PTC ThingWorx

PTC ThingWorx is the platform, it is intended for assembly and applications launch of the operating network world. With its help it is possible to reduce time, finance costs and to reduce the risks connected with assembly of the innovation applications for intellectual network products.

2020: ThingWorx 9.0: increase in error-free running time, reducing costs for service

On June 25, 2020 the PTC Inc company (Parametric Technology Corporation) reported that ThingWorx 9 is equipped with a full range of the additional and updated functions which will increase error-free running time, will reduce housekeeping overheads and will increase efficiency of your enterprise.

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As leaders of business in the different industries look for the industrial IoT platform which promises digital conversion and meets their scales and safety requirements, PTC provides them the platform which not only meets these requirements, but also gives the chance of the fast and informative analysis for an output of the innovation products to the market.

ThingWorx 9 allows the organizations to increase availability, scalability, working capacity and deployment. Additional opportunities of IIoT expand connectivities and add enhanced capabilities of modeling and assessment in analytics.

2019: ThingWorx 8.5

PTC announced in August, 2019 the forthcoming release of the ThingWorx Industrial IoT (IIoT) platform from showroom of an action for the digital LiveWorx conversion. ThingWorx 8.5 combines new opportunities with the solutions of world level focused on specific data domain for the best satisfaction of requirements of industrial enterprises around the world in the field of digital transformation.

Among new and enhanced capabilities - the tools simplifying drawing up and deployment of solutions. Clients will be able quicker to configure applications and to unroll them on several websites and ​​ in different regions. For those who want to receive more ready-made solutions ThingWorx also offers the ready, previously configured opportunities for design, production and service. This latest version of ThingWorx provides the improved integration into Microsoft Azure IoT and includes additional tools for deployment of enterprise-wide solutions.

Functional solutions

Engineering

The long story of PTC in a support area of digital needs of designers and engineers is confirmed by numerous improvements in ThingWorx 8.5. The new ThingWorx Navigate application for management of digital changes, the first in a series, allows internal and external users to participate actively in the major control function by changes. The new ThingWorx Navigate Contribute Apps series will expand a popular packet of PTC NavigateView ™ which does valuable information easily accessible and facilitates cooperation in scales of all enterprise. Thanks to a digital stream engineers will have access in real time to data on the connected products in ThingWorx now to manage product development of the next generation.

Production

Thanks to participation of Rockwell Automation in the field of domain names of PTC offers a broad spectrum of solutions for the solution of the main objectives of producers. During LiveWorx this week PTC and Rockwell Automation show as their solutions consisting of advanced technologies, such as IIoT, augmented reality, analytics and MES can improve considerably operational intelligence of the enterprise, performance of digital labor power, intellectual optimization of assets and scalable production management., ThingWorx 8.5 is compatible to FactoryTalk Analytics of Rockwell Automation company now. Besides, PTC will release ThingWorx Kepware Edge to provide flexible deployment of reliable and safe connections for the dispersed equipment.

2018: Microsoft Azure is the main cloud platform for ThingWorx

On February 6, 2018 PTC announced the conclusion of the partnership agreement of page Microsoft. Are the cornerstone Microsoft Azure IoT of the joint solution also the industrial ThingWorx platform which symbiosis will allow clients of the companies to create products and processes due to connection to different objects Internet of Things, structurization of data, coordination of different business systems and methods of interaction of users based on the mixed reality. For expansion of capacity of these services it is possible to use a solution portfolio of PTC, including Creo also Windchill for design, production and service maintenance and also helmets of the mixed reality Microsoft HoloLens.

In the center of the agreement – the choice of PTC Microsoft Azure as the main cloud platform for manufacturing enterprises. Besides, PTC will provide the managed ThingWorx services based on Azure and additional services Azure, including Azure IoT Hub. ThingWorx in combination with Microsoft Azure IoT will give an opportunity to reduce product output time for the market, will accelerate iterative processes and making changes, will provide flexibility and access to the various technical information.

PTC and Microsoft are going to expand the list of the opportunities opening due to cooperation for clients in such industries as discrete, continued and hybrid production, including petrogas the industry and ENERGY INDUSTRY.

2017: Connector Ansys

In June, 2017 PTC also ANSYS presented the solution which will allow to add results of engineering calculations of ANSYS to the applications created on the PTC platform for Industrial Internet of Things ThingWorx. Development of the connector between these two technical engineering platforms will allow customers to transfer and use calculation results at operation of physical products in the real world of things. The connector will help to compare intellectual final and element models with physical products throughout lifecycle and to operate with results in the real world. It will open for engineers and developers of an opportunity for entering of valuable additions into the work at the expense of more flexible modes of operation of a product, correction of the mode of maintenance and also data integration about verification of mathematical models into process of final and element modeling.

