Steve Hechtman

Founder, President and CEO

Steve Hechtman is the president, CEO, and founder of Inductive Automation. Prior to starting the company in 2003, Steve had 25 years of experience as a control system integrator, including at Calmetrics Company, a prominent control systems integration company in Northern California, which he co-founded in 1988 and became president/CEO of in 2000. After enduring years of frustration with expensive and impractical industrial software, he decided to create a better solution. He formed Inductive Automation, which has achieved phenomenal growth by bringing up-to-date technologies to the controls business with web-based, database-centric products, and sensible licensing models.

Why We Aren't in the Application Business Steve Hechtman Tue, 09/26/2017 - 17:42

We recently interviewed a dozen or so HRM (Human Resources Management) software vendors because we’ve grown to that point. While we knew we could build it in Ignition, we figured we could come up faster and inherit expertise by buying a ready-built solution. However, we ended up rolling our own with Ignition. Why?