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ThingWorx is an IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) development platform acquired by PTC in 2014 and merged with Axeda Machine Cloud in the same year, to expand PTC's development offerings.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/eL/DZ/JCNH3VEST2W8.jpegThinworx for the things you want to understand (or at least to watch, to start with)Support analytical and monitoring application development for a leading production company. The main task will be to cover industrial IoT solutions. The main task is to design and build reporting processes, mechanism for forwarding data, their combinations in reports and enable visibility in perfomance on the production line level. Initial use case comprises selected shop floor IT systems.,Aggregation of data from production controllers Drill down to details on a one device level Quick monitoring of extraordinary behavior of a monitored component,Until now can not think of any. Data acquisition was a problem initially - solved by connection server and splunk.,10,We do not track ROI on this client project. No negative imapacts - this is a monitoring initiative, we do not plan or control the production. The IoT stream just started in 2016. Successful is a use case in preventive maintenance (health monitoring of production assets on selected production lines). A potential improvement achieved in area of product painting / we aim at saving rework on the paint shop line (a percentage of products has to travel on not-optimial routes, due to outages on some robot work places),,JIRA Software, Microsoft Power BI, Atlassian Confluence, Google Analytics Premium, Google Tag Manager, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect,,2,Monitoring live production data on selected produciton lines Verification of changes to the implemented production procedures / new equipment set-up Reporting regular daily (per shift), weekly and monthly data Finding correlation of monitored machine data with hypothesis on why ïnefficiency happens, why a rework is necessary, what preceded an outage of a work position (forwarder, robotic workplace component),Non technically: the shopfloor management now wants to monitor all systems. Which is not feasible, since data are not possible to obtain from all controllers. But a nice mind shift.,Enlarge thingworx footprint on other production lines, connect more sensors/devices/data forwarders etc.,10,No,Price Product Features Product Usability Analyst Reports,I would assess how mobile friendly the solution is. A mobile friendly app should be easy to create, deploy and maintain. Not the case unfortunatelly.WaterWorX - a platform built on ThingWorxWe are a specialist systems integrator working in the water sector, developing water and wastewater treatment and distribution system solutions in the industrial, environmental and municipal sectors. I became interested in Thingworx just as the IOT was emerging as a significant transformation technology in industrial automation. I have a background as a senior engineer in the specification of industry 3.0 water monitoring control and automation. When I first met the Thingworx founding team in late 2011, I was blown away by the performance and concept underlying ThingWorx. As a domain expert, I no longer had to express my requirements in a classical requirements spec, I could develop it in an agile way, continuously improving the data model as my understanding of the application became more sophisticated. The ability to then build a mashup in the same time it took to develop a PowerPoint slide deck was a revelation. I discovered later that I still need an FRS but it became a strategic roadmap rather than customised local solution. Since those early days, the platform has gone from strength to strength, and now it is past its critical mass and is attracting a strong partner community. As a small, but long-standing partner, I'm confident that the future of our WaterWorX platform will accelerate due to our reliance on ThingWorx to power our smart water applications.,The ThingWorx modeling is simple enough to explain to non-specialists but very powerful in its expression. Mashup builder and analytics utilities are strong and the latest version automates some of the complexity, although I haven't used them yet. As the Kepware tools and libraries have become more integrated, the platform has an unrivaled set of interface solutions.,The MQTT interface needs improvement, its crashed during development of new entities on a frequent basis. The standard time series and trend tools are very basic and dont compare well with Top-end historians but its possible with some relative easy interfacing to use 3rd party applications. Care, forethought and experience is required when building complex applications, it's difficult to delete entities once the network becomes large and complex. N+Maintaining synchronicity between multiple dev and productions systems has to be carefully managed.,10,Our v-business is built on ThingWorx High impact.Easy and simple architecture and deployment tool of IoT platformIt is being used to remote monitor industrial printers on the AWS cloud.,Easy to design web pages for special purposes or for customers Easy to configure and manage an IoT device Simple solution for connectivity,Limitation of install edge program on a custom platform such as Windows CE Difficult to manage a complicated system Difficult to use with custom program written in C# Graphical language -- not programming language,9,Good for quick deployment of customer specific control of IoT Good for quick test of IoT platform Difficult to debug complicate system,,Amazon Web Services, VMware Player, JIRA Service Desk
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October 31, 2017

