PTC Thingworx - IIoT Platform

 

PTC

PTC is a Leader in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant. 

Observed and verifiable industrial use cases include asset monitoring and predictive maintenance of multiple in-field assets. PTC focuses increasingly on IoT applications, mainly manufacturing-OEM-related applications.  PTC increasingly leverages the Microsoft Azure IoT stack to support horizontal ThingWorx IoT-related middleware functionality for scale, device management and other capabilities.

Strengths

PTC’s go-to-market and R&D efforts with Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk.

PTC offers very high-quality service and support. ThingWorx has a strong proven ability to support customers for a full, on-premises deployment of an IIoT platform able to operate in a disconnected scenario.

Cautions

PTC’s digital twin offers limited support to industrial owner-operators of industrial assets.

https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/iiot/product-brief/thingworx-platform

https://www.ptc.com/en/industry-insights/digital-twin

ThingWorx Rockwell FactoryTalk MES Integration

The ThingWorx Rockwell FactoryTalk MES extension integrates information between ThingWorx and Rockwell FactoryTalk MES systems. The extension includes the following components:

• The equipment converter thing (PTC.RA.EquipmentConverter) containing the ThingWorx Flow integration services used by the FactoryTalk MOM connector.

• The thing templates and thing shapes necessary for converting Rockwell FactoryTalk MES plant model objects to things in ThingWorx.

The following products are used in the integration:

• ThingWorx 8.5 with a ThingWorx Enterprise license

For more information, see the 8.5 System Requirements in the ThingWorx Help Center.

• ThingWorx Flow 8.5

• ThingWorx Apps 8.5

• ThingWorx Rockwell FactoryTalk MES extension 8.5

• A Rockwell FactoryTalk MES system (Modular Framework WebSDK 4.1 MR1)

For more information, see:

◦ FTPC Plant Operations Server Installation Guide — JBoss Advanced, release 10.4

◦ FTPC Plant Operations Server Installation Guide — JBoss Stand-Alone, release 10.4

◦ FactoryTalk ProductionCentre Modular Framework WebSDK 4.1 Rest Developer’s Guide

https://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx_apps/r8.5/en/index.html#page/thingworx_apps/FactoryTalk_MES/thingworx_rockwell_factorytalk_mes_integration.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/success-paths/thingworx-manufacturing/design/document-your-integration-and-connectivity-strategy

https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/iiot/5-essential-software-for-manufacturing

Digital Manufacturing Solutions

Fully optimized factories are elusive targets. Smart manufacturing solutions can unlock new levels of innovation, productivity, and growth.

https://www.ptc.com/en/solutions/digital-manufacturing