- MTConnect Challenge

NCDMM (National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining), the US Army, and AMT (Association for Manufacturing Technology) announce the MTConnect Challenge.    The Challenge is a competition for companies, universities, individuals, ....  to develop new techologies utilizing MTConnect to collect data from data sources.   Participants will be competing for a series of cash prizes.  The goal of the Challenge is to develop a wide variety of new productivity tools and signficantly increase the installed base of MTConnect soltuions.

- FAC&T Lanuches The MT Source.com

FAC&T launches a collaborative website to bring the latest Shop Floor Productivity solutions to companies looking to improve their manufacturing processes.   No only does this site  highlight the best manufacturing technologies available, many of these technologies can be purchased directly from the site - a Virtual Technology Distributorship available 24 X 7.

- CCAT Hosts MTConnect Workshop

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) will host an MTConnect Workshop on Friday, Dec 7, 2012.   This is a great opportunity for company's in the Hartford area to meet directly with MTConnect experts and learn how MTConnect can help them improve their manufacturing operations by using data gathered from their shop floor equipment.   Anyone interested in attending can Register at www.etouches.com/MTConnect or contact Ed Marinko at 860-291-8832.

NASA Stennis Space Center Awards Sensor Development Contract to Lion Precision

 

St. Paul, MN USA, August 31, 2010
Lion Precision, a leading manufacturer of high-performance displacement sensors, was awarded a Cooperative Agreement with NASA’s Stennis Space Center to develop a smart sensor and the associated communication protocols to monitor valve position and wear. The eddy-current displacement sensors will monitor valves responsible for the flow of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in rocket engine test cells. Sensor measurements and sensor health information will be transmitted using MTConnect communication protocol. Development of the system will require the expansion of MTConnect to include new XML tags for sensor measurement and health parameters. Don Martin, president of Lion Precision, is the chairperson of the Sensors Working Group for MTConnect.....

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