As a weekend project, I put together a command-line MTConnect client. It’s coded in C# for .NET 5.0, and I’ve published the source code on GitHub. It’s still a little rough around…
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Node-RED and MTConnect
Recently I noticed a few visitors to this site were searching for information on MTConnect support in Node-RED. I’ve never used Node-RED before, but thought this would be a good reason to…
Install the MTConnect Agent In Two Easy-ish Steps
A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring the MTConnect Agent, and an update to my earlier article, “Set up an MTConnect Agent in three or so steps“.
Popular Machine Tool Apps
If you’re curious, like me, about what software tools are being widely used in manufacturing, Okuma has given us a peek at the most popular machine tool apps in their app store….
The dangers of relying on external infrastructure
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…
Access MTConnect data from a web application
About five years ago I wrote 5 ways to access MTConnect data from a web application. This article outlined methods for accessing the MTConnect agent’s data from a client-side web application. Ignore…
Using MTConnect for Automation
Eight years ago when I first encountered MTConnect, I felt the technology would transform the machine shop. Today, support for MTConnect is commonplace in new machine tools, and often available for older…
Will TrakHound run on Linux?
No. At least, I’ve had no luck running any of the TrakHound components on Linux. In a previous post I mentioned that I could not try the TrakHound community software, since I…
A $59.99* Machine Monitoring System
If you are trying to implement basic machine monitoring in your shop on a shoestring budget, and your machine tools are already MTConnect aware, Raspberry Pi provides an inexpensive solution. * Cost…
Installing the NodeJS MTConnect Agent
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…