What is MTConnect?
Ladder99 uses MTConnect as the underlying data vocabulary - it was started by UC Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Sun Microsystems in 2008, and continues under active development.
“MTConnect will be more important in the 21st century for manufacturing than CNC was for manufacturing in the 20th century.” - John Byrd
MTConnect Agent
MTConnect provides a reference Agent, which accepts data from devices and transforms it to standard vocabulary. This data is then available to other applications, and to the user through a web interface, which is included in the Ladder99 pipeline -
Data Representation
For developers, the underlying data representation is primarily XML, though with MTConnect 2.0 is expanding to other formats, including JSON and MQTT.