To continue providing customers in the CNC machining industry with vital data that helps realise the benefits of Industry 4.0, Renishaw has become a member of the umati community, which will complement its existing role on the standards committee of MTConnect. As an active member of both communities, Renishaw will support the development of common language standardisation for machine tools by publishing process measurement and part quality data.
The universal machine technology interface (umati) is an open standard backed by the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW) and the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA). Members of both organisations worked together in the development of a common information model, based on the OPC UA protocol, to simplify connectivity between equipment and software, and control data exchange between different machines.

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