On April 15th 2025 we released a major update of our CNCnetPDM MTConnect IIoT device driver for controls equipped with MTConnect Adapters (Fanuc, Mazak, Okuma) with several new features and enhancements.
FIG.1: CNCnetPDM Mazak MTConnect Adapter
MTCCLIENT.DLL 8.0.0.2 (4/15/2025)
For all condition tags the device driver now automatically outputs up to 4 additional elements for item 'Level' (normal, warning, fault or unavailable):
Native code
Native severity
Qualifier and
Text
Output is performed compliant to Part 3 of the MTConnect Standard. In previous versions output was limited to ‘Level’, instead of system_cond|FAULT| you now get system_cond|FAULT 129 90 INSIDE INTERLOCK AXIS|
To enable detection of conditions the driver automatically adds entry ‘Condition tags’ to section [MTC TAG NAMES] of each machine specific INI file (e.g. mtcclient_1000.ini). Condition tag entries are created with reasonable default values for all supported controllers.
Stream data input from devices can now be up to 2047 characters long per packet instead of 1023 in previous versions.
Invalid input from stream data sent by devices is now automatically stripped out f.i. value for tag name ‘maintcheck’ from Mazak CNCs can be > 3000(!) characters long.
