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The Manufacturing Message Specification is an application layer Standard designed to support messaging communications to and from programmable devices in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. This environment is referred to in this Standard as the manufacturing environment. This Standard does not specify a complete set of services for remote programming of devices, although provision of such a set of services may be the subject of future standardization efforts.

This standard covers both active and passive aspects of the electrical interface between the Numerical Control (NC) and the machine power and logic control, motor drive equipment, and other electrical apparatus on or associated with the machine tool. It covers: