Siemens Opcenter vs StreamPipes
Siemens Opcenter and StreamPipes are both manufacturing (mrp/mes) software. Siemens Opcenter is a commercial product from Siemens. StreamPipes is open source under Apache-2.0, with 752 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Siemens Opcenter when
- A large manufacturer with complex plant operations wants MES tied to Siemens PLM and automation.
- Pick StreamPipes when
- A manufacturing team wants non-programmers to wire up machine data pipelines and dashboards on their own infrastructure.
Side by side
Siemens' manufacturing operations management portfolio: MES, advanced planning and scheduling, quality and lab management.
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.
It is a portfolio of products needing specialist integrators and substantial investment.
Runs as several services on Docker or Kubernetes and needs care to operate; still below 1.0.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
Java, TypeScript and Angular
Closed source, sold by Siemens
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.