IoT Tips

Applicable Releases: ThingWorx Platform 7.0 to 8.5   Description:   Concepts and methodology to design a data model using an use case as example The following topics are covered: Real-world Product Example ThingWorx Terminology and concepts Formulate an implementation Strategy       Related Success Service

  Ever dreamed of participating in the design of the latest ThingWorx features? Now’s your chance! Join the UX Lab in usability and research sessions to help inform the design of your favorite ThingWorx features from the Edge to Kepware to remote monitoring to Solution Central and more!   For those of you newer to PTC, the UX Lab is an opportunity to see early views of product mockups, wireframes, etc. to provide your direct feedback; the UX Lab is part of LiveWorx, our definitive event for digital transformation, and this year both are virtual!   Click here to influence the design of Edge, Kepware, remote monitoring, Solution Central, and so much more!   Reach out with any questions!   Stay connected, Kaya

  Happy New Year, everyone! New year, same mission. As we continue to improve ThingWorx, we remain committed to taking into account what you, our users, are saying. What are you using ThingWorx for? What do you want it to do? What additional tools are you looking for?   To hear from you directly, our PM team has created a quick survey to understand your identity management and SaaS strategies a little better.   Complete the survey below for a chance to win a free Solution Central t-shirt! Loading…   Thanks in advance! At the end of the survey, all respondents will receive a link to check out the latest in our ThingWorx 8.5 release. One lucky winner will receive the Solution Central t-shirt.   Thanks for sharing your info! We’ll be sure to study it as we continue to develop our robust IoT solutions platform.   Stay connected in the New Year! Kaya

  Hello everyone!   We’re back with Episode 08 of ThingWorx on Air! In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Servais, one of our High Availability (HA) experts on the ThingWorx product management team. We continue our HA discussion from previous Ask Kaya tech tips and cover some frequently asked questions like what are the benefits of active-active clustering? How does active-active clustering enable horizontal scale? How can I get started? Brand-new to active-active clustering? Check out these tech tips to start: 9.0 Sneak Peek: Active-Active Clustering for ThingWorx 9.0 Sneak Peek: ThingWorx Architecture for Active-Active Clustering 9.0 Sneak Peek: Flexible Deployments of Active-Active Clustering for ThingWorx Click here to listen to how active-active clustering can help you in a variety of scenarios: If you have a request overflow in production and your servers are slowing down, try out active-active clustering! If your IT admin keeps delaying replacing the network card on your HPE rack server and you keep losing connections, check out the power of active-active clustering! If your team is challenged to provision 1000s of additional assets into your system and you’re worried one server can’t handle it, use active-active clustering for horizontal scale! Finally, if you haven’t already, check out Ryan’s LiveWorx session with Senior IoT Product Manager Ayush Tiwari where they break down availability into its core components and explain how you can leverage active-active clustering to achieve key benefits like reduced downtime, increased cost savings, and more.   Enjoy!   Stay connected, Kaya

