MT CONNECT
MTConnect
: Powering free speech in the factory of the future
technologies and innovations based on IoT and digital data .
Since the first initial specification was published in 2007 the standard has been adopted by more than 400 companies and research organisations including automotive , aerospace , medical , as well as software developers , system integrators . Today , MTConnect helps shop floor monitoring and control .
“ We wanted to create a standard that every machine could use , so the data and communication protocols were not proprietary to that company ”
DR STEPHAN BILLER CEO OF ADVANCE MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL AND TRUSTEE OF MTCONNECT
“ We wanted to create a standard that every machine could use . So , the data and communication protocols were not proprietary to that company but were the same . That would allow the users of the products to easily integrate them into their IoT platform . The access to data from the users of those machines is what is advantageous to their customers and the producers of those machines ,” said Biller .
Advantages of using MTConnect include :
• Widely adopted
• Easily implemented
• Installed on new and legacy equipment
• Many new devices MTConnect is built-in
Supporting all of this is the MTConnect Institute community which is continuing to grow its open-source libraries , free agents and adaptors for new and legacy machines .
Biller highlighted a new agent is now available to modernise and streamline performance on any device .
238 August 2021