ThingWorx

We used Thingworx an IoT solution to improve the efficiency of our client's industrial processes. Thingworx used to reduce the amount of effort and complexity involved in integrating third-party apps by developing and deploying Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that accelerate time to market. Thingworx featured with its own framework - Thing Model Framework. Which provides effortless integration with other technologies and tools, such as ThingWorx Studio, Kepware.

• various features to represent data
• cloud, on-premise or hybrid model included
• SDKs and REST APIs available

• increase operational efficiency
• reduce cost

MongoDB, Oracle Java Cloud

We use ThingWorx as a means of industrial connection and control of model manufacturing systems for research into the implementation of industry 4.0 strategies and technologies in the modern factory. Primary functionalities used are the industrial connections established by Kepware, the data visualization and control achieved through ThingWorx mashups, and the data analysis functions that allow us to make our data valuable and usable. In our lab, ThingWorx controls and monitors six-axis robots and model manufacturing demonstrators which contain various robotic and motor actions, vision systems, and other sensors.

• Kepware industrial connectivity.
• ThingWorx mashup data visualization.
• ThingWorx data analytics functionalities.

• The use of ThingWorx as a near-complete, full-stack industry 4.0 solution has been at the forefront of recent and ongoing research.

We looked for an end-to-end IoT solution where we will be able to perform the total use case of the project. It gives us the capability, readiness of the software to establish quick growth and definitely saves time to develop the product. This basically made our work very easier in terms of development, deployment, usability, enhancements, etc.

• Automation
• Less code
• End to end platform for an IoT project

• Very positive on saving time
• Very positive on saving cost
• Less positive on the support

We use it to deploy such solutions in the most varied types of customers, from pulp & paper, consumer goods, heavy industry, and whatever industry you can think of. It's mainly focused on monitoring asset health, optimizing processes through the analytics extension, and providing plant-level alerts for faster decision-making. ThingWorx is great if you want to create an MES-like solution for your company, but have data coming not only from the plant floor, but also from databases, azure, and others.

• Aggregation of data from production controllers
• The ThingWorx modeling is simple enough to explain to non-specialists but very powerful in its expression.
• As the Kepware tools and libraries have become more integrated, the platform has an unrivaled set of interface solutions.

• Good for quick test of IoT platform
• Successful is a use case in preventive maintenance (health monitoring of production assets on selected production lines).
• Good for quick deployment of customer specific control of IoT

Google Analytics, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (formerly Fluidmesh) and Microsoft Power BI

Jira Software, Google Analytics, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

ThingWorx is a solution-focused on IIoT, helping companies transition into the digital world. Through Thingworx and its modules, we can connect live data on the plant floor to the platform on the cloud, monitoring assets' health and its functioning. All through secure protocols that are always updated. We use it to deploy such solutions in the most varied types of customers, from pulp & paper, consumer goods, heavy industry, and whatever industry you can think of. It's mainly focused on monitoring asset health, optimizing processes through the analytics extension, and providing plant-level alerts for faster decision-making.

• Seamless connection to the plant floor through OPCServer called Kepware.
• TWX analytics can help in process improvement and help customers understand the barriers their processes face.
• Integration with Vuforia allows it to create a repository for augmented reality solutions.
• Integration with SSO can make it easier for companies to adopt the solution, diminishing the number of times a user needs to log on.

• ThingWorx drastically increased our volume of projects in digital solutions, before TWX we used to work on 1/2 projects a year. Now we have around 10 projects running at the same time, that only in my region.
• For customers I noticed an increase in satisfaction when talking about an MES system, TWX does a great job in being a one-stop-shop for all things MES.

Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL