Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
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SAP Digital Manufacturing
Score 9.0 out of 10
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SAP Digital Manufacturing solution is a cloud-deployed manufacturing execution system (MES) that supports sustainable, risk-resilient manufacturing operations through an Industry 4.0 approach. The software creates visibility across the top floor and shop floor, precision execution of production processes, and aims to improve operator productivity with machine learning for visual inspection.
Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
SAP Digital Manufacturing is a solid solution for discrete manufacturing since it covers most of the scenarios you could expect from this industry. Where SAP Digital Manufacturing still have some room for improvement is for process industry due to its rigidity when it comes to configurations so a little bit more of flexibility would be beneficial for some clients so they dont feel the need of complex customizations
We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
A 10 would say I have nothing to wish for. A 9 means I haven't seen anything better.This tool really helps you in the whole creation and maintenace cycle, so from requirements to building/modeling to testing to deploying to capturing feedback.
1. Modern cloud-based platform integrated with SAP applications 2. Real Time production visibility and traceability 3. Flexible extensionality like core extensions, in app extensions, Custom POD plugin extensions, integration extensions etc. Good integration with third part systems. 4. Effective shopfloor execution capabilities. 5. Strong POD UI for shopfloor users 6. Rework and Quality management
Response times are quick and you will get updates regularly about the status of your request. Even with very technical questions they have specialists that can help you with your problems it will give you an answer or help you with a work around.
Mendix would be my preferred system all the way. The system is designed for these kinds of works. I've worked with WP and DNN but they should be used just for websites. To create an app for a business value, I would suggest Mendix. Also, the offline capabilities of Mendix have greatly improved since the deployment of Mendix 7.13.
So far I have not explore other product other than SAP Digital Manufacturing because our core business offer is on MES. However, we are planning on explore some ERP development capabilities, specially to open up an space to asset management module which can bring a lot of value to our clients.
It helps to speed up application development because of its low code by the fact that it's low code. It allows professional developers to focus more on specialized application development rather than the more routine application development that business IT and super users can do for themselves with some coaching from the IT department. So it's just allowing the more specialist professional developers.net, for example, Java in our organization to focus on more complex engineering application developments.
