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icc | 2020 International Session  |  Agriculture

Improving Automation Systems with MQTT (Spanish)

Leveraging the fundamentals of MQTT as an application will bring your existing automation systems up-to-date and even future-proof them. Learn how to get your company and colleagues on board with using the MQTT protocol with persuasive strategies backed up by great information. You’ll learn the importance of embedded security, how to deploy cross-interactions between plant-floor enterprise applications, and more.

28 min video

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icc | 2019 Community Session  |  Agriculture

Certified for Success—Building a Better Integration Business

Over its 25 years, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) has helped system integrators build better businesses one company at a time. In this session, you'll learn about the help CSIA offers integration companies and you'll hear first-hand from CSIA-certified system integrator Grantek about their successful partnership with CSIA. Grantek is a leading CSIA Certified member who joined CSIA in 2008. Come in and learn of the specific benefits Grantek has derived from this relationship and get ideas to help grow the success of your integration business in this informative, open discussion.

57 min video

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icc | 2019 Panel  |  Agriculture

Integrator Panel: The Biggest Trends Shaping the Industry

At this panel discussion, you'll connect with leaders of some of the Ignition community's most innovative integration companies to discuss real trends shaping the industry. With so many buzzwords like Big Data, the cloud, and IIoT circulating, how do you sort out which trends actually matter? How are automation professionals responding to these big ideas? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what's actually impacting the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.

62 min video

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case study Agriculture

Ignition Meets FSMA Requirements for Better Food Safety

SmartWash Solutions is based in Salinas, California, near Silicon Valley and the California Central Valley — one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. It’s the perfect location for a food-safety technology company. SmartWash cares a great deal about food safety. That’s why it’s enabling data collection and analysis for its customers, and also helping those customers meet requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) created FSMA to strengthen prevention of foodborne illness.

5 min video

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icc | 2018 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: How to Lead With Ignition

At this panel discussion, you’ll hear some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators talk about how they are finding success for their companies and customers by leading with Ignition. In this session, our expert panel of integrators will discuss tips for how to win more projects with Ignition, keep up with technology trends, and open new opportunities for future development.

61 min video

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case study Agriculture

Improving Product Quality and Quantity

6 min video

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customer project Agriculture

Animal Nutrition Producer Sees Benefits Throughout Facility

The project uses Ignition Vision Modules to develop a custom Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution. Ignition delivers information that enables the optimization of production activities from order launch to finished goods. Using current and accurate data, the system initiates, responds to, and reports on plant operations as they occur.

7 min video

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case study Agriculture

Early Success with Ignition Leads to Expanded Role

When CFF wanted a comprehensive software package that could run processes across several departments while collecting and analyzing data, it turned to Ignition by Inductive Automation®. Ignition is an industrial application platform with numerous tools for building solutions in human-machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

4 min video

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case study Agriculture

Two Plants, One Solution

Adams Group, the largest supplier of organic expeller-pressed vegetable oils in the US, uses Ignition in its SCADA & MES solution. Read more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

5 min read

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case study Agriculture

Largest Cherry Production Line in the World Thrives on Ignition

Ignition enables Prima Frutta to share data about the line with workers throughout the plant. Every day, 10 managers and 900 other employees get data from more than 120 video screens around the facility. The screens are three different sizes: 27 inches, 32 inches, and 60 inches. Every year, Prima Frutta adds more monitors.

4 min video

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