Updated April 25, 2022

A One-Stop Shop for your needs in Digital/MES/IIoT solution, ThingWorx brings live data to the cloud and beyond

Item: ThingWorx
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Modules Used

ThingWorx Kepware Server
ThingWorx Manufacturing Apps
ThingWorx Navigate
ThingWorx Asset Advisor
ThingWorx Analytics

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Asset Monitoring - quick and easy to deploy, can connect to the plant floor and get real-time data from devices.
Analytics - The TWX Analytics extension has a variety of analyses that can be done into any data source input into TWX.
Alerts notification - you can program alerts to be sent via email/SMS seamlessly.

UI creation - some features that one is accustomed to using reporting services are not allowed in TWX, such as within a table, directly use aggregate functions such as count, max, min, etc. You need to create specific services in order to accomplish that
Even when working with a SQL data source, you cannot easily create a PK that auto increments, you need to create a service to that for you, and is not that simple.

Most Important Features

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.

Return on Investment

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.

Key Insights

Do you think ThingWorx delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ThingWorx's feature set?

Yes

Did ThingWorx live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of ThingWorx go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ThingWorx again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL

Likelihood to Recommend

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. You can seamlessly integrate those data and create reports like visuals and mashups. It is also a great solution if you have multiple plants and need to monitor everyone simultaneously and even compare results between locations. ThingWorx is not recommended if all you need is a BI solution, it is not a reporting software and it should not be used as it.