Learn how to create factory line solutions the can help take you to the next level
This project will introduce more complex aspects of the ThingWorx application and solution building.
Following the steps in this guide, you will develop your own IoT application or get a jump start in how to utilize ThingWorx for your needs.
We will teach you how to create a focused rules engine or service level logic to be used with the ThingWorx Platform.
You'll learn how to
- Create automated machine processes
- Use Services, Alerts, and Subscriptions to handle processes without human interaction
- Integrating complex logic with straight forward step by step systems
NOTE: This guide's content aligns with ThingWorx 9.3. The estimated time to complete ALL parts of this guide is 60 minutes
Step 1: Examples and Strategy
Download the attached FoodIndustry.zip and extract/import the contents. This is to be used as you work through this learning path. For the completed example, download, extract, and import FoodIndustryComplete.zip. These downloads provide three Users and a Security Group. Please watch your count for Users or the import could fail. If you're at your User count limit, delete Users before attempting to import these downloads. Unzip the download and import the Entities included.
In this tutorial we continue with our real-world scenario for the Fizos food company. We should already have our factory data in data tables and will expand on how we can make the factory line smarter. The best processed are built on great timing, quality materials, a great design, and a method to keep track of everything that is happening. We won't have control of materials here, but we can formulate a simple, but great design. Our design will be based on Alerts, Subscriptions, and Schedules.
One of the same questions we will need to ask ourselves that we did in the last guide pertaining to products, is whether to create an entity per machine used in the factory OR create data entries in a data table and process everything through services. Since we would like to have more detailed and up to date information about our machines, I will create a data model that is tied back to our factories.
We will need to start by creating our templates for overall machines, templates for specialized machines, and then entities for the particular machines we have in our factories.
Click here to view Part 2 of this guide.
