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MTConnect Community

MTConnect (Manufacturing Technology Connectivity) is a standard based on an open protocol for data integration. MTConnect® is not intended to replace the functionality of existing products, but it strives to enhance the data acquisition capabilities of devices and applications and move toward a plug-and-play environment to reduce the cost of integration.

MTConnect® is built upon the most prevalent standards in the manufacturing and software industry, maximizing the number of tools available for its implementation and providing the highest level of interoperability with other standards and tools in these industries.

This site is a community portal providing information for implementation best practices and to share experiences for connecting devices on the shop floor. This site will have associations with various open source project housed on the MTConnect github site: http://github.com/mtconnect . All material contributed on this site becomes part of the public domain licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

MTConnect Standard

Terminology - A list of terms related to MTConnect

HTTP Primer - Everything you need to know about HTTP for MTConnect

Using XML With MTConnect - More of what you need to know

XML Primer - Everything you need to know about XML for MTConnect

Protocol – In-depth MTConnect Agent protocols including streaming using push based protocols

Fault Tolerance – Making Your Application Fault Tolerant

Near Real Time – How to get near real time response from MTConnect

Devices and Components - Everything you need to know about device and component structures for MTConnect

Data Items - Everything you need to know about data items for MTConnect

_{Data Item Units}

_{Data Item Types: SAMPLE}

_{Data Item Types: EVENT}

_{Data Item Types: CONDITION}

Component Types and Subcomponents - An in-depth explanation of the different component types and their subcomponents

_{Sensor Types}

Streams - More information regarding stream structure, DeviceStream, and ComponentStream

Samples, Events, and Condition - Everything you need to know about the three parts of a component stream

_{XML Element Tag Names - Sample}

_{XML Element Tag Names - Event}

Cutting Tools - Common MTConnect Assets

Software

C++ Agent – Reference C++ Agent

Adapters - Various adapter implementations

Device Configurations

Best Practices

Time Stamps - Issues with time stamps and adapter time vs. agent time.

Machine Tool Modeling

Implementations

C++ Agent

C++ Adapter Toolkit

C# Adapter Toolkit

Projects

ROS - MTConnect - Robot integration using ROS and MTConnect

Utilities

Schema Generator - The MTConnect schema generation tool for schema extension

Device Configuration - The MTConnect Device.xml template generator

Example Code

Probe Request

Current Request

HTTP Error

Annotated XML Examples

Vertical Three Axis Mill

Two Axis Lathe

HyperQuadrex

Sensors

Condition Examples