Abstract
Smart Manufacturing (SM) systems often use the internet for communication. Sensors, platforms, and services that communicate in SM need to securely connect to internet and communicate with one another in a standard language. An increasingly popular language for communication in IoT in general and more specifically for hardware in manufacturing is MTConnect. The goal of this work is to demonstrate an approach for development of a platform compatible with MTConnect that performs high frequency data acquisition from machines, processes collected data, and securely interacts with Internet and web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for cloud computing and web interactions. The proposed platform consists of two separate sections, a Local Area Network (LAN) and an Internet Area Network (IAN). The LAN communicates with machines via MTConnect, performs fog computations, and transfers data to the IAN. The IAN receives high frequency data from LAN. The platform facilitates several tasks such as inserting data to a database, fetching data to apps, sending messages and notifications, and communicating with web services such as Amazon Web Services and Particle Clouds.