Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso vs Neuron
Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso and Neuron are both manufacturing (mrp/mes) software. Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso is a commercial product from Dassault Systèmes. Neuron is open source under LGPL-3.0, with 1.4k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso when
- A multinational manufacturer wants a standard MES rolled out across many plants, often alongside 3DEXPERIENCE.
- Pick Neuron when
- You need a lightweight edge gateway to move PLC data into MQTT or EMQX.
Side by side
Manufacturing operations software covering MES, quality, warehouse and maintenance across global plants, from Dassault Systèmes.
An industrial connectivity server that reads dozens of protocols such as Modbus, OPC UA and Siemens S7 at the edge and publishes the data over MQTT.
Enterprise cost and long rollouts.
Many protocol drivers are only in EMQ's commercial edition; the open version covers a subset.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
C and MQTT
Closed source, sold by Dassault Systèmes
Open source, LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
No Wikipedia article of its own
1.4k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 2.15.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.