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What is Tulip?

Tulip, the leader in frontline operations, is helping companies of all sizes and across industries, including complex manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices equip their workforce with connected apps– leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, and Hungary. The platform’s main features are: - Intuitive drag-and-drop app editor lets you create user-friendly apps — no coding required - Boost operator productivity with human-centric apps that incorporate computer vision, connected devices, and connections to 3rd-party systems - Native edge connectivity lets you connect your machines, sensors, cameras, and smart tools to the apps you build - Gain visibility with real-time analytics and dashboards - Integrate with the systems, databases, and software you already use - Manage permissions, ensure data policy compliance, and maintain data integrity - The Tulip Library with easy to download 100+ templates and examples and configure them to your needs

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Product Description

Tulip, a leader in frontline operations, is helping companies of all sizes and across industries, including complex manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, equip their workforce with connected apps—leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Tulip’s Frontline Operations Platform offers a unique set of advantages:

No-Code and Democratization:
-Tulip balances centralized control with democratization, allowing those close to operations to create and edit solutions.
-Democratization is facilitated through no-code app editing, Tulip Workspaces, and integration of advanced technologies like edge connectivity and machine learning.

Agility:
-Engineers using Tulip can rapidly build, test, and iterate within the platform's governed environment.
-It supports a gradual growth approach, enabling real-time updates by in-house teams.

Human Centric:
-Tulip prioritizes use cases that streamline human activity, enhancing productivity and minimizing clicks.

Openness:
-Tulip supports integration with other systems using a no-code approach and an open API.
-It provides tools and hardware for easy connection to machines, legacy devices, and systems.

Innovation:
-Tulip embeds intelligent hardware sensors, computer vision, and machine learning into their solutions.
-Its low-code capabilities enable experienced developers to add functionality and connect to other systems or tools.


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Year Founded
2012
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Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Description

Tulip, a leader in frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with AI-enabled, connected apps — leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulip's composable platform enables those closest to operations can take advantage of composability and edge connectivity to digitally transform processes, guide operators, track production, and gain a real-time, holistic view of operations.Companies of all sizes and across industries — including complex manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices — have implemented composable solutions with Tulip’s platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: error-proofing processes and boosting productivity with guided workflows, capturing and analyzing real-time data, and continuously improving operations.A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary.Interested in helping Tulip transform the manufacturing software landscape? We’re hiring! Browse our open roles and apply today: https://tulip.co/careers/.


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5.0 out of 5
"Tulip has expedited our development process bringing value in a short term"
The ease of use when developing applications
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Kosi A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"MES that is robust and easily customizable to a wide range of applications"
Ease of customizability. Can easily integrate with other tools through api's. Great customer support
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What do you like best about Tulip?

What I like most about the platform is the speed to which it can solve a problem. Often times someone may want a simple and quick solution to an on going head ache. An exmaple of that would be a way to collect 5S or machine inspection reports without drop box or walking the floor everyday. In less than a few hours, I can build the app, deploy it, and train users on it. This saves so much time not only for the problem at hand but even the time required for a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

There's not a whole lot to dislike. A nice addition would be step by step youtube learning tutorials but a lot of information is already in their community, university courses, and knowledge hub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

It collects and organizes manufacturing KPI's for me that would otherwise need manual collection and manipulation. It gives me and my team everything we need to make quick and informed decisions to run a factory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

One of the best features is the ability to use the latest technology to rapidly solve challenges that are unique to our operations. Rapid development/deployment of solutions takes hours or days, everything is scalable. With Tulip we can implement the latest manufacturing methods in a small or large footprint without committing to large software packages where the investment dictates the direction. If we try something and it doesn't work, we move on to the next thing. We don't force a subpar solution because we "bought" a feature.

The results and practical application of solutions drive the development. Some solutions are long term while others are for the moment. Development of apps around your current workforce is possible, you can design the interface to match the comfort level of the users. Implementation that is customized to the user results in a much higher usage rate.

There is a vast and active community that develops solutions and features ahead of official releases. Often you can find a solution for a near identical problem that someone else has already solved. Customer service and technical help is fast and responsive. API integrations are available for many other software’s which allows you to use Tulip as a UI for all of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

Cloud based service can make it difficult to determine the source of a connection or latency problem. Is it our internal network, the internet provider or a offsite server? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

We moved from paper-based build sheets to fully digital. Information on changes is near instantaneous to the factory floor. Quality inspection and audits have also moved to a pure digital format. Metrics and trends are now automatically collected without transcribing hundreds of records. The digital inspection/audits also allow for pics and video of defects. The visual based record improves communication to the team by several orders of magnitude. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

Tulip allows you to leverage powerful applications to improve your processes. It allows you to build eDHRs, electronic work instructions, and much more to augment your processes, replace or eliminate mundane operations, automate, and connect numerous company softwares like SAP right into your applications. It eliminates tons of waste, and for us in building interactive work instructions saves, time, money, and improves quality.

For Management it allows you to easily build a visual system on your floor and gives you easy to configure dashboards that capture your information in real time allowing you to pivot quickly to changes and challenges.