  Hi everyone,   Today I’m here with a very exciting guest—Janie! Janie recently joined PTC after spending the last two years at a global professional services firm where she held many roles including that of a lead ThingWorx developer. While Janie did do some font-end development work and UI creation, the bulk of her time was spent on the backend writing services that enabled the application’s functionality. In this role, she not only wrote code herself, she also played a large part in the in-platform architectural decisions, determining the best way to utilize the platform in order to satisfy complex business requirements.   Throughout her last two years, she worked on various IIoT projects in the manufacturing industry developing a real-time asset health monitoring and OEE/production tracking application to monitor key metrics like downtime and output. For each customer engagement an assessment of IoT platforms was often undertaken in order to assess strengths and weaknesses based off-of the business requirements of the customer and while she spent time looking into a variety of platforms, ThingWorx always came out on top.   That said, her experience with ThingWorx showed her how much and how quickly that technology can can change the way a manufacturing company operates. She decided that instead of doing implementations of the technology, she wanted to have an impact on the technology itself and have a hand in the direction it goes and the way it continues to change the businesses we know today. This desire is what led her to product management and the role she currently holds at PTC today.   I recently sat down with Janie to hear how it has been moving from a developer on the platform to a PM for it to learn about her past ThingWorx experiences and how those will influence the work she does at PTC.     Here’s how our convo went.   Kaya: In your previous role as an IoT developer at another company, what made you choose ThingWorx over other IoT solution platforms? Janie: We chose ThingWorx over other IoT platforms due to its strong ability to connect such a wide variety of machines using ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity via Kepware, its industry-leading standing in the market and the fact that it did not require its users to have extensive development knowledge given its low-code environment, which enabled non-developers to be successful.   Kaya: Why do you think ThingWorx saved you time over other development platforms/products? Janie: There were three key ways the platform helped to save me time. First, I didn’t have to write code from scratch. For example, when needing to manipulate arrays or parse through uploaded csv files, there were pieces of code readily available for me to do so without having to know how to do it by myself. Second, due to the widgets ThingWorx already had available, I didn’t have to spend time making custom front-end UIs or widgets. And, thirdly, I saved a ton of time during the connectivity phase because connectivity to devices was supported OOTB through Kepware’s extensive suite of drivers available including some of the key ones we utilized such as Allen-Bradley Control Logix, Modbus, Siemens, and user configurable drivers.   Kaya: Along the lines of saving time, how would your experience with the platform have differed had you leveraged one of our manufacturing apps like Production KPIs? Janie: As I talked about previously, having access to a pre-built solution would have evidently saved a ton of development time and accelerated time to value. It also would have reduced the complexity of our completed app, which would have made it more scalable. While I understand the Manufacturing apps are not 100% ready-to-go out of the box but rather configurable stepping stones into a larger and mole holistic solution, if we could have had Production KPI’s as our development starting point, we would have had a more sound and already proven way of tackling Production and OEE tracking and could have added even more value on top of that.   Kaya: What were some of your favorite aspects about the platform? Janie: The code-snippets to get started were a big favorite, as were the OOTB widgets that allowed for quick visualization of important data. The OOTB industrial connectivity with seamless integration to ThingWorx was huge—we were able to connect multiple devices and stream information in real-time with little difficulty, which enabled us to derive even more value from the platform and really focus on becoming a fully smart and connected operation. Finally, the drag-and-drop UI was simple and intuitive.   Kaya: What do you think the top misconception is about IoT? Janie: I would say repeatability. Scaling an IoT solution across an enterprise is not as simple as it is often represented. I know we’re releasing a new functionality to help users more easily deploy their solutions, so I’m excited about that.   Kaya: So, now that you work as PM for the platform, what were a few things you wish you knew as a developer working on ThingWorx? Janie: Seeing everything we’re working on for the platform now is very exciting; I wish I could have been more aware of what’s on the roadmap so I knew what was coming as I was developing on the platform.   Kaya: On a similar note, now that you are working on the ThingWorx PM team, what items are you hoping to drive/change based on your experience? Janie: First, I’d like to drive stronger interaction with our system integrators (SIs) and partners by providing them insights into our roadmaps and allowing for them to provide feedback in a more seamless way. Next, I’d like to improve upon our essential platform developer capabilities, such as CI/CD, debugging, versioning, testing, etc. That said, Solution Central and PTC’s commitment to and integration with Microsoft products are very exciting roadmap features for me.   Kaya: I completely agree. Those are some great points. As I’m sure you’re aware, but our readers might not be aware of, we are working within the platform itself and a new feature, Solution Central, to provide more of that basic functionality so that, in addition to building blocks, low-code and a drag-and-drop UI, we can continue to help you accelerate your time to value.   Readers, I hope you enjoyed hearing from Janie! We’re excited to have her on the ThingWorx team and we look forward to making ThingWorx even stronger.   Let me know what you think in the comments below.   Stay connected, Kaya

  When it’s time to make pizza, most of us head to the fridge for our bag of dough; we don’t head for the flour and yeast to start from scratch. So, why would your ThingWorx apps be any different? Start with pre-built solutions like Asset Advisor to rapidly create health monitoring apps and dramatically reduce your development time.   We previously introduced Asset Advisor on Episode 04 of “ThingWorx on Air.” Today, we dive deeper into Asset Advisor with Greg Huet, Asset Advisor’s technical product manager (aka product owner). Listen to Ep. 06: Rapidly Build IIoT Apps for Service & Monitoring with Asset Advisor to hear Greg share our strategy of studying existing use cases and finding similarities that we can pre-build into solutions so that you don’t have to build them from scratch. Hear how you can use Asset Advisor out-of-the-box with tweaks for your company’s configurations or as an accelerated starting point where you can add as much customization as your use case desires—it’s like building a custom pizza, but starting with pre-made dough, rather than yeast and flour.   Greg also mentions the ThingWorx Application Development Guide. Be sure to check out my previous post, where Ward, one of the document creators, shares four of his top tips from the guide.   Now, sit back, relax and go enjoy some pizza while you listen to Episode 06.   As always, stay connected! Kaya

