Mendix Workstation Glossary

Introduction

Refer to this glossary for an explanation of commonly used terms related to Mendix Workstation.

Concepts

Mendix Workstation

A set of tools and components within Mendix for creating intelligent, efficient, and user-friendly applications for shop floor operators, enabling Mendix cloud applications to interact directly with peripheral devices on a local workstation.

Workstation Management

A Mendix Platform application that offers a centralized interface for configuring, monitoring, and maintaining the lifecycle of workstation clients. It's used by central IT and application support teams to configure clients, register computers, configure and assign devices, and group them into workspaces.

Workstation Connector

A component downloaded from the Mendix Marketplace within Mendix Studio Pro to enable app integration and allow a Mendix application to send and receive data or commands to and from devices.

Client

The Mendix Workstation Client acts as a bridge between the Mendix app and local hardware. The goal of the Workstation Client is to establish a secure and reliable connection between the Mendix Application Client and the hardware, peripherals, or local data sources attached to that workstation.

Device

A device represents a physical device on the shop floor. This can include printers, barcode scanners, smart card readers, industrial scales, and others.

Registration Token

A registration token is used to register a computer in Workstation Management.

Station

A station represents a computer on the shop floor. It can connect to one or more apps or devices.

Workspace

A workspace is a grouping of one or more stations. For example, a workspace may group together all the stations which belong to the same factory or factory line.