¶ MTConnect Community
This site is a community portal providing information for implementation best practices for connecting devices on the shop floor with the MTConnect standard. All material contributed on this site becomes part of the public domain licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
¶ MTConnect Standard
The MTConnect standard offers a semantic vocabulary for manufacturing equipment to provide structured, contextualized data with no proprietary format. With uniform data, developers and integrators can focus on useful, productive manufacturing applications rather than translation. Data sources include: machine tools; production equipment; sensors and sensor controllers, and other factory hardware. Applications that consume MTConnect data provide more efficient operations, improved production optimization, and increased productivity.
For more information, please visit the official MTConnect website at mtconnect.org.
¶ How to Get the Standard
Current and archived releases of the MTConnect Standard are free. Find them at mtconnect.org/documents
¶ MTConnect SysML Model
Starting with Version 2.0, the normative MTConnect Information Model will be an XMI file rather than text documents.
Normative MTConnect XMI : MTConnect Information Model XMI is developed in SysML modeling language using Cameo Enterprise Architect.
MTConnect Model Browser : MTConnect Information Model can be browsed in a report generated from the normative MTConnect XMI.
¶ What's new in MTConnect
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Kinematics
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Specifications
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Additive
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QIF
¶ Companion Specifications
There are a set of companion specifications to ensure interoperability and consistency between MTConnect and other standard specifications.
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B2MML : Additional documentation for implementing B2MML with MTConnect can be found here: MTC-B2MML Guide
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NC-Link - Ongoing
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umati - Ongoing
¶ For Developers
¶ What does an MTConnect Architecture look like?
A typical MTConnect architecture has 4 key components: Device, Adapter, Agent and Application. See mtconnect.org/getting-started
¶ What if you want to buy MTConnect?
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Check if MTConnect is already supported by your vendor in the list here: Integrators.
- If your vendor exists on the list, you could either reach out to your vendor or your distributor and ask them if they provide MTConnect products.
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Alternatively, there are also third party system integrators on the list above that sell MTConnect products for new as well as legacy equipment.
¶ Develop your own MTConnect solution?
¶ Research Projects
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MetaAgent - Seamless data integration for MTConnect, NC-Link and OPC UA and any other standards.
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Mazak MTConnect Testbed - MTConnect Demo Agents.
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ROS - MTConnect - Robot Automation Cell Testbed Development and Demonstration using ROS and MTConnect
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SPEC-OPS - Standards-based dynamic scheduling and job routing.
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O3 - Develop real time simulation and verification built on standards.
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VTech - AMT - MTConnect Use Case Studies at the Virginia Tech Learning Factory
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Smart Manufacturing Systems Testbed - Demonstrate data collection and storage architecture.
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More on Github: MTConnect GitHub
¶ Resources and White Papers
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Getting Started with MTConnect – Monitoring Your Shop Floor - What's In It For You?
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Getting Started with MTConnect – Writing Client Applications