Modeling helps the companies to analyze situations which can happen to products in the future – for example, failures in work – already at a design stage. If access to extensive historical data on operation of products is limited, the companies can use final and element models only for an expected set of the expected restrictions and loads of a product ("thing"). Data on real operation of products can be used in calculations together with the analysis and correction of loadings using the algorithms of machine learning which are built in PTC ThingWorx and to pass to predictive modeling using any solvers for payment with the finite-element method (KE). The continuous communication between real working conditions, digital simulation and machine learning will help producers quickly and to quickly use operational data that can lead to development of the verified predicative KE of models and much more transparent feedback loop for reconciliation of initial data when calculating and real loadings that allows to work construction and to accelerate development process of KE of models of products.

Technologies of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allow to create the digital double who integrates data on a physical product in real time with digital information with which engineers at product development operate and things. Use of digital doubles does products by more "smart" and simplifies understanding of how the product will behave in use. The combination of opportunities of the ThingWorx platform to the final and element ANSYS models will allow PTC and ANSYS customer companies to develop own powerful Internet-applications which will help to create own portals of producers for the analysis of the current operating conditions, to quickly reveal and diagnose the current problems with final and element models, to verify KE of model and to improve performance of own products. PTC and ANSYS will make possibilities of this solution available in the IoT applications developed on the ThingWorx platform.

2016: ThingWorx 7

On June 2, 2016 the PTC company announced an exit of release of ThingWorx of version 7.

Possibilities of ThingWorx 7 include an expanded set of management tools the connected products, powerful analytical opportunities, support of public clouds and the simplified platform components which help developers to use usual tools for a research, creation of prototypes and development of new solutions of IoT.

As a part of the platform one of the most full ranges of the integrated tools and functions of the development focused on IoT that simplifies development of multifunction solutions and accelerates their output to the market.

As a part of ThingWorx Utilities (before ThingWorx Converge) several ready tools helping the companies to manage, trace and obtain data.

• Control of attached devices – the companies can effectively define and set unique parameters of new intelligent devices during their development and create the configured dashboards for visualization of a status and utilization properties of the connected products.
• Management of warnings – the configured interface makes available notifications for all connected products that allows to reveal easily the device working not as it is necessary.
• Remote access and management – users can control far off attached devices, manage them and perform the operations connected with elimination of problems, rendering assistance to the operator, carrying out training and support of other scenarios of use of IoT-products.
• Management of program contents – provides the simple and protected mass distribution of digital contents among attached devices, for example, of updates for OS and applications and corrections of software.

ThingWorx Analytics increases the importance of data

This value of Internet of Things is put in data which are created and analyzed from attached devices and also in the speed with which these data can be turned into useful information for end users. In release of ThingWorx 7 the ThingWorx Analytics component is connected directly to thing model that simplifies and accelerates carrying out the expanded analysis, drawing up forecasts and issue of recommendations within solutions based on ThingWorx.

Developers are the focus of attention

The version of ThingWorx 7 is complemented with modern platform components which simplify to developers creating applications for the connected products. In ThingWorx 7 developers can use usual tools, for example Eclipse, or management tools the source code, for example Git, in such environment which allows to experiment with IoT-solutions and to quickly create prototypes.

2015

Offer of ThingWorx Converge

On July 28, 2015 the PTC company submitted the offer for Internet of Things — ThingWorx Converge.

The solution is intended for device management and connections, rapid application development. It supplements functionality of the ThingWorx platform, giving new opportunities for the companies which create, operate and service industrial products. According to developers, ThingWorx Converge will be interesting to application developers and the system integrators creating applications for such companies.

PTC ThingWorx Converge will serve as backbone site of Internet of Things in the company. It will provide more effective and secure access to devices and to the data generated by them, events and services; will allow to collect, to arrange and to visually display the acquired information. It will help the companies is more complete to use advantages of the intelligent interacting devices and will increase effect of investments into IoT-projects.

Functionality of ThingWorx Converge:

• Backbone site for data exchange in real time. The organizations can use Internet of Things in the existing corporate systems and business processes to increase products value at all production phases.

• The data model based on the advanced methodologies. The ready data model with standard modules of integration and ready management tools is developed for industrial products as a result of cooperation with thousands of industrial enterprises and constructed on the ThingWorx platform.

• Enhanced capabilities. Simple ready-made solutions in use for remote monitoring products and resources, for access and management of them allow to service more effectively clients, to provide better support and to increase convenience of work with products that as a result raises customer satisfaction.

Two main components of the ThingWorx platform

According to information for 2015 ThingWorx implements the complex strategy of security covering all levels, including security of network, applications, the user and data. The main data processing centers of ThingWorx are certified in ISO standards 27001:2013 and SafeHarbor.

