Epicor Kinetic vs StreamPipes
Epicor Kinetic and StreamPipes are both manufacturing (mrp/mes) software. Epicor Kinetic is a commercial product from Epicor Software Corporation. StreamPipes is open source under Apache-2.0, with 752 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Epicor Kinetic when
- A midsize make-to-order or mixed-mode manufacturer needs shop-floor and job costing depth beyond a general ERP.
- Pick StreamPipes when
- A manufacturing team wants non-programmers to wire up machine data pipelines and dashboards on their own infrastructure.
Side by side
ERP for discrete manufacturers covering production planning, scheduling, job costing, inventory, quality and finance.
An Apache industrial IoT toolbox for connecting sources like OPC UA and S7, building streaming pipelines in a graphical editor and exploring time-series data on dashboards.
Implementations are configuration-heavy and upgrades between major versions take real effort.
Runs as several services on Docker or Kubernetes and needs care to operate; still below 1.0.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Self-hosted server
.NET and Microsoft SQL Server
Java, TypeScript and Angular
Closed source, sold by Epicor Software Corporation
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
752 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release release/0.98.0.
Other comparisons
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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.