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stmarchessault5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
November 27, 2017

ThingWorx Manufacturing Apps 8.1 Freemium is Available for Download!

  • November 27, 2017
  • 14 replies
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Key Functional Highlights

Patching & Upgrades

  • Supports upgrading from 8.0.1 using the Manufacturing Apps Installer   
  • Streamlined patch support for customer issues
  • Updated the installer technology to align with ThingWorx platform

 

App Improvements

  • Fixed bugs with acknowledging alerts
  • Added support for collecting feature data from National Instruments InsightCM product

 

Controls Advisor

  • Added ability to retrieve KEPServerEX connection information in case the connection is lost or deleted
  • Minor UI improvements

 

Asset Advisor

  • Updated the UI for anomaly status

 

Production Advisor

  • Improved the status history widget to align with Asset Advisor
  • Added synchronized zooming to the chart widgets
   

Compatibility

  • ThingWorx 8.1.0
  • KEPServerEX 6.2, 6.3
  • KEPServerEX V6.1 and older as well as different OPC Servers (with Kepware OPC aggregator)
  • Support upgrade from 8.0.1
   

Documentation
   

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slangleyCommunity Manager
Community Manager
December 1, 2017

James, I will create a case for this and contact you to assist with your install.

--Sharon

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mthakker5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
December 1, 2017

Hey James,

This is a licensing problem.  A system that's out of license will attempt to start the ThingWorx server, which will then do a license check and shutdown if the license is out of date.  The install will fail as the platform wasn't up and running long enough to load the manufacturing app extensions.

Thanks,

Milan

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jamesso1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 1, 2017

So that means you actually CANNOT upgrade to the dev pack version once trying out the freemium version. This restriction needs to be documented more explicitly. So the only hope is to rebuild the machine from the OS on up? Will this even work?

FWIW, I attempted to reinstall the freemium version and this failed in the same way.

SO, how does ThingWorx know/keep track of licenses that have been used. There is a system hash/value that is recorded? Making an attempt on a new machine allows you to start over?

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jamesso1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 3, 2017

I did re-create my Server 2012 R2 from scratch and then the developerKit instance of the Manufacturing Apps did install. I suspect that some registry check is done to see if the machine has been tainted with a previous ThingWorx platform installation. I did notice some registry keys related to PTC that were empty after an un-install was completed. I checked with regedit after a successful install and there are some other keys and values related to PTC present.

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