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Sun Microsystems Champions Open Standards to Usher in a New Era in Manufacturing |
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New MTConnect Open Communications Propels Manufacturing Technology into Connected Digital Age
SANTA CLARA, CA – September 3, 2008 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) announced today that it will join the MTConnect Technical Advisory Group (MTAG) to further defi ne the open communication protocol standard it helped create for the manufacturing technology industry a year ago.
MTConnect is an open manufacturing technology standard that uses proven, royalty free Internet communications technologies as its basis to allow manufacturing technology vendors and customers to safely and easily communicate.
“Sun Microsystems has a very long history of working with the industry and academia to create and promote open technology standards that drive genuine innovation,” said Dave Edstrom, Chief Technologist of the Americas Software Practice for Sun Microsystems. “Open source and open standards are the keys to unlocking manufacturing innovation and effi ciency around the world, particularly in growing emerging markets. I am thrilled Sun has been able to play a pivotal role in the development of such an important initiative as MTConnect.”
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The concept is to develop a middleware standard that would provide the capability to pass data, even from existing data transfer capabilities and formats, to higher level systems using the XML based standard (see Included Figure). |
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.NET SDK V0.41 for MTConnect Devices |
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New Version The Software Development Kit (SDK) .NET V0.41 for MTConnect devices is now available for download and review for registered users fo the MTConnect website. Just login, go to the "Download" and "SDK" sections of the site and download the .NET Agent zip file and follow the readme.txt file information. |
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