MTConnect SC Meetings and Capabilities Discussion
Overview
The MTConnect Institute is holding its annual Standards Committee meeting open to the public at MxD in Chicago following the DMSC Model-Based Engineering Summit. Following the Standards Committee meeting, we will hold a special meeting to discuss Manufacturing Capabilities, led by Jan De Nijs of Lockheed Martin.
MTConnect Standards Committee Meeting (09:00 - 12:00)
AMT and the MTConnect Institute invite you to spend Friday after the summit at two meetings we are hosting.
The MTConnect Standards Committee annual face-to-face meeting will be held from 9:00 am to 12:00 CT. We will discuss what we have completed since the last meeting and the new directions and focus areas of the standard. We will also cover technology and innovation happening in the industry.
MTConnect Capabilities Meeting (13:00 - 17:00)
The Second half of the day, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, is devoted to a discussion of how we define and use capabilities, ranging from manufacturing enterprises to individual pieces of equipment and possibly their components. Lockheed Martin will lead the conversation and explore how one uses capabilities to identify potential manufacturing opportunities and potential in manufacturing systems. We will also explore how capabilities align with requirements and how the two concepts intersect when determining how and where to make something. The specification of capabilities is a cross-domain standardization problems that require a concerted effort across multiple organizations.
We will be posting more information on the talks in the near future.
The Agenda is as follows:
MTConnect. SC Meeting:
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 | Intros |
| Working group (10 mins) | |
| 09:15 | Parts & Process |
| 09:25 | Vocabulary |
| 09:35 | Architecture |
| 09:45 | Agent |
| 09:55 | Robotics |
| 10:05 | Education |
| 10:15 |
Validation
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| 10:25 | Open Issues (15–20 minutes) |
| ASTM Meeting | |
| 10:45 | Break (15 minutes) |
Talks
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Discussion of MTConnect/AMT Testbed | Matt McCormick? |
| 11:15 | Validator Updates – CI Features | Travis McAllister |
| 11:30 | Robotics Integration | Ted Weerts |
| 11:45 | I3X Companion Specification | Chris Mitzur |
| 12:00 | Acoustic Analysis | Eunseoub Kim |
| 12:00-12:15 | Lunchtime | |
| Device Configuration Demonstration | ||
Manufacturing Capabilties
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 1:15 – 2:45 pm |
Presentations (15 min + 5 min Q&A each)
Abstract: Manufacturing capacity exists across the industrial base, but much of it remains difficult to discover, validate, and connect. Many manufacturers have not yet begun their Industry 4.0 integration journey, and accessible starting points are still needed. This presentation explores how open standards such as MTConnect can provide a practical foundation for incremental adoption, beginning with machine monitoring and progressing toward more structured and interoperable data. It will highlight the role of real-time operational signals, capability data, and validation in improving visibility and trust across the supply chain. Drawing on practical implementation experience, the talk will frame how these building blocks can scale from individual machines to connected manufacturing networks. The objective is to outline a path from initial integration to a more visible and interoperable manufacturing ecosystem, and to identify key questions for the community as this effort evolves. Abstract: With the advent of digital twins and manufacturers' desire to collect all relevant process information during part construction, there is a need to track process information in additive manufacturing alongside affected design features. The additive manufacturing workflow is substantially different than classic manufacturing processes. The transformative nature of the process, from subtractive to additive, changes which parts of the process impact the creation of part design features. The shift from removing material to form the design feature to a layer-based approach of adding material to build the final net-shape part affects how feature traceability can be achieved. First, we will look at the high-level additive manufacturing workflow. Then we will examine a feature-identification method that can be added to the existing workflow to meet manufacturing needs. Lastly, we will cover some of the shortfalls of this approach. Abstract: Capabilities are a very broad topic and span multiple domains, but there is an underlying understanding of what a capability is and how it should be treated from a realist perspective. We will introduce the idea of capabilities from the IOF perspective and how they are defined. We will then show how this applies to the MTConnect model when projected onto the IOF model, and how we can infer capabilities without directly asserting them. In this example, the capabilities are emergent from the underlying components. As capabilities are aggregated across the organization, higher-level capabilities can be inferred. We will also briefly touch on how the MTConnect institute will be supporting capabilities using our testbed. Abstract: This joint talk will present an overview of (i) NSF-sponsored research efforts at Georgia Tech focused on developing data-driven methods for representing manufacturing capability and their various use cases including automating process planning, design for manufacturability, and on-demand identification of feasible suppliers, and (ii) related work at OpenWerks and its industrial partners on enabling real-time visibility into manufacturing capability and capacity of suppliers. |
| 3:00 – 4:30 pm |
Panel Discussion: Standardized Descriptions of Capability
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| 4:30 – 5:00 pm |
Summary & Closing
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