We currently are in our POC phase where work and building in these awesome features has made this software so easy to impliment on our product line. We currently use it on approximately 20 work stations with interactive IO and smart tools and setup was incredibly easy.

Customer support is incredibly quick and always willing to help you solve your problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

We have had some issues with content during revisions of applications where movies or pictures do not display in the applications, which is usually solved with a quick system refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have significant scrap and quality issues that are propegated when we dont catch it quickly. Tulip helps prevent those occurances and helps us catch it quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose R. D.
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What do you like best about Tulip?

Tulip is an intuitive, end-user-oriented, easy to use "platform to build applications", that allows quick delivery of apps in a controlled and complaint way. I like the range of use cases you can address with it, from simple analytic views to suites of apps to manage complex workflows. If there is a "green field" or "brown field" landscape in an organization, Tulip is a great enabler for a "get-rid-of-paper" Digitalization Program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

The more you like the platform, the more you want to do with it and the expectations grow continiuosly. After our first global deployments, we have reached the point where we need more controls and features around full EBR-like use cases for lifescience. Tulip is working on these enhancements in their product roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Tulip we are doing from simple electronic logbooks to lightweight electronic batch record execution, all in a global scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

Ease of customizability. Can easily integrate with other tools through api's. Great customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

Lack of built in batch record tool. Some limted functionaility with table relationships Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

MES and work instructions for various processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

Tulip is a powerful, user-friendly platform in the manufacturing industry. Creating and implementing apps is as simple as can be without sacrificing advanced features. Being a logic-based programming language, the apps you create feel limitless; there is usually always a solution to every roadblock when defining what you want Tulip to do. Downloading the app for integration on stations in the work floor is quick and easy, developers can administrate stations and apps all from the same platform. The customer support from Tulip is friendly, knowledgable, and prompt. If I ever had an issue or was stuck on finding a way to program something the Tulip customer support would always get back to me with solutions to my issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

It's hard to say what is least helpful about Tulip since any issues, missing features, or bugs in the app are promptly adressed by Tulip customer support. It is an evolving platform that implements new features throughout the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tulip has helped me solve problems with data storage and analysis from manufacturing production lines. Before our team started using Tulip there was no way to show operators how they were doing throughout the day. Our team would rely on team leads reporting issues or having to explain these issues after they happened. With Tulip it became possible to see production numbers in real time and adress issues pertaining to productivity swiftly and promptly. I am also currrently leveraging Tulip to create an inventory tracking system to connect 4 departments that have been affected by unexpected shortages in inventory due to a lack of consistent communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

It's low code architecture. 80% of shopfloor's digital needs were covered. Free to add as many tables & store unlimited data that too in cloud. Automations opened up lot more possibilities with the tool. Promoting citizen app development culture impacting on building a digital mindset culture in Manufacturing facilities. Agile & DevOps inbuilt within the platform for swifter solution deployments. Customer support is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

Machine monitoring controls lack logical functionalities & as it's a complete cloud solution, data loss due to connectivity issues was not addressed within the platform. It would be nice to have a bi-directional connection & advanced Machine logic tables to meet certain MES expectations. Analytics were limited to a specific table/app & doesn't support joins or lookups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developing & deploying shopfloor applications to digitize old-school paper-based manufacturing processes into sophisticated digital systems. It's one of the best competitive alternatives to legacy MES. Generally, shopfloor digital solutions have a lower success rate on the first go & need continuous improvement to adapt the process. While the app development is faster with the low code logic, Tulip inbuilt DevOps architecture within the platform made the CI/CD faster. We were able to monitor our machines & have apps built to help the process, inherently collecting all shopfloor data which was a grey area in manufacturing for a long time. It promoted citizen development culture which made me easy to hand over solutions to the customers for future management & improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

The flexibility of Tulip has enabled our manufacturing facilities to remain innovative with customizeable solutions that meet their varying process types, but also allows for our central team to ensure standards around data schemas, scope, and topic of applications. It is an easy platform for people to learn, and allows for very rapid digitization of manual or paper- based processes on our plant floors. We have many facilities who have fully digitized their shops with Tulip and use it all day every day! Additionally, the support team of Tulip is exceptional - incredibly responsive, diligent with your issue, and willing to go the extra mile to find a resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

We find the need to create a lot of custom widgets still as the platform features are growing. Some hurdles around stations and application assignment, a bit clunky for people not used to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

When boiled down, the main business problem that we are solving with Tulip is around data collection on our shop floors, and getting that data in an efficient, understandable way to our shop floor leaders to drive their actions with data. This elimates the manual work that these leaders needed to do historically, and increases the accuracy of the data as well. This in turn equips our leaders to make better descisions, faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

The ease of use when developing applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

The analytics charts are too basic and not capable to drill down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Is solving the need of having multiple developers, since this tool can be used by anyone. And has empowered manufacturing with serverless solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tulip?

I like the Tulip is a flexible system. I like the ability to develop quick app development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tulip?

It still has limited features. But system is expanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to develop and deploy application on the shop floor in short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.