umatiCon­nect

umatiCon­nect is a power­ful open source soft­ware solu­tion that enables a dir­ect con­nec­tion between the two lead­ing com­mu­nic­a­tion eco­sys­tems, umati and MTCon­nect. Developed in close col­lab­or­a­tion with renowned part­ners, umatiCon­nect offers a simple way to con­nect machines with dif­fer­ent stand­ards – without any inter­ven­tion in the con­trol system. 

The applic­a­tion runs dir­ectly on an indus­tri­al PC and auto­mat­ic­ally gen­er­ates the oth­er inter­face, depend­ing on wheth­er it is con­nec­ted to an umati OPC UA for Machine Tools or MTCon­nect-enabled machine. A con­fig­ur­able map­ping table ensures reli­able con­ver­sion and trans­mis­sion of machine data into the desired format. Com­mu­nic­a­tion takes place on the loc­al net­work – an inter­net con­nec­tion is not necessary. 

Val­id­a­tion: 

The solu­tion has been suc­cess­fully tested with machine tools from Mazak and DMG MORI. Mazak machines, fea­tur­ing an estab­lished MTCon­nect-based data eco­sys­tem, were integ­rated into the umati eco­sys­tem via umatiCon­nect, using the OPC UA for Machine Tools spe­cific­a­tion. and the data was visu­al­ized in the umati.app. Con­versely, data from umati-enabled DMG MORI machines was suc­cess­fully con­ver­ted to MTCon­nect format and dis­played in Maza­k’s MTCon­nect-based Smooth Mon­it­or AX dash­board. 

Bene­fits: 

• Quick and easy expan­sion of exist­ing machines with addi­tion­al interfaces
• No changes to the machine con­trol sys­tem necessary
• Use of open stand­ards for max­im­um flexibility
• Loc­al data pro­cessing without an Inter­net connection
• Indi­vidu­ally con­fig­ur­able and customizable