MTConnect Institute Releases Version 1.5.0
March 1, 2020
The MTConnect Institute, standard development organization for MTConnect, has announced the release of Version 1.5.0 of the MTConnect standard, a free, open semantic vocabulary for discrete manufacturing.
This version includes:
- New data items and information models for additive manufacturing including material system, deposition system, volumetric units and wait states
- New data items for robotic machine tending including part detect
- Expanded data items for machine tools including variables, program nesting level, program source, streaming variables and native units
- Expanded data items for cutting tools including tool offset variable and tool group
- New data items and information models for complex manufacturing systems including relationships and new event type references by device ID
- Bug fixes and editorial corrections.
The standard is produced and maintained by volunteers from industry via the MTConnect Institute Standards Committee and its working groups. A free, open-source, community-maintained MTConnect agent written in C++ is available at github.com/mtconnect/cppagent and includes version 1.5 updates and the version 1.5 XML schema. In addition to new data items, version 1.5 also saw the foundation laid for publishing a SysML model to accompany future releases. That model is a work-in-progress and available at github.com/mtconnect/mtconnect-sysml-model.
For more information contact:
MTConnect Institute
7901 Jones Branch Drive
Suite 900
McLean, VA 22102
info@mtconnect.org
www.mtconnect.org
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