machinetalk GmbH is now part of the umati community
What expectations do you have of umati and what do you expect from the partnership?
We expect umati to achieve greater standardisation and interoperability in mechanical engineering. The partnership will help us to better understand the needs of potential maschinetalk customers in order to further advance the digitalisation of production.
What benefits does umati offer your company and your customers?
Umati is a multiplier for our software solution and a useful target standard in our mapping tool. For our customers, umati has the advantage that they can fall back on an existing, well thought-out information model instead of having to invent their own data standard, which brings advantages in terms of speed and compatibility with other solutions.
How do you evaluate the expansion of the umati initiative to the entire mechanical engineering sector?
The expansion is a sensible step towards establishing a cross-manufacturer and cross-industry standard and accelerating digitalisation across the entire mechanical engineering sector. In most cases, a machine tool does not stand alone in the hall, but is loaded and unloaded by a robot and often has upstream or downstream production steps that take place on non-machine tools. It therefore makes sense to extend umati so that the entire production hall can be covered by one standard.
About machinetalk GmbH
machinetalk GmbH is part of the umati initiative since March 1st. Based in Eislingen and with 4 employees, machinetalk specializes in automated interface configuration between machines and production control systems. Its AI-supported solution saves 84% of the manual effort involved in networking machines. It analyzes control source code and documents, automatically generates a mapping and provides the finished configuration for gateways or data platforms. “Standards such as umati enable cost-effective data exchange. For them to become established, SMEs need simple, affordable tools. This is exactly what we are bringing to the umati community and we look forward to welcoming interested users.”