PTC to expand it’s industrial IoT tech offering with the launch of ThingWorx 8 platform

Kathleen Mitford of PTC

LiveWorx®17, PTC announced the latest version of its ThingWorx® Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform – ThingWorx 8.

With this update, PTC aims to evolve ThingWorx into a more robust and comprehensive Industrial IoT technology offering for businesses looking to accelerate Industrial IoT value.

ThingWorx 8 reportedly features enhanced platform capabilities, role-specific applications for engineering and manufacturing, a substantial ecosystem of partners and customers, more expansive educational programs, and a new collection of service offerings designed for Industrial IoT customers and partners. The new version will be commercially available on June 8, 2017.

The company maintains that ThingWorx is already one of the fastest, most complete ways for Industrial IoT solution builders to unlock the value of the convergence between the physical and digital worlds.

“We have been committed to making ThingWorx the most complete, effective platform for companies to quickly and easily tap into the value of the Industrial IoT,” said Kathleen Mitford, executive vice president, Product and Market Strategy, PTC. “With ThingWorx 8, we are taking ThingWorx beyond its core platform capabilities with new role-based apps for manufacturing. The combination of our market-leading Industrial IoT platform and these new apps are specifically designed to quickly deliver value to companies investing in the Industrial IoT.”

The ThingWorx Platform delivers the functionality, flexibility, and agility that companies need to quickly develop and deploy Industrial IoT apps and cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) experiences. This includes industrial connectivity, analytics, application enablement, orchestration, and codeless AR experience authoring.

“The combination of the ThingWorx IoT ecosystem and our existing production systems offers us the connectivity and detailed analytics to rapidly visualise our operations, enabling further productivity and quality improvement,” said Justin Hester, senior researcher, HIROTEC Corporation. “ThingWorx complements HIROTEC’s expertise in world-class manufacturing, as opposed to forcing HIROTEC to adapt to ThingWorx.”

With ThingWorx 8, the ThingWorx Platform is now said to offer such native platform functionality as industrial connectivity, anomaly detection, and deeper cloud support for leading cloud providers. New features found in ThingWorx 8 have been specifically designed to further the platform’s ability to make the development, deployment, and extension of Industrial IoT applications quick and easy.

In addition to these capabilities, ThingWorx Studio now supports native authoring and publishing of AR experiences for Microsoft HoloLens. ThingWorx Studio is a codeless authoring environment that enables content creators to quickly create, deploy, and consume AR experiences.

With ThingWorx Studio in ThingWorx 8, content creators and developers can use the codeless AR development capabilities of ThingWorx Studio to quickly create clear, compelling experiences for the Microsoft HoloLens.

Introducing ThingWorx manufacturing apps

Building on the success of the ThingWorx Navigate™ app, PTC is introducing a new line-up of apps for manufacturing that are designed to make it easier for companies to realise value and benefit from greater agility in their operations.

The ThingWorx manufacturing apps are fast to deploy, offer role-based intelligence for proactive, faster decision making, allow for codeless app extensibility for continued innovation, and can be downloaded for free and deployed in production in under one hour.

The ThingWorx manufacturing apps consist of:

    • ThingWorx Controls Advisor – remotely monitor and troubleshoot machine connectivity.
    • ThingWorx Asset Advisor – remotely monitor physical assets in real-time, automatically detect anomalies, and trigger alerts to improve efficiency and quality.
    • ThingWorx Production Advisor – provide real-time visibility and insight into production line performance and status.

More information on the ThingWorx manufacturing apps is available here.

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