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Thinworx for the things you want to understand (or at least to watch, to start with)
October 31, 2017

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

Viktor Mulac | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ThingWorx

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.
  • 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)
E.g. splunk and SAB BO, currently also Power BI
Other areas: Blockchain development - Ethereum (EVM) on Solidity
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.

Using ThingWorx

Data scientist
Programmer
Statistitian
IT & Business Consultant
2 - Developers / Admin
  • 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.
We started more than a year ago and do not plan to replace it

Evaluating ThingWorx and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Analyst Reports
Decision of a client, who uses thingworx, among others, in its IT landscape as a standard solution. The above are valid for their selection.
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.