Robot Operating System Cookbook

Getting ready

MTConnect is not an application. The MTConnect Institute (http://www.mtconnect.org/) does not sell MTConnect.

MTConnect enables end-user productivity by:

• Making it easy to connect manufacturing equipment to a network and to get information from them
• Making it easy to share manufacturing information in an open and standard way with their suppliers anywhere they choose
• Making it very easy to monitor what other manufacturing equipment is doing
• Allowing us to easily analyze all the information in our plant
• Using MTConnect—connect once and improve productivity everywhere

MTConnect is a standard based on open and royalty free protocols (a language with a dictionary) that enables manufacturing equipment to speak in the language of ...