Applicable Releases: ThingWorx Platform 7.0 to 8.5   Description:   Main concepts and best practices for devops methodology such as Naming Conventions Setup and management of environments for development and testing Import/Export process and application deployment Use of Tags and Project to control your development Coding Standards Validation best practices         For project packaging and deployment, make sure to check the content about Solution Central created after this session was released

Hi all, Here is the recording of the expert session hosted in September 3rd. For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls Your feedback is very important to us! After watching the recording, please take 2 min to complete this survey  

  We are counting down the days for you—developers, technologists, futurists—to witness the unparalleled power of PTC’s technology. Hosted by PTC, LiveWorx is the world’s leading digital transformation event to equip you with the knowledge, power and tools you need to begin or accelerate your company’s digital transformation.   I’m excited to share that I will be presenting a breakout session on June 11 th , at 1:15pm EST, around a brand-new functionality we’re offering to improve your ability to manage and deploy your ThingWorx applications.   Want to learn more? Attend LiveWorx 2019 or learn about our livestream options. However you choose to attend, it’s an event that I’m pretty amped for and I can’t wait for you to be, too.   Hope to see you there—it’d be great to meet you in person!   Stay connected, Kaya  

Background Getting a performance benchmark of your running application is an important thing to do when deploying and scaling up an application in production.  This not only helps focus in on performance issues quickly, but also allows for safely planning for scaling up and resource sizing based on real concrete data.   I recently created a tool and made a post about capturing and analysing ThingWorx utilisation statistics to do such an analysis, as well as identifying potential performance bottlenecks. Although they are rich and precise, utilisation statistics fall short in a number of areas however - specifically being able to count and time specific service executions, as well as identifying and sorting based on the host executing the service.   Tomcat Access Log Analysis As ThingWorx is a Tomcat web application, Tomcat logs details of the requests being made to the application server and ThingWorx REST API.  The default settings include the host (IP address), date/timestamp, and request URI; which can be decoded to reveal relevant details like the calling entities and service executions.   Adding 3 key additional variables (%s %B %D) to the server.xml access log value also gives us the HTTP response code, service execution time, and bytes returned from Tomcat.  This is super useful as we can now determine exact time of service executions, and run statistics on their execution totals and execution time.     Once you have an access log file looking like the one above, you can attempt to load it into the access_log sheet in the analysis Excel workbook that I created.  You do this by click on the access_log table, then selecting "Data > Get Data > Data Source Settings".  You'll then be prompted with the following or similar pop-up allowing you to navigate to your access_log file to select and then load.     It should be noted that you'll have to Refresh the table after selecting the new access_log.txt file so that it is read in and populates the table.  You can do this by right-clicking on the table and saying Refresh, or using the Data > Refresh button.   This workbook relies on a number of formulas to slice and dice the timestamp, and during my attempts at importing I had significant issues with this due to some of the ways that Excel does things automatically without any manual options.  You really need to make sure that the timestamps are imported and converted correctly, or something in the workbook will likely not work as intended.  One thing that I had to do was to add 1 second to round up 00:00:00 for the first entries as this was being imported as a date without the time part, and then the next lines imported as a date/time.   Depending on how many lines your file is, you'll likely also have to "Fill Down" the formulas on the right side of the sheet which may be empty in the table after importing your new data set.  I had the best results by selecting the cells in question on the last row, then going down to the bottom corner, pushing and holding Shift, clicking on the last cell bottom right, and then selecting Home > Fill > Down to pull the formulas down from the top.   Once the data is loaded, you'll be able to start poking around.  The filters and sorting by the named columns is really helpful as you can start out by doing things like removing a particular host, sorting by longest execution times, selecting execution times greater than 4 seconds, or only showing activity aimed at a particular entity or service.     You really need to make sure that the imported data worked fine and looks perfect, as the next steps will totally break if not.  With the data loaded, you can now go to the Summary Data table and right-click on one of the tables and select Refresh.  This is reload the data in into the pivot table and re-run their calculations.   Once the refresh is complete, you should see the table summary like shown here; there are Day, Hour, and Minute expand/collapse buttons.  You should also see the Day, Hour, Month fields showing in the Field Definitions on the right.  This is the part that is painful -- if the dates are in the wrong format and Excel is unable to auto-detect everything in the same way, then you will not get these automatically created fields.     With the data reloaded, and Pivot Tables re-built, you should be able to go over to the Dashboard sheet to start looking at and analysing the graphs.  This one is showing the Top 10 services organised into hourly buckets with cumulated service execution times.     I'm not going to go into all of the workbooks features, but you can also individually select a set of key services that you want to have a look at together across both the execution count and execution time dimensions.     Next you can see the coordinated view of both total service execution time over number or service executions.  This is helpful for looking for patterns where a service may be executing longer but being triggered the same amount of times, compared to both being executed and taking more time.  I've created a YouTube video (see bottom) which goes through using all of the features as well as providing other pointers to using it.     Getting into a finer level of detail, this "bonus" sheet provides a Pivot Table and Pivot Chart which allows for exploring minimum, maximum and average execution time for a specific service.  Comparing this with the utilisation subsystem metrics taken during the same period now provide much deeper insight as we can pinpoint there the peaks were, how long they lasted, and where the slow executions were in relation to other services being executed at that time (example: identifying many queries/data processing occurring simultaneously).     Without further ado, you can download and play with my ThingWorx Tomcat Access Log Analysis Excel Workbook, and check out the recorded demonstration and explanation for more details on loading and analysis use. [YouTube] ThingWorx Tomcat Access Logs - Service Performance Analysis

