Quick Start Platform

The Solution Family Team has combined their 20 years of tool development and integration experience with the innovative MTConnect® standard for machine tool communications to provide a Quick Start Platform for bringing MTConnect® to your shop floor.    We have combined the technology of Solution Builder®, Virtual Agent and our industrial automation experience to deliver a reliable industrial platform for analyzing, modeling and improving your machining process with the MTConnect® Standard.  The Quick Start Platform brings the technologies and promise of the MTConnect® Standard and the ease of solution development through Solution Builder® to your shop floor, demonstrating “What you can do with MTConnect® today!”

 

 Features:
  
 
  • Turn Key Platform for Developing  Solutions using the  MTConnect® Standard
  • Virtual Agent - fully MTConnect® 1.1 Compliant
  • I/O is Discovered and Published
  • Embedded Computer – Windows CE
  • Solution Development with Solution Builder®
  • Data Collection, Connections, Applications
  • Enables Users to Develop Solutions Stand Alone or integrated with the plant’s network
  • Adds Application Features above the MTConnect® Standard
  • Data Collection, Models, Connections and Application Logic
  • Enable Legacy Machine Tools to use the MTConnect® Standard
  • Pre-Wired For easy Addition of new sensors
  • Integrate MTConnect® enabled Machines and devices to provide a collective dashboard of your plant floor

Inside the Quick Start Platform

Feature Details

 

Solution Development: Ships with both Solution Builder® and the embedded Virtual Agent empowering the user to analyze, model and improve their machining Process.  
  
   
  • Access to all MTConnect® Data
  • Immediately Develop Visualizations, Data Collectors and Applications
  • Enabled User to Develop Full Network Solutions
  • Adds Application Features above the MTConnect® Standard
  • Data Collection, Models, Connections and Applications
  • MTConnect® Enable Legacy Machine Tools, add New Sensors, Integrate Machines…
  
 Computer: The embedded computer provides a full featured platform that hosts the Virtual Agent:  
  
   
  • Windows CE 6.0 R3 – Solid State Disk
  • Video, Ethernet, RS485, RS232, USB
  
 I/O: The expandable I/O System allows for a variety of sensors and outputs:  
  
 
  • RS485 Based for expandability
  • Analog I/O (4-20ma, 0-10V)
  • Digital I/O (10-50v)
  • Thermocouples
  • User can Extend with other I/O Systems