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What is 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.
A One-Stop Shop for your needs in Digital/MES/IIoT solution, ThingWorx brings live data to the cloud and beyond
Purpose-constructed IIoT platform
Industrial Connectivity, Data Visualization and Analytics All-in-one suite
Simply IoT implementation with Analytics integration using ThingWorx.
ThingWorx - a thing that works and delivers.
End To End IoT Platform Product
An ultra-versatile IoT software platform.
Thinworx for the things you want to understand (or at least to watch, to start with)
WaterWorX - a platform built on ThingWorx
Easy and simple architecture and deployment tool of IoT platform
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- IoT Device Management (7)8.585%
- IoT Integration (7)8.181%
- Device Security (7)7.979%
- IoT Analytics (7)7.373%
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What is 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.
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PTC ThingWorx, Teamviewer and Device Authority: Demo of a connected water pump unit
ThingWorx Studio Robot Demo
ThingWorx Kepware Server Configuration API Demo
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Features
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices resulting from the proliferation of sensors and Internet-aware devices of every kind.
- 8.5IoT Device Management(7) Ratings
Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.
- 7.9Device Security(7) Ratings
Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.
- 7.5IoT Data Management(6) Ratings
Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.
- 7.3IoT Analytics(7) Ratings
Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.
- 8.1IoT Integration(7) Ratings
Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.
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ThingWorx, a leading platform in the industrial IoT space, offers a range of use cases that have been positively received by users. One of its key functionalities is supporting analytical and monitoring application development for production companies. Users have found ThingWorx helpful in designing and building reporting processes, as well as mechanisms for forwarding data and creating combinations in reports. This enables greater visibility into performance at the production line level. Additionally, ThingWorx seamlessly integrates with other technologies and tools such as ThingWorx Studio and Kepware.
ThingWorx finds applications in various industries including pulp & paper, consumer goods, and heavy industry. It is utilized to monitor asset health, optimize processes through analytics, and provide plant-level alerts for faster decision-making. The software's versatility extends to creating MES-like solutions that incorporate data from different sources like the plant floor, databases, and Azure. Specialists in the water sector have also leveraged ThingWorx to control and monitor manufacturing systems while implementing industry 4.0 strategies and technologies.
This platform offers a flexible and agile approach to application development, which allows users to continuously improve their data model as they gain a deeper understanding of their application. ThingWorx has a strong partner community and is relied upon to power smart water applications, accelerating the future of the WaterWorX platform. It is also suitable for IoT use cases in smart cities and digital twin initiatives. Users find ThingWorx to be an end-to-end software app platform for IoT projects, facilitating app deployment and data management with integrated features and modules. Furthermore, customers appreciate the excellent customer service provided by ThingWorx during the learning curve associated with the software.
Efficient and Effective Data Aggregation: Multiple users have praised the platform for its efficient and effective aggregation of data from production controllers, providing them with a comprehensive overview of the system's performance.
Thorough Monitoring and Analysis: Several reviewers appreciated the ability to drill down into the details of individual devices, allowing for thorough monitoring and analysis. This feature enables users to closely track the performance of each device and identify any potential issues.
Quick Monitoring Capabilities: Many users have highlighted the platform's quick monitoring capabilities in identifying and addressing extraordinary behavior exhibited by monitored components. This functionality allows for swift action to be taken, ensuring optimal system performance.
Difficult to Use: Some users have found the software challenging to navigate and understand due to its wide range of functionalities, which has required a significant amount of time for them to grasp and utilize effectively.
Complicated System Management: Multiple reviewers have mentioned that managing a complex system with the software can be quite challenging, as it requires careful attention and meticulous management in order to maintain synchronicity between multiple development and production systems.
Limited UI Creation Options: Users have expressed frustration with the graphical language used for UI creation in the software, stating that it is limiting compared to reporting services. They feel that it restricts their ability to create visually appealing and dynamic user interfaces.
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(1-10 of 10)A One-Stop Shop for your needs in Digital/MES/IIoT solution, ThingWorx brings live data to the cloud and beyond
- 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.
Purpose-constructed IIoT platform
- less coding efforts
- supported with augmented reality
- remote monitoring
- data security
- built-in core tools
- wide range of functionalities are offered, which requires time to understand
- Facilitates industrial connections between equipment of different protocols.
- Visualizes data in a quickly readable and valuable format with minimal coding.
- Provides easily usable data analytics functionality that can feed back into the system.
- Advanced functionality in control and data visualization often requires additional coding from the user.
- Support and tutorials provided are often lacking in detail or are not readily transferable.
- Mashup development works poorly on small monitors or laptops.
- Data Integration.
- Accuracy of information collected.
- Easy to use interfaces.
- Improve documentation.
- Provide YouTube video tutorials.
- Integration with other products.
ThingWorx - a thing that works and delivers.
- Highly integrated.
- Good customer service.
- End to end coverage.
- Tools could be expanded.
- Take into account customer feedback.
- Scaling
End To End IoT Platform Product
- Automating the whole business process
- It utilizes IoT ecosystem to the maximum level.
- Digital transformation is easily done.
- Customer support
- Trial subscription should be increased
- Should be developed in order to integrate few more modules
An ultra-versatile IoT software platform.
- Quick monitoring of extraordinary behaviour of a monitored component
- As the Kepware tools and libraries have become more integrated, the platform has an unrivalled set of interface solutions.
- Modelling is simple enough to explain to non-specialists but very powerful in its expression.
- It's difficult to delete entities once the network becomes large and complex. N+Maintaining synchronicity between multiple devs and productions systems has to be carefully managed.
- Difficult to manage a complicated system
- MQTT interface needs improvement
Thinworx for the things you want to understand (or at least to watch, to start with)
- 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.
- 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.
WaterWorX - a platform built on ThingWorx
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.
Less appropriate - Large complex one-off process plants with complex logic at the edge.
Easy and simple architecture and deployment tool of IoT platform
- 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