Hi everyone,   We’re back! And we’ve got exciting news about Solution Central! As tempted as I am to share the news myself, I thought it only fitting to have Janie Pascoe, Product Manager of Solution Central, share the news with you. You may remember Janie from this post on ThingWorx's OPCUA functionality or this one on what it’s like to transition from a ThingWorx developer to a ThingWorx product manager. Janie, welcome back! The floor is yours.   Janie, PM of Solution Central: Thank you so much Kaija. I wanted to bring your readers up to speed on some of the latest and greatest in Solution Central. If you haven’t logged in to the Solution Central portal in a while, I highly recommend you do so because you will immediately be notified of what’s new in the application as you can see here due to our newly added what’s new popup blurb!     But in the spirit of giving you even more detail, let me tell you a bit more about what is new in Solution Central 3.0. This release is full of more intelligence than ever before! You can now not only deploy the solutions themselves from Solution Central but deploy all of a solution’s dependencies with the single click of a button. So, instead of having to deploy each dependency separately and in a specific order, Solution Central is now smart enough to understand the dependencies and deploy them for you. We have also added enhancements to our Solution Detail panel to make it even more intuitive and easy find what you’re looking for. And when it comes to clean up activities, we have you covered. Solution Central can now forget an instance when it’s no longer needed—no more questioning whether an instance is in active use or not.   Kaya: Thanks, Janie. Exciting stuff! Readers, you can learn all about these new features and more in our Release Notes and Help Center documentation. Be sure to try out the latest functionality!   Any questions, comments, or ideas for enhancements to Solution Central can be sent directly to jpascoe@ptc.com.   Stay on the lookout for our next release!   As always, stay connected, Kaya

Check our expert session recorded library! The recordings will also be published in our Customer events library, posted on each event. Stay tunned!   Your feedback is very important to us! After watching the recordings, please take 2 min to complete this survey   Thingworx Foundation Session Name Link Duration Thingworx Mashup 101 - Do's and Don'ts Recording link 00:33:41 Thingworx Active Active Clustering (High Availability Recording link 00:26:24 Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts Recording link 00:27:02 Thingworx Flow Overview Recording link 00:43:40 Top 5 items to check for Thingworx Performance Troubleshooting Recording link 00:26:55 ThingWorx DEVOPS QuickStart Guide Recording link 00:45:05 ThingWorx Backup And Recovery Recording Link 00:20:14 Expert Session - Designing your Data Model in Thingworx Recording link 00:26:45 ThingWorx Installation Recording link 00:15:07 Expert Session - Introduction To Edge Connectivity Recording link 00:15:56 Expert Session - Basic Mashup Design in Thingworx Recording link 00:36:31 Expert Session - Extensions101 Recording Link 00:30:08 Expert Session – Developing your Data Model in Thingworx Recording link 00:39:19 Thingworx Scalability Recording link 00:09:18 Expert Sessions - ThingWorx Patch Upgrade Recording link 00:03:19   Thingworx Navigate Session Name Link Duration Understanding license requirements for Thingworx Navigate Recording link 00:32:40 Navigate SSL and Authentication Recording Link 00:34:30 Navigate 3D Viewer Recording Link 00:43:25 Component Based App Development Recording Link 00:24:07 Navigate 9.0 – What’s new Recording link 00:27:07 Overview of SSO Implementation for ThingWorx Navigate and Windchill with PingFederate Recording link 00:18:36 Identifying the right SSO mix for Navigate 1 6 Recording link 00:57:56 Navigate Configuration - PingFederate Automation Script Recording link 00:51:07 Expert Session - Navigate Configuration/Windchill Authentication Recording link 00:23:07 What’s new with Navigate 1.8 and the new Navigate 1.8 installer Recording link 01:05:26 Creating an I*E task for use in Navigate Recording link 00:05:36   Vuforia Expert Capture Session Name Link Duration VEC In a Nutshell Video Link 00:31:39