ThingWorx Review: "Thinworx for the things you want to understand (or at least to watch, to start with)"

Viktor Mulac
Score 10 out of 10
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Support analytical and monitoring application development for a leading production company. The main task will be to cover industrial IoT solutions. The main task is to design and build reporting processes, mechanism for forwarding data, their combinations in reports and enable visibility in perfomance on the production line level. Initial use case comprises selected shop floor IT systems.
  • Aggregation of data from production controllers
  • Drill down to details on a one device level
  • Quick monitoring of extraordinary behavior of a monitored component
  • Until now can not think of any. Data acquisition was a problem initially - solved by connection server and splunk.
Using for device tracking on the shopfloor and event monitoring:
- Smooth deployment, easy to couple to devices.
- Easy cooperation with splunk, that we use also.
- Finally after connecting to deviced (machine data logs), quick definition and implementation of application
- Intuitive environment, easy querying.
- Can handle virtually any data type we found.
- And it works in cloud - a major benefit in our setup.
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May 30, 2017

Review: "WaterWorX - a platform built on ThingWorx"

Laurie Reynolds
Score 10 out of 10
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We are a specialist systems integrator working in the water sector, developing water and wastewater treatment and distribution system solutions in the industrial, environmental and municipal sectors. I became interested in Thingworx just as the IOT was emerging as a significant transformation technology in industrial automation. I have a background as a senior engineer in the specification of industry 3.0 water monitoring control and automation.

When I first met the Thingworx founding team in late 2011, I was blown away by the performance and concept underlying ThingWorx. As a domain expert, I no longer had to express my requirements in a classical requirements spec, I could develop it in an agile way, continuously improving the data model as my understanding of the application became more sophisticated. The ability to then build a mashup in the same time it took to develop a PowerPoint slide deck was a revelation. I discovered later that I still need an FRS but it became a strategic roadmap rather than customised local solution.

Since those early days, the platform has gone from strength to strength, and now it is past its critical mass and is attracting a strong partner community. As a small, but long-standing partner, I'm confident that the future of our WaterWorX platform will accelerate due to our reliance on ThingWorx to power our smart water applications.
  • The ThingWorx modeling is simple enough to explain to non-specialists but very powerful in its expression.
  • Mashup builder and analytics utilities are strong and the latest version automates some of the complexity, although I haven't used them yet.
  • As the Kepware tools and libraries have become more integrated, the platform has an unrivaled set of interface solutions.
  • The MQTT interface needs improvement, its crashed during development of new entities on a frequent basis.
  • The standard time series and trend tools are very basic and dont compare well with Top-end historians but its possible with some relative easy interfacing to use 3rd party applications.
  • Care, forethought and experience is required when building complex applications, it's difficult to delete entities once the network becomes large and complex. N+Maintaining synchronicity between multiple dev and productions systems has to be carefully managed.
Well-suited - multiple streams from many data sources, highly scalable application scenarios.

Less appropriate - Large complex one-off process plants with complex logic at the edge.
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September 02, 2016

ThingWorx Review: "Easy and simple architecture and deployment tool of IoT platform"

Wonoh Kim
Score 9 out of 10
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It is being used to remote monitor industrial printers on the AWS cloud.
  • Easy to design web pages for special purposes or for customers
  • Easy to configure and manage an IoT device
  • Simple solution for connectivity
  • Limitation of install edge program on a custom platform such as Windows CE
  • Difficult to manage a complicated system
  • Difficult to use with custom program written in C#
  • Graphical language -- not programming language
Good for a quick test of internet of things (IoT) connectivity and for deploying access via the web.
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10.0

About ThingWorx

ThingWorx is an IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) development platform acquired by PTC in 2014 and merged with Axeda Machine Cloud in the same year, to expand PTC's development offerings.
Categories:  M2M Application Development,  Internet of Things (IoT)

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