Manufacturing

This page is for sharing example lab excersizes and lesson plans for teaching students how to connect, monitor, control, analyze, and optimize machines and processes in smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0 applications. Click here to see a library of supporting documents used to teach a Smart Manufacturing course at Brigham Young University.

Labs and Exercises

Below you will find activities that have been developed to introduce students to the full process of connecting machines to the cloud and automating their processes with machine learning.

Topic	Preview
Using ThingWorx Analytics to train and deploy a machine learning model using live data from a Unversal Robot arm. Click here to learn more.
The Candy Sorting Machine activity is designed to introduce students to a full process of cofiguring a design, building a cloud connected machine, then training and deploying a machine learning model. Click here to learn more.

Industrial Connectivity

Example guides on how to connect edge devices with Kepware or ThingWorx Edge Micro Server for monitor and control.

Topic	Preview
This tutorial shows how to set up a ThingWorx Edge MicroServer on a Raspberry Pi running Octoprint for remote monitor and control of a 3D printer. Click here to learn more.
This guide shows you how to connect an Allen Bradley PLC to the Vuforia Spatial Toolbox through Kepware. Click here to learn more.

IoT and AR Integration

ThingWorx is an industry leading Internet of Things (IoT) and Industial IoT (IIoT) platform for connecting edge devices to the cloud and orchestrating data flows for any number of industrial applications. Vuforia Experience Service is a platform that sits on top of a ThingWorx instance and allows experiences created with Vuforia Studio to access live data from ThingWorx and be published for anyone with the Vuforia View app to see.

Topic	Preview
Hello ThingWorx!	A simple Hello World ThingWorx example that shows how to connect to remote data with REST API to make a simple IoT temperature dashboard. ThingWorx and Vuforia Studio both require knowledge of JavaScript -- Learn JS at W3Schools.com
Vuforia Studio and ThingWorx
Universal Robot Augmented Reality Digital Twin, built with Vuforia Studio and ThingWorx, using federated local and cloud-based instances enabling both high-performance and remote data access. More details on Federating instances in this PDF.