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Building Open & Scalable Multi-Site Enterprise Architectures

With the powerful features, products and protocols available in Ignition — like the Gateway Network, Ignition Edge, and MQTT — building open and scalable enterprise architectures is easier and more beneficial than ever before. Get best practices from an Ignition expert on how to build multi-site enterprise architectures that efficiently distribute the workload across multiple Ignition gateways.

Solving Typical Enterprise MES Architectures with Sepasoft

In this session, Sepasoft will update the community on new products and features for MES. The focus will be on MES Enterprise 2.0 solving issues in enterprise MES use cases. See a live demonstration of MES Enterprise 2.0 functionality and how it can simplify your enterprise implementation!

Connecting at the Edge: Real Hardware Solutions for the Real IIoT

For years, the Industrial Internet of Things was more of an idea than a reality; now that's all changing because there are many solutions you can start using today to quickly and easily connect to all the "things" at the edge of the network. In this session, you'll get to see the many IIoT-ready products you can start using with Ignition to connect all kinds of devices like PLCs, panels, edge gateways, and more. You'll also learn some great tips and strategies for how to put them into action in brownfield situations so you can start leveraging legacy infrastructure to build a modern IIoT architecture.

Building Scalable Ignition Enterprise Architectures

With the introduction of the Gateway Network feature in Ignition v7.9 and the Ignition Edge products this year, it's now possible to build new types of architectures that are much more scalable than before. In this session, we'll discuss highly scalable architectures that allow you to better distribute large workloads across multiple Ignition Gateways in the enterprise, and to extend Ignition from the enterprise level all the way to the edge of your network.

Transforming the Modern Oil Field: Moving to a Distributed Gateway Architecture

Pioneer Natural Resources is a large, Texas-based independent exploration and production company that delivers industry-leading production and reserve growth through onshore, unconventional oil and gas resource development in the United States. SCADA Operations and Development Manager Charles Lame will present an interesting case study of how Pioneer is using Ignition to move from a single-server architecture to a scaled-out enterprise architecture with distributed services. Their large-scale implementation features more than 1,700,000 tags and 29,000-plus device connections, logging 52 million records per day and polling 160,000,000 tags overall.

The IIoT Revolution: Transforming the Modern Enterprise Architecture

As the demand increases for faster industrial data analysis at an enterprise level, the need for a more simple, standardized, and connected system architecture becomes greater than ever. Through the decoupling of devices and applications, a new type of IIoT architecture holds the promise of increased data throughput, greater agility, and improved enterprise-wide communication. In this session, learn more about some of the factors driving this new trend and how IIoT could reshape the way industrial organizations think about and implement their system architectures for years to come.

Exploring Ignition Architectures & Enterprise Administration Module

Ignition can be set up to accommodate a wide range of system architectures; learn about some of the most effective ones and learn how the new Enterprise Administration Module can be used to connect multiple systems together.