CONTEC Co., Ltd. announced that it will start sales of its multi-vendor-compliant "M2M Gateway for PLC;" a PLC data collection device that has been developed from CONTEC's IoT-era-opening, comprehensive solution brand "CONPROSYS" and that can collect the internal data of PLCs made by various companies from up to 10 connections; as of August 31. M2M Gateway for PLC supports up to 10 Ethernet/computer link connections, enables simultaneous connections to PLCs made by different manufacturers, and also has a variety of features. Multi-vendor support for PLCs and Modbus devices made by various companies The PLCs made by various companies are supported, and PLCs made by different manufacturers can be connected at the same time. Modbus devices made by various companies are also supported. Up to 10 Ethernet/computer link connections are possible. The data of a total of 100 group registers from 30 PLCs can be collected. For Modbus, up to 1,000 data entries can be mapped. CONTEC provides data collection software for use on Windows PCs free of charge. Installing this software on a Windows PC on a local network makes it possible to store data. The collected data can be processed on the device. The user can set the execution process by combining icons such as those for operations, conditional branching, and data output to create a flow chart.