CNC Machine Connectivity Software

CONNECT THE WHOLE FLOOR.
NOT THE EASY HALF.

Real fleets span decades and dozens of builders. Half the floor speaks a modern protocol and half of it predates Ethernet. Native protocol support, plug-and-play paths for legacy iron, batch onboarding, and an edge architecture IT approves on the first pass. Two hundred machines is a rollout, not a roadmap.
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CAN YOUR PLATFORM CONNECT THIS?

A 1998 Fanuc still making money
A press brake with no control worth reading
A Citizen Swiss cell running eight programs overnight
A CMM reporting over MTConnect
A thirty-year-old workhorse with no network interface
A robotic welder publishing over MQTT
Spindle load at rates no dashboard could hold
An injection molding press
A Heidenhain control speaking its own protocol
Your existing Kepware infrastructure, as a data source
A vibration sensor added in an afternoon
An assembly bench with no controller at all
Two hundred machines, from an uploaded list of IP addresses
Every one of them, without an inbound firewall rule

HALF YOUR FLEET IS DARK.
THE PICTURE FROM THE REST IS A LIE.

Connectivity that only handles modern controls leaves most of the plant unreported, and a utilization number built from the new machines alone describes an operation you don't have. Approached conventionally, every machine is its own engineering project, every project needs an integrator, and the program stalls at machine twelve of two hundred. What you need is connection that scales in batches, covers the long tail, and passes the security review on the first pass.
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A COMPLETE PICTURE

Every machine reporting regardless of age or builder, so utilization, downtime, and capacity describe the whole floor rather than the newest corner of it.

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SPEED TO FIRST VALUE

Machines onboarded in batches with automatic mapping, so the fleet is connected in days and the value starts before the rollout finishes.

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INTEGRATION COST

No integrator engagement per machine and no custom project for the long tail, which is exactly where conventional programs run out of budget.

ANY BUILDER. ANY VINTAGE.
ANY KIND OF WORK.

Native where a protocol exists, adapter-scripted where it doesn't, and sensor-based where there's no control worth reading — with the ceiling on each path stated honestly rather than papered over.
EDGE ARCHITECTURE

NO INBOUND HOLES.
NO VENDOR VPN.

All communication originates from the edge outbound to the cloud. No inbound firewall rules, no vendor VPN into the plant, no listening ports exposed. Run it on purpose-built edge hardware or as a virtual machine on VMware or Hyper-V using infrastructure you already own. Encrypted in transit and at rest, on an ISO 27001 certified platform.

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The sentence that ends most security objections

Edge-initiated, outbound-only traffic resolves the majority of IT concerns before they're raised. High-frequency signals are processed locally, so spindle load sampled far beyond monitoring rates never floods your network or the cloud.
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PHYSICAL OR VIRTUAL
Purpose-built industrial hardware, or a VM on the hypervisor your team already runs.
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PROCESSED LOCALLY
High-frequency load data handled at the edge, so tool anomaly detection doesn't cost you bandwidth.
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MANAGED CENTRALLY
Configure, monitor, and update every edge across every site from one interface. A hundred edges administered like one.
ONBOARDING AT SCALE

CONNECT THE FLEET,
NOT ONE MACHINE.

Upload a list of IP addresses and connect machines in bulk instead of commissioning them one at a time. Machines on standard protocols configure themselves — states, part counts, and core data points mapped automatically. The non-standard ones get configurable adapter scripts, which is a supported configuration path rather than a development project.

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A rollout, not a roadmap

This is the difference between a fleet-wide program and a pilot that never expands. Two hundred machines connected from a list is a different activity than two hundred integration projects.
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BATCH SCANNING
Bulk connection from an uploaded IP list, rather than machine-by-machine commissioning.
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AUTOMATIC MAPPING
Standard-protocol machines configured without manual tag work.
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ADAPTER SCRIPTING
A supported path for machines and PLCs whose data needs custom mapping or interpretation.
NATIVE PROTOCOL SUPPORT

SPEAK THE LANGUAGE
YOUR FLOOR ALREADY SPEAKS.

Connect natively over MTConnect, FANUC FOCAS, OPC-UA, EtherNet/IP and Allen-Bradley, Siemens S7, Modbus TCP, MQTT, Heidenhain LSV-2, and the emerging standards builders are converging toward. Already invested in Kepware? Use it as a data source and keep the driver library you paid for.

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Native means richer, and that matters

A native protocol connection carries states, counts, alarms, load data, and controller variables. That depth is what separates a monitoring tool from an execution platform, and it's why the protocol path is always preferred where one exists.
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CNC CONTROLS
FANUC, Siemens, Okuma, Mazak, Brother, Heidenhain, and the rest of the builders on real floors, across current and legacy generations.
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PLCS
EtherNet/IP, Siemens S7, and Modbus TCP with tag-level and memory mapping for auxiliary and fabrication equipment.
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EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
Kepware and OPC-UA interoperability, so prior investment becomes an input rather than a sunk cost.
LEGACY AND NON-NETWORKED MACHINES

THE THIRTY-YEAR-OLD MACHINE
STILL MAKES MONEY.

