In an industrial world in which access to data and IIoT connection is becoming an imperative, computerized numerical control machines (CNC) are often out in the cold, isolated and not easily accessed. This can leave enterprises with big gaps in essential data from machines, tools, robots, devices and other manufacturing equipment. Now, however, this can be easily remedied with Emerson’s new MTConnect® driver for the Movicon.NExTTM, automation platform. Marrying the MTConnect standard open-source communication protocol that is used primarily in CNC machines, with the flexibility, scalability and intuitive ease of use of the Movicon.NExT solution, brings manufacturing into modern automation and an IIoT environment not previously available.
To learn more about the new MTConnect driver, check out this announcement.