The Custom Asset Viewer application is one of the sample applications that demonstrates how the Thingworx Manufacturing Apps suite can be extended to build custom apps.

In this example, we took the out-of-the-box asset performance mashup and modified it to add a grid table which shows the Maintenance Orders from an external database. We used Postgres as the database, because the Thingworx Manufacturing Apps installer supports it by default. The Maintenance Orders are stored in a table and a SQL query is used to extract the relevant data and display them in the context of an asset.

You can take this sample application and extend it to create Maintenance Orders when alerts are triggered in the system based on pre-determined criteria. In this example, you'll learn how to take advantage of existing mashups and repurpose them for similar use.