International Standard for classifying the machinery and for introducing detailed identifications consistent with the logic implied by the structure.

Annex B provides a hierarchy of the operator control configurations for earth-moving machinery.