Hiya,   I recently prepared a short demo which shows how to onboard and use Azure IoT devices in ThingWorx and added some usability tips and tricks to help others who might struggle with some of the things that I did.     The good news... I recorded and posted it to YouTube here.   •Connect Azure IoT Hub with ThingWorx (to be updated soon for 9.0 release) •Using the Azure IoT Dev Kit with ThingWorx •Getting the Azure IoT Hub Connector Up and Running (V3/8.5)   Enjoy, and don't hesitate to comment with your own tips and feedback.   Cheers,   Greg

Now that ThingWorx 9.3 is live, let’s take a closer look at some of our new features we released for Composer and Mashup Builder.   Referenced By Find where entities, code references, and project dependencies are used in your existing projects using the new “Referenced by” report feature. This feature is not automatically enabled because it is intended to be used during development, since it can call upon all of the entities in your project and can impact your load times in production. That being said, this is your friendly reminder to turn off this feature during production.     How to enable: Go to the relationship subsystem and tick the check box to enable during development.   How it works: The “Referenced By” feature finds any entity that is referenced in your ThingWorx environment based on the supplied search characteristics. You can run this “Referenced By” report in the Composer or via a ThingWorx service “GetWhereUsed”.  When you use the “Referenced By” feature on an entity, you can find all of the references in the system for that entity in Mashup bindings, service script references, thing property bindings, and more.     Grid Widget The new grid widget component, which was available for preview in ThingWorx 9.2, is now complete, so it’s time to get your grid on! We have improved styling and performance capabilities with this new widget, including greater support for inline editing, autocreation of columns based on infotables, and adding new footer areas. You can also configure the grid using the property editor in Mashup Builder, where previously we had plain text entry.   Style Migration The new Style Migration is a game changer. It allows you to retain the same look and feel of your Mashups as you upgrade from previous versions of ThingWorx to the newest web components and features available in 9.3. Improved from our previous migrator, this allows you to move to the latest platform version and capabilities without having to re-implement or redesign your applications and widgets.     How it works: When you upgrade to the latest version of ThingWorx, you will see a pop-up window appear if you have any legacy widgets or layouts in your Mashup. The window will have the option for you to apply one of three style themes to your Mashup: PTC Convergence Theme (the new ThingWorx Default theme), Legacy Styles Theme (the old ThingWorx theme, from version 8.0 and earlier), or Custom Theme (choose from custom themes you defined using the Theme Editor and Style Theme that will appear when custom theme is selected in the pop-up). Depending on how you already styled or would like to style your Mashups, select an option and click migrate. This migrator maintains previous coloring, spacing, and other design properties better than previous migrators. You, of course, have the option to not upgrade your Mashup, but we recommend that you migrate, especially where we have new widgets available to replace legacy versions. If there are any issues with your migration, you can always click “Undo” in the toolbar.   Things to Consider: This migration will work best with ThingWorx default styling, out of the box styling, and Mashups with widgets that we now have replacements for (these are marked legacy in the builder). Always make sure you review your Mashups to make sure bindings and properties remained. Note that custom CSS will not be migrated, and custom widgets developed outside the standard platform installation will remain the same on the new Mashup.   Other Bonus Features That’s not all we rolled out in ThingWorx 9.3. You will also see Composer enhancements for test execution on ThingTemplates and dynamic use of Master Mashups to allow for swapping out Masters at run time based on predefined conditions based on your users. Plus, we now have truncation support for the breadcrumb component and tabs component, which utilizes an ellipsis pattern for long  text for a more user-friendly application.  With enhancements to our charts, you can now show/hide legends and format axis in new ways. We also support localization for our new web component widgets, .   How has your experience been building solutions with the latest updates to Composer and Mashup Builder? How can we continue to build upon these enhancements? Let us know what you think.   Stay connected, Rachel