It should also report. Digital I/O captures activity, cycles, and states from equipment with outdated controls or no network interface at all, using I/O modules and gateways that fit the electrical reality of older machines. And where a machine's part counts are unreliable or absent, Virtual Part Counter learns its production pattern per job and computes accurate counts algorithmically, including historical backfill.

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Honest about the ceiling

An I/O connection carries less than a native protocol — activity and cycles, not controller internals. We state that per machine rather than papering over it, because a connection that overpromises is worse than one that's understood.
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DIGITAL I/O
Sensor and relay-based connection for machines with no usable control interface.
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VIRTUAL PART COUNTER
Accurate counts computed algorithmically where the machine can't report them, with historical backfill.
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THE WHOLE FLEET REPORTS
The long tail stops being the part of the plant nobody has data for.
EXTERNAL SENSORS AND CONDITIONS

ADD A SENSOR
IN AN AFTERNOON.

Bringing a sensor online used to mean a systems integrator engagement that cost more than the insight was worth. Add an IO-Link device as a data source in settings and start capturing — vibration, pressure, flow, fluid level, temperature, humidity — drawing on an ecosystem of tens of thousands of sensors across vendors, with native support for ifm and anything speaking IO-Link.

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Conditions in production context

Externally sensed values land in the same platform as machine and job data, so coolant flow, vibration, and ambient conditions are analyzed alongside what the machine was actually doing when they changed.
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SELF-SERVICE
Added in platform settings, with no integrator engagement and no disruptive installation.
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ANY IO-LINK DEVICE
Native ifm support and an open protocol, which puts tens of thousands of sensors in scope.
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BEYOND THE SPINDLE
Compressors, chillers, and facilities equipment reporting into the same model as the CNCs.
WHERE THE DATA GOES

YOUR MACHINE DATA.
NOT OUR HOSTAGE.

Machine data that feeds a closed tool forces your data strategy to route around it. Stream natively over MQTT into a unified namespace, query precisely through REST and GraphQL, trigger webhooks on events, and export to the BI environment your team already uses. Everything above connectivity — monitoring, OEE, MES, scheduling, condition monitoring, AI — runs on the same feed, with no separate historian project.

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One collection layer, every consumer

The same connection that powers execution feeds your enterprise architecture. You don't collect twice, and machine data becomes a citizen of the data strategy rather than a captive of its collection tool.
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UNS-NATIVE
MQTT streaming directly into unified namespace implementations.
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MODERN APIS
REST for compatibility, GraphQL for precise queries with real-time subscriptions.
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NO HISTORIAN PROJECT
Every capability above connectivity draws on the same feed, so there's nothing separate to stand up.

IF IT MAKES PARTS,
IT CAN REPORT.

Thousands of connected machine models in production today, across the full range of discrete manufacturing equipment.
01 MACHINING

Mills, lathes, and mill-turns.

Vertical and horizontal machining centers, five-axis cells, and gear hobbers across every major builder and control generation.
02 SWISS & MULTI-SPINDLE

High-mix precision turning.

Citizen, Cincom, Miyano, and Star platforms, including pallet pools and cells running concurrent jobs.
03 GRINDING & EDM

Tool, surface, and cylindrical.

Tool and cutter grinders, surface and cylindrical grinding, and both wire and sinker EDM.
04 FABRICATION

Lasers, brakes, and presses.

Press brakes, punches, stamping presses, roll formers, tube mills, and saws, through native protocols or PLC connection.
05 WELDING & ROBOTICS

Arms, cells, and power sources.

Robotic welders, welding power sources, robotic arms, and collaborative robots including Universal Robots.
06 MOLDING & FORMING

Process equipment.

Injection molding and related forming equipment reporting alongside the machining floor.
07 INSPECTION

CMMs.

Coordinate measuring machines reporting through MTConnect, so inspection joins the production record.
08 AUXILIARY & MANUAL

Benches and test stands.

Equipment without controllers via digital I/O, and non-machine work centers through station workflows — so the whole routing reports, not just the CNC floor.
See It In Action

Every promise in manufacturing software sits on top of the same unglamorous question: can you actually get trustworthy data out of all the machines, without a multi-year program. Connectivity captures operational data — states, cycles, counts, alarms, conditions. It does not collect part programs, CAM data, or engineering documentation, which keeps the sensitive-data surface small and the security review short. BUILT MACHINE-UP.

TESTIMONIALS

THE WHOLE FLEET, REPORTING.

Manufacturers with machines online in days, including the ones a previous vendor said weren't worth connecting.
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SIXTY MACHINES BEFORE LUNCH.

"To my amazement, it took all of about ninety minutes."

- Nick Chappell, VP Engineering

 

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EVERY MACHINE THEY HAD.

"What really made the difference with MachineMetrics is its ability to connect to all the machines that we had. It really wasn't a question."

- Phil Linscheid, Director of Manufacturing

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THE OLD MACHINES REPORT TOO.

Machines connected across an older JobBoss environment, with reason codes captured at the tablet the moment a machine sits, replacing paper charts collected over days and analyzed in the engineering room afterward.

 

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SEND US YOUR MACHINE LIST.
WE'LL TELL YOU WHAT REPORTS.

Including the older ones, and honestly what each connection path will and won't carry.

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