In the warm spring breeze, the industry’s first “Grating Sensor Communication Protocol (NCEC) Specification for numerical control systems” association group standard was officially released.

On the morning of the 11th, at the CIMT2023 China International Machine Tool Exhibition, sponsored by the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the CNC System branch of the China Machine Tool Industry Association and the National Machine tool numerical control System Standardization Technical Committee, The T/CMTBA 1014-2023 “Grating Sensor Communication Protocol (NCEC) Specification for Numerical Control Systems” association group standard release and promotion meeting was successfully held in Beijing New International Exhibition Center, organized by Changchun Yuheng Optical Co., LTD. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology equipment a general machinery division Director Tang Jun, China Machine tool Industry Association rotating chairman, Guangzhou CNC Equipment Co., LTD. Chairman He Minjia, China Machine tool Industry Association executive vice chairman, association group standards working committee Chairman Guo Changcheng, national tool standardization Technical Committee, national measuring instrument standardization Technical Committee Secretary-General Xu Gang, Chen Hongjun, deputy secretary general of the Lathe Branch of China Machine Tool Industry Association, Zhao Hu, president of Guangzhou Machine Tool Association and chairman of Guangzhou Minjia Manufacturing Technology Co., LTD., Zhang Hangjun, Secretariat of the National Machine Tool numerical control System Standardization Technical Committee, and Sheng Shouqing, general manager of Changchun Yuheng Optical Co., LTD., and Lin Changyou, former chairman and other leaders and guests attended the meeting.

Guo Changcheng, executive Vice chairman of China Machine Tool Industry Association and chairman of the Standards Working Committee of the association, addressed the meeting. In his speech, he said that in 2019, Yuheng Optical proposed the NCEC protocol group standard proposal, and the association has demonstrated that the positioning of the standard is in line with the development needs of the industry and the market, and is also urgently needed by current users. The group bid was

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formally established in September 2020, led by Yuheng Optics, and drafted jointly with 14 leading enterprises in China’s machine tool numerical control system industry and upstream and downstream units of the industry, including Huazhong Numerical Control, Guangzhou Numerical Control, and Kede Numerical Control. He believes that in the process of drafting and formulating the standard, industry enterprises have a wide range of participation and a solid industry foundation. At the same time, he also pointed out that in the critical period of the digital transformation of the industry, in addition to the interconnection of CNC machine tools, the key and core functional components of machine tools should also have digital communication functions, so it is important to establish unified norms and standards; The development of NCEC group targets has laid the foundation for the collaboration between the industrial chain, opened up the domestic CNC system and grating sensor interconnection communication protocol, and hopes to publicize and promote as soon as possible, and get the recognition and application of machine tool enterprises, CNC system enterprises and user enterprises. Guo Changcheng, executive Vice president, on behalf of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, thanked the members of the drafting group for their hard work, and he called on the upstream and downstream of the industry to cooperate, implement the standard, and jointly contribute to the development of the machine tool industry!

Subsequently, relevant leaders from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Machine Tool Industry Association and other agreement review jointly pressed the starter button, symbolizing the official launch of the NCEC group label release and promotion work. After the launch ceremony, Yang Shang, assistant general manager of Changchun Yuheng Optical Co., LTD., the main drafting unit of the standard, explained and promoted the NCEC group standard on behalf of the drafting group, and asked “Why do NCEC?” What is NCEC? How to do NCEC?” Industry experts and enterprise representatives and members of the standard drafting group conducted a warm communication and exchange, Yang Shang assistant general manager on behalf of the standard drafting group answered the questions of on-site experts and enterprise representatives. With the advancement of the strategy of “intelligent Manufacturing 2025”, the interconnection of CNC equipment has become an inevitable trend. The protocol has the characteristics of high speed, security and flexibility, which has positive significance for the construction of China’s independent high-end numerical control system and data communication security, improving the competitiveness of China’s numerical control machine tools, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and maintaining national security.