Machine tool industry
Control providers support Umati
The Umati standard interface is now also supported by B&R Automation and Mitsubishi Electric. The new support means that it is well on the way to becoming a cross-manufacturer interface for data readout.
Umati, universal machine tool interface, has made progress towards becoming the international standard interface for the communication of machine tools with higher-level IT systems. "Not only did our newly founded OPC UA Joint Working Group start work in mid-February, but we also managed to get two more well-known control system manufacturers on board: B&R Automation from Austria and Mitsubishi Electric from Japan," says Dr. Alexander Broos, Head of Research and Development at the VDW.
For the control system manufacturers, participation and support is only logical, as users want a manufacturer-independent standard in order to be able to read their data and process it in a uniform data format. The standardization initiated by the VDW based on the recognized industry standard OPC UA is supported by Bosch Rexroth. The company is involved in the design and is integrating umati into the MTX CNC system.
Together with eight well-known machine tool manufacturers, the "Connectivity for Industry 4.0" project was launched in 2017. A demo installation with international participation is planned for EMO Hannover 2019. On the one hand, the OPC UA specification for machine tools should be available, and on the other, the necessary prerequisites and adaptations must be created in the participants' machines and control systems. The first use cases will then be demonstrated in Hanover.
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