agent – Machining Code

The dangers of relying on external infrastructure

December 30, 2018 pmcoltrane Comments 0 Comment

This week I was working with TrakHound’s MTConnect.NET library again, but all my test connections were failing.

I had been testing against the MTConnect Institute’s demo agent, which is now run by NIST. I opened it in my browser and got a 404 Not Found. So I went up one level and saw this…

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Installing the NodeJS MTConnect Agent

December 26, 2017 pmcoltrane Comments 0 Comment

A long time ago on a blog far, far away, I wrote an article called “Set up an MTConnect Agent in three or so steps”. This became one of the most visited articles I have ever written, and is still being viewed four years later. However, much has changed in the MTConnect world in the past four years, so I wanted to take another look at installing an MTConnect agent. …