Inductive Automation Blog

Connecting you to ideas, tips, updates and thought-leadership
from Inductive Automation

customer project Oil and Gas

Reliable Data Supports Cleaner Energy Initiative For 50 Sites

One of South Jersey Industries’ (SJI) key initiatives is to deliver on its commitment to provide cleaner energy. The generation of renewable natural gas facilities at dairy farms is a key production commitment for SJI. A modular production facility is required at each farm site, near the raw materials. The speed of deployment and number of sites involved demands the establishment of a universal architecture and platform for the integration of control and enterprise systems at the company. In addition, the distributed nature of the system and criticality to the energy infrastructure demand the highest level of security and reliability. Finally, SJI requires that all these sites be centrally monitored from an enterprise SCADA system that will also historize data for financial and regulatory reporting. The central importance of reliable data for continual operational financial justification proves the common Digital Transformation adage that “data is the new gas.” SJI Industries tasked InflexionPoint to build a foundation for the application of key control and information technologies and systems that will allow the organization to realize world-class Digital Transformation and create a secure data pipeline. In doing so, SJI would be able to provide users at all levels of the organization with access to control system information. Through the strategic application of industrial information technologies, significant benefits are realized in the following areas: reliability, availability, visibility, and security. InflexionPoint successfully built and deployed this operational technology stack on Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform, which let ACC establish a scalable architecture to support plants/sites of varying sizes and complexity. The integration of data from the site’s control level, through various secure (DMZ) network layers to the corporate core network and cloud providers, has been addressed.

10 min video

Watch the customer project
Ignition Cloud Edition Frontend Auto Scaling on AWS Chris Fischer Fri, 07/21/2023 - 16:07

In this session, we will walk you through how to configure Ignition Cloud Edition and AWS to set up auto-scaling for the Perspective frontend. As always, please bring your questions for an open Q&A at the end as well.

Hero
Headshot of Travis Cox with icon of a teacup
Integrator Program Level
Gold Certified
Premier
Enterprise
Distributor
Registered
Credentialed
Certified
Thumbnail
Headshot of Travis Cox with icon of a teacup
Wistia ID
7heporxk96
Topic
Architecture
Enterprise
Featured at Location
Integrator Homepage
Learning Series
Coffee and Tea
Server Sizing, Historian Sizing, and 62443 Security Chris Fischer Thu, 06/22/2023 - 14:27

We'll spend some time doing a deep dive on the Server Sizing & Architecture guide, the Ignition Historian guide, and share what our new security pages and 62443 certification means to you and your customers. As always, please bring your questions for an open Q&A at the end as well.

Hero
Headshot of Kevin McClusky with icon of coffee cup
Integrator Program Level
Gold Certified
Premier
Enterprise
Distributor
Registered
Credentialed
Certified
Thumbnail
Headshot of Kevin McClusky with icon of coffee cup
Wistia ID
9exmisrnmp
Topic
Architecture
Databases
Enterprise
Security
Featured at Location
Integrator Homepage
Learning Series
Coffee and Tea
webinar

Ignition Community Live: Ignition Cloud Edition

Hotly anticipated since it was first teased at ICC 2022, Ignition Cloud Edition combines the power of Ignition with the convenience of the cloud. Join some of our Ignition experts as they answer questions from the Ignition community, and explain the best uses for Cloud Edition as well as how it compares to the standard Ignition platform.

66 min video

Watch the ignition community live
Ignition AWS Partner Solutions Overview Chris Fischer Thu, 03/16/2023 - 13:37

In this session, we will walk through the new Ignition AWS Partner Solution that provides cloud formation templates to spin up Ignition in EC2. We will also talk about how it works behind the scenes. As always, bring your questions for a Q&A at the end.

Hero
Headshot of Travis Cox with an image of a tea cup.
Integrator Program Level
Gold Certified
Premier
Enterprise
Distributor
Thumbnail
Headshot of Travis Cox with an image of a tea cup.
Wistia ID
lw04gwkgia
Topic
Architecture
Enterprise
Featured at Location
Integrator Homepage
Learning Series
Coffee and Tea
icc | 2022 International Session

Architetture Flessibili e Modulari per Progetti di Trasformazione Digitale Compiuti

Ignition è la piattaforma software che permette di implementare progetti di digitalizzazione industriale con architetture capaci di adattarsi alle diverse esigenze applicative. Durante il webinar, verranno illustrate le possibilità offerte dalla flessibilità e dall’apertura della piattaforma attualmente utilizzata con successo da oltre il 50% delle aziende Fortune 500. A differenza degli SCADA tradizionali, Ignition permette di realizzare progetti in ottica IIoT per il governo completo dei processi digitali in ambito produttivo.

46 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2022 Community Session

Deploying the Digital Foundations of a Modern, Connected Factory

Digital factory architectures usually grow organically as business requirements evolve and new technologies are developed. Modern technologies and approaches such as infrastructure-as-code, containerization, orchestration, and edge-driven operations solve many problems presented by legacy, organic, point-to-point based architectures. This presentation will give an overview of Factory+, a Sparkplug-powered, open-access digital factory framework developed by the AMRC, and how it can be used to rapidly and reliably deploy, manage and scale the digital foundations of a forward-thinking manufacturing facility.

25 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2022 International Session

How to Best Plan Your Perspective Project

Join us for practical insights on how to ensure success with the Ignition Perspective Module. Whether you're starting your first Ignition Perspective project or want to understand how to best approach your next project, this is the session for you. We’ll cover Perspective’s powerful features, server sizing and architecture design and how to set goals for your design and layout, with considerations for best practice implementations, to achieve faster development.

22 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2022 International Session

Living on the Edge

The iControls team explore the Edge-to-Enterprise Architecture, showcasing the deployment and configuration of the different flavors of the edge licensing, from a single machine level HMI to an enterprise architecture where each edge gateway becomes a reliable source of data from the process, through either gateway network services or MQTT implementation.

61 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2022 Community Session

Key Trends Helping Industry Overcome Digital Transformation Challenges

Digital Transformation is essential for industrial companies to meet the challenges of thriving in an environment where the only certainty is uncertainty. This is driving demand for deploying key technologies to better monitor and control operations, protect against downtime, ensure product fulfillment and high productivity, protect and upskill personnel, enable remote workforces, manage supply chains, and do this while leveraging enhanced cybersecurity architectures. To help industrial companies meet these challenges, this presentation will discuss what are the key technologies and trends that can help these companies accelerate Digital Transformation that enables improved productivity, profitability, agility, reliability, sustainability, resilience and efficiency.

48 min video

Watch the video