TrustRadius Insights for ThingWorx are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
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.
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
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. 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.
