Mazak Corporation is continuing its sponsorship of the annual [MC]2 events and will be presenting at this year's conference. Hosted by the MTConnect Institute, the conference will take place in Dallas, TX, April 19-21 at the Intercontinental Dallas Hotel.
At the event, Mazak's Application Engineer, Developer and MTConnect Specialist Neil Desrosiers will present the company's SmartBox technology. "Developed in partnership with Cisco Systems, this technology represents a leap in digital integration across manufacturing," said a Mazak spokesperson.
Using MTConnect technology as its foundation, the SmartBox provides connectivity of machines and devices and allows for enhanced monitoring and analytical capabilities, including advanced cyber security protection. With it, manufacturers access real-time production floor data that they can then use to improve overall productivity efficiency and responsiveness to customer and/or market changes.
The SmartBox is yet another component within the Mazak's dynamic iSMART Factory concept that uses advanced manufacturing cells and systems together with full digital integration to achieve free-flow data sharing in terms of process control and operation monitoring. At Mazak's own iSMART Factory in Florence, KY, MTConnect works with process support software and provides connectivity and the capability to monitor and then harvest data from all of the different production floor machines, cells, devices and processes.
"MTConnect and SmartBox working in tandem account for a significant technological step in the future direction of factories toward full digital integration and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)," said Brian Papke, President of Mazak. "From the start, we recognized MTConnect's value to our customers in the ability for them to establish extensive and open channels of communication for plug-and-play interconnectivity between devices. And we continue to propagate the protocol's benefits within the machine tool OEM industry. All of the machines we build are MTConnect compatible, and we have consistently expanded the use of the protocol throughout our own manufacturing operations as well."
At the 2016 (MC)2 Conference, thought leaders and industry insiders will gather to solve problems and showcase cutting-edge solutions for the rapidly expanding world of connected manufacturing. From cyber-physical security and open architecture to automation, robotics and new training platforms, [MC]2 will present how to plan and execute a digital factory as well as demonstrate how to integrate systems across suppliers, producers and clients for a strong vital network between IT and mechanical and electrical engineering.
For more information contact:
(MC)2 MTConnect Conference
www.mc2conference.com
Tasha Riddell
Mazak Corporation
P.O. Box 970
Florence, KY 41022-0970
859-342-1700
triddell@mazakcorp.com
www.mazakusa.com