MTConnect

MTConnect is a read-only standard for collecting data from machine tools and other manufacturing equipment. An agent collects data from the machine, often through an adapter, and serves it over HTTP as XML or JSON documents with a shared vocabulary.

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Specification

2 sources

Transports	http, tcp
Architecture	request response
Encoding	mixed

Default ports

IANA assignments

5000TCPHTTP requests to the agent

Study notes

The agent answers four REST requests: /probe (what the device can report), /current (latest values), /sample (time series) and /assets.
Adapters often feed agents with SHDR, a plain-text protocol of timestamped key|value pairs over TCP.
MTConnect reads data only. It does not send commands to the machine.