Honeywell Forge vs OpSee

Honeywell Forge is a portfolio of applications and services for operating complex industrial environments and regulated industries. It links installed assets, brings their data together, and provides enterprise-level insights in real time. Its tools combine deterministic models with operational constraints to support automated processes and operational decisions. Product areas include industrial operations, connected buildings, life sciences, supply chain, and OT cybersecurity. Advanced Process Control coordinates planning, control, and blending in real time, with cloud-based or on-premise analytics. Inspection Rounds lets teams configure and schedule operator rounds, monitor them, review issues, and prepare compliance reports; field data can be captured offline and synchronized after connectivity returns. The Forge API Marketplace offers bidirectional access to building data, with APIs available as add-ons to existing Forge applications. Listed platforms are Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. Pricing is on request; product offerings may have term-based licensing and feature choices.

OpSee is an open, modular manufacturing execution and industrial data platform for factories, covering MES, OEE, historian, analytics and AI. Its data logging module connects to MQTT brokers, OPC-UA endpoints and industrial protocols, and is described as always free. The historian stores and retrieves time-series process data. Analytics includes trend charts, Pareto analysis, custom KPIs, interpolation, annotations and multi-axis support; OEE tools provide real-time gauges, production trends, downtime categories and loss analysis. MES covers production orders, operator screens, quality checks, traceability and material tracking. AI features include anomaly detection, predictive insights, root-cause assistance and plain-language questions about historical data. OpSee can run at the edge, on premises or in the cloud, with managed hosting options named for AWS, Azure and GCP. Edge deployment supports Docker Compose and lists a requirement of less than 8 GB RAM. Starter costs €59 a month per equipment and Pro costs €95 a month per equipment.