An mtconnect-based monitoring system for cnc machines

With the arrival of the internet as the main means of communication, the interest in monitoring industrial processes has risen. Supervisory systems based on desktop applications had their spot taken over by Web applications that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Although such supervisory systems are already very present in the industrial environment, there has been great difficulty in applying them to manufacturing systems, due to the non-uniformity of data collected from machine-tools. The MTConnectTM protocol came to standardize the data collected from the shop floor and offer them to a Web application in a standard format. This study describes an application of the MTConnectTM system in a real manufacturing system. The whole architecture suggested for the case study has been laid out, as well as the Web system proposed for the supervision of the processes. The implementation of this system has promoted the centralization of the data of interest and has enabled their use in researching applications, confirming that applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) benefit the 4.0 Industry. Keywords— Internet of Things, Manufacturing Systems, MTConnectTM, 4.0 Industry