The ThingWorx platform was initially projected taking into account requirements to security. Thanks to support of the latest Internet standards and architecture the ThingWorx platform allows to create the contextual focused environment for cooperation in real time with the high level of data security and users.

Two main components of the ThingWorx platform — the ThingWorx server and the ThingWorx Edge components, including Edge MicroServer (EMS) and different sets for developers SOFTWARE (SDK). The server makes user authentication and devices, mediates in data exchange between systems, people and things in a solution landscape and also as required manages data translation, their safety and business logic in applications for the end user. EMS allows devices to exchange safely data with the ThingWorx server and to be a full part of a landscape of the solution. EMS not just connects data, but also provides their preliminary intellectual processing.

During the work with ThingWorx the producer has an opportunity to use the best practices. First of all, the platform allows to carry out risks assessment — at first the basic, and then and all others. At the same time assessment procedure repeats at all stages — from design before operation. Also ThingWorx suggests the producer to define security requirements to guarantee the high level of safety of finished goods and accomplishment of all requirements of the customer to its protection.

ThingWorx platform safety features

(Data are relevant for 2015)

Authentication and authorization

ThingWorx supports HTTP-authentication — via the web interface with indication of pair the login password. If necessary the ThingWorx platform can delegate function authentications of credentials LDAP- a system (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), transferring it control of politicians of passwords — for example, control of expiration, use of the dictionary of passwords, the history of passwords and their reliability.

Besides, the connectivity of the models of authentication created by the customer or the partner taking into account specifics of the business processes is provided in the ThingWorx platform. Such possibility of expansion allows to release new authentication modules on the ThingWorx platform irrespective of release of major releases of software. The ThingWorx platform can support standard mechanisms — for example, SAML and also SSO integration.

Matrix Multi-Tenancy

Matrix Multi-Tenancy is the innovative technology of access control which is now in a stage of an execution of the patent. Matrix Multi-Tenancy allows to appoint the level of availability of a part of model to a certain user or an organization member according to the hierarchical structure set in it. The technology is based on the principle of visibility (Visibility) thanks to what the making models can be not visible to a certain part of users in principle.

Subsystem of magazines of security

The ThingWorx platform offers a full range of services of maintaining magazines at the level of the application, the mechanism of scenarios, configuration changes and also magazines of security. In the magazine all attempts of an input — both successful, and unsuccessful are fixed that allows to conduct detailed monitoring of access. Besides, the platform allows to collect the additional information — for example, to fix such events as "change of data" or "violation of threshold value".

Encoded storage of all confidential data

The ThingWorx platform stores confidential data and passwords on all solution components in encrypted form. If necessary it is possible to cipher optional data for storage, using the available enciphering functions.

Backup strategy of these applications

Special services for support of complete data backup of applications and also for the content services for export of configurations, model and data objects, their promotion on a landscape and for import of these objects on other servers are built in the ThingWorx Platform. The customers using capacities of DPC of ThingWorx receive periodically created backup copies of data, at the same time management of copies is not required.

Protection against widespread vulnerabilities

ThingWorx is developed based on industry the practician of safe coding — such as process of Software Development Lifecycle of Microsoft company, set of best practices Software Security Touchpoints of Cigital company, OWASP or SANS Top 10 standards. ThingWorx provides preventive protection against different threats, including the attacks with code injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). Besides, ThingWorx includes the procedures allowing to reveal vulnerabilities of a security system in flow outputs of batch production.

Protection from a backdoor threats

All calls of the program interface ThingWorx are public and use well proved security processes. All API interfaces require authentication, there is no opportunity to turn off enciphering to convert the ciphered data into the literal text.

Support of security of the transport layer (TLS, Transport Layer Security)

ThingWorx follows practical methods of the industry and uses only the TLS protocol instead of unsafe SSL. Clients of the Web server are recommended to use the standard HTTPS communications protocol (with the SSL protocol) that all data transferred on hardwired connection were protected. The communications protocol of the Edge MicroServer components at connection to the server is the standard industry WebSocket protocol (RFC 6455) working over the safe cryptographic TLS protocol. The Edge MicroServer components also support the HTTPS protocol.

Additional safety features

In addition to TLS enciphering all files transferred between the boundary device and the platform in both directions are ciphered before transfer and decrypted after receiving. For check that the file was transferred completely and without failures and also was not distorted intentionally, the MD5 hash is calculated it.

2014

Integration of PTC ThingWorx and Axeda into Salesforce Analytics Cloud

On October 13, 2014 it became known of integration of PTC ThingWorx and Axeda with Salesforce Analytics Cloud. The purpose of developers - to provide the customers tools of visual analytics using the data obtained from the intellectual, interconnected systems.

