Softing’s echocollect now offers the opportunity to provide higher level systems with numeric control data from Siemens SINUMERIK 840D for instance for OEE and MES tasks. Echocollect is a gateway between PLCs linked via serial connection or Ethernet and data bases (Oracle, dB2, MySQL, MS-SQL) or ERP applications (e.g. SAP). For this purpose, echocollect supports the communication protocols of various PLC manufacturers. Even distributed process data are collected nonreactive and passed on as proc
