Recently, MTConnect has been developed as an open and free communications standard to facilitate the exchange of data on the manufacturing floor for machine tools and related devices. This paper will briefly describe MTC, and look at quality of service issues investigated by implementing a modest MTConnect testbed in a “Dual-Ethernet” machine tool network configuration. MTConnect is expected to address the continuing pressure to reduce costs and improve time to market places in the CNC manufacturing world. It can facilitate smarter ways of manufacturing and intensifies the need to integrate feedback from the shop floor into the enterprise business systems.

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This presentation will describe how Boeing implements the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) information model. The presentation will include visualization of manufacturing data for parts and tooling visibility in manufacturing industry. Simulation analyses are prepared by extracting and formatting data from real world production databases. This includes automatic data processing, automatic curve fitting for distribution functions, automatic CMSD file generation, and finally data is automatically fed to simulations.2930 978-1-4244-2708-6/08/$25.00

In order to maximize assets, manufacturers should use real-time knowledge garnered from ongoing and continuous collection and evaluation of factory-floor machine status data. In discrete parts manufacturing, factory machine monitoring has been difficult, due primarily to closed, proprietary automation equipment that make integration difficult. Recently, there has been a push in applying the data acquisition concepts of MTConnect to the real-time acquisition of machine status data. MTConnect is an open, free specification aimed at overcoming the “Islands of Automation” dilemma on the shop floor. With automated asset analysis, manufacturers can improve production to become lean, efficient, and effective. The focus of this paper will be on the deployment of MTConnect to collect real-time machine status to automate asset management. In addition, we will leverage the ISO 22400 standard, which defines an asset and quantifies asset performance metrics. In conjunction with these goals, the deployment of MTConnect in a large aerospace manufacturing facility will be studied with emphasis on asset management and understanding the impact of machine Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) on manufacturing.