Continuing to implement the strategy of Internet of Things (loT), accelerating an output to the market of the intellectual, interconnected products, the PTC company announced accession to an ecosystem of Salesforce Analytics Cloud.

PTC will combine PTC ThingWorx and PTC Axeda Machine Cloud technologies for expansion of opportunities Wave, providing access to stream data transmission from the intellectual, interconnected products. Such integration will allow customers of PTC and Salesforce to browse the generated data in a unified environment. The analytical information obtained on the basis of these data will facilitate to business divisions development process of strategy of data analysis which will have considerable commercial value for customers.

Use of PTC and Analytics Cloud gives the chance of data translation to analytical information for business, obtaining additional benefits:

• Uniform format of analytical data of IoT in "cloud". The Axeda Machine Cloud technology from PTC accelerates joint work and offers customers a complete view of data of Internet of Things (loT) in different business applications.
• Competitive advantage of use of analytical data. The data obtained from the intellectual, interconnected products allow the commercial organizations to make more reasoned decisions which increase both consumer, and commercial value.
• Effective process of involvement of customers. Data transmission from the intellectual, interconnected products to the employees working with customers allows them to customize service for the best work of products, to warn addresses to a support service, to increase service quality.

Structure of the platform and advantage

(data are relevant for 2014)

ThingWorx Composer

The complex environment of modeling of applications allowing to create easily unique applications in the modern interconnected world. ThingWorx Composer simplifies the modellings of objects and business logic, visualization, data storage, joint work and security necessary for network applications.

Codeless Mashup Builder

ThingWorx Mashup Builder with a drag-and-drop feature allows developers and business users to create quickly multifunction interactive applications, monitoring panels in real time, area for joint work and mobile interfaces, without using for this purpose the code. Means of assembly of applications of the next generation allows to reduce development duration, creating high-quality, scalable, intellectual network applications using which the companies, in turn, will be able quicker to provide to customers the solutions creating additional value, increasing the market share in comparison with the new and existing competitors.

Matched data from people, systems, objects

ThingWorx is the platform allowing to store and approve data in three dimensions: data from people, systems and objects connected to network. This function allows to take from huge amount of data, arriving from these three sources, data, valuable in terms of business, doing them by the useful and having practical value resource. The platform supports requirements to scaling (to millions of devices) and provides connectivities, storages, the analysis, accomplishment and joint work, i.e. meets the key requirements imposed to applications in the modern network world. Besides, the module of data collection providing uniform semantic storage of the structured, social data and these time series is a part of the platform, working with speeds up to 10 times is higher in comparison with traditional relational databases.

Analytics on the basis of search

The ThingWorx SQUEAL platform (search, requests and the analysis) makes search function available in the world of intelligent network devices and the distributed data. Using functions of interactive search users will be able to compare data and to receive answers to the most important questions of business. Correctly picked up and up-to-date data about joint work, records of business systems and data on the equipment can be found for one transaction of search now thanks to what the problem resolution and implementation of innovations accelerates.

Joint work

The ThingWorx platform dynamically and virtually integrates people, systems and network equipment, and interactive sessions of joint work help certain specialists and the working groups to resolve problems quicker. The data warehouse of ThingWorx is the cornerstone of contextual interaction and joint work of users of a system, in addition increasing its value. Besides, the collective knowledge revealed during this process automatically is fixed and indexed for use when troubleshooting in the future.

Network capabilities

The "integrating" strategy of network connections of ThingWorx minimizes efforts on integration. The ThingWorx platform supports connection to devices by several methods, including third-party clouds of devices, direct network connections, open API interfaces and connections of AlwaysOn.

Characteristics of ThingWorx

The ThingWorx platform gives to the organizations a unique opportunity of fast assembly and start of the network applications for the purpose of implementation of commercial opportunities opened by promptly developing world of intellectual things.

The ThingWorx platform provides the full-fledged intellectual environment for application development which can be used as runtime environment, and for 2014 has the following characteristics:

• Modern and full-fledged platform.
• Development based on models provides faster deployment by 10 times.
• Consolidation of people, systems and machines.
• Deployment — as it is convenient to the customer.
• Development and growth of the application in the future.

2013: The creator of the ThingWorx platform is purchased by PTC

At the end of 2013 PTC purchased ThingWorx company which is a creator of the platform for development and use of software applications for Internet of Things. It provides development, connection and tracking of work of the products capable to interact through Network. "Thanks to this acquisition PTC locates now the innovation platform which will allow us to assist more effectively customers in generation of profit from those market opportunities which are opened before them by Internet of Things", - the president and the CEO of PTC Jim Heppelmann said then.