We will host a live Expert Session: "Thingworx Mashup 101 - Do's and Don'ts" on February 24th, 13h30 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thingworx Mashup 101 - Do's and Don'ts Date and Time: February 24th, 13h30 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Aanjan Ravi - Technical Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/events/thingworx-mashup-101   Description: This session covers the most common and useful tips about how to correctly use Mashup builder, Widgets and Layouts – and what to avoid -  to create applications with good principles of UI/UX and easier to maintain.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’ in PTC support portal search Thingworx Active Active Clustering This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release.   Recoding Link Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts This session highlights the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9. Recording Link Top 5 items to check for Thingworx Performance Troubleshooting How to troubleshoot performance issues in a Thingworx Environment? Here we cover the top 5 investigation steps that will help you understand the source of your environment issues and allow better communication with PTC Technical Support     Recording Link

Hi all,   Here is the recording of the expert session hosted in August 25th. For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

We will host a live Expert Session: "Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts" on January 12th 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link: Expert Session: Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts Date and Time: January 12th 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Ayush Tiwari - IoT Product Manager Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded sessions that might be of your interest. You can find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’ in PTC support portal search.   Thingworx Flow Overview Flow is a powerful component of the ThingWorx platform.  This session will take the Flow discussion beyond basic applications and into more customized and complex solutions.​ This will focus on use cases, main features such as triggers, connector options, main enhancements for Thingworx 9.0 and a short demonstration   Recoding Link Top 5 items to check for Thingworx Performance Troubleshooting How to troubleshoot performance issues in a Thingworx Environment? Here we cover the top 5 investigation steps that will help you understand the source of your environment issues and allow better communication with PTC Technical Support     Recording Link

We will host a live Expert Session: "Thingworx Flow Overview" on December 10th, 8h00 EST.   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Thingworx Flow Overview Date and Time: December 10th, 8h00 EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Antony Moffa; Vinay Vaidya - Thingworx IoT Platfom Senior Directors Registration Here: https://www.ptc.com/en/customer-success/expert-sessions-for-thingworx-foundation-webcasts    Description: Overview of Thingworx Flow, an application for integration and orchestration between systems. This will focus on use cases, main features such as triggers, connector options, main enhancements for Thingworx 9.0 and a short demonstration.   Existing Recorded sessions can be found on support portal using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’. You can also suggest topics for upcoming sessions using this small form.   Here are some recorded  and upcoming sessions that might be of your interest. You can also find recordings for the full library of webinars using the keyword ‘Expert Sessions’ in PTC support portal search Top 5 items to check for Thingworx Performance Troubleshooting How to troubleshoot performance issues in a Thingworx Environment? Here we cover the top 5 investigation steps that will help you understand the source of your environment issues and allow better communication with PTC Technical Support   Recording Link Upgrade to Thingworx 9 – How to Plan / Evaluate Impacts This session will highlight the key points you should evaluate to properly plan your upgrade to Thingworx 9 Register Here Active Active Clustering This session will cover the main aspects of the High Availability Clustering feature launched with the ThingWorx 9.0 release Register Here

Applicable Releases: ThingWorx Platform 8.3 to 8.5   Description:   Installation walkthrough of ThingWorx foundation using PostgreSQL, materializing some main steps that might be difficult to read in the installation guides       Reference installation guides for each version

Applicable Releases: ThingWorx Navigate 1.8.0 to 1.9.0     Description:   New improvements of the ThingWorx Navigate Installer with the following agenda: What's new Load Balancer Multiple Windchill Systems Integration Runtime NSSM How to select files to download Installer installation steps Demo Questions         Additional information How to install PTC Navigate

Applicable Releases: ThingWorx Platform 7.0 to 8.5   Description:   Introduction to Edge connectivity in Thingworx Foundation: Edge concept and definition Available edge products Why use Edge products What is Edge Microserver and Lua Script Resource What are the SDKs What are connection servers AlwaysOn and HTTP protocols ThingTemplates to connect remote devices     The session was recorded in an old ThingWorx version, but all the concepts are still applicable