This book answers the question, "how and why a royalty-free and open source standard is revolutionizing the business and technology of manufacturing." This is the world's first book on MTConnect and open systems. This book is not just about MTConnect, but it is first a book that discusses the many lessons learned in the world of open systems. MTConnect will be more important in the 21st century for manufacturing than CNC was for manufacturing in the 20th century. -John Byrd Former President of AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology I am very glad to see that MTConnect continues to...