UMATI Companion Specification

An initiative of the German Machine Tool Builders Association - VDW, umati (universal machine technology interface) is a community of the machine building industries and their customers for the promotion and adoption of open, standardized interfaces based on OPC UA. The umati community backs and endorses a variety of domain-specific information models and protocols released as OPC UA companion specifications. These include the VDW OPC UA Companion Specification for Machine Tools, which competes with the MTConnect OPC UA Companion Specification. Both standards are OPC UA native. They share some definitions and structure, but take somewhat divergent approaches based on differing stakeholder requirements. Learn more about umati and related specifications of the OPC Foundation at https://showcase.umati.org/

Commercial and open source utilities to harmonize and co-deploy MTConnect and OPC UA are under development with early releases expected by year-end 2021.