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icc | 2025 Build-a-Thon

Build-a-Thon: 2025

Prepare for the return of the Build-a-Thon, bringing with it all the thrilling design challenges, innovative solutions, and unforgettable moments you've come to expect! This year, two leading integration companies will go head-to-head, showcasing their expertise as they build the most impressive Ignition project. Witness the excitement live at this truly unique, educational, and competitive SCADA event, culminating in the crowning of our next Build-a-Thon champion!

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icc | 2024 IA Session

8.3 Deep Dive: Platform Updates

There’s so much going into 8.3 that we need a few sessions to talk about it all! Join us in this first of two sessions where we look closer at a few exciting changes happening at the platform level, and what it means for deployments in the future. In this session, we’ll focus on changes to the platform, such as the file system, API access, and secret management.

47 min video

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Power Hour

Behind The Scenes Of Ignition’s Public Demo

In this first installment of Power Hour, Application Engineering Managers from Inductive Automation will share the inner workings of how IA built the Ignition public demo, offering expert development strategies and tips and tricks for Ignition Perspective along the way.

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case study Electronics

Custom Visual Tools Help Bring Animatronic Creatures To Life

Creature Technology Company developed and implemented the C-Tech 2 system with support from ESM Automation Systems (AKA ESM Australia) and Inductive Automation. The system provides theatrical technicians and operators with simple visual tools to modify or create interaction and motion of complex animatronics figures without needing to access or be experts in PLC, motion, or SCADA programming. The drag-and-drop interface offers a friendly and familiar way to pull dynamic functions from a palette to a workspace and draw links between them to create complex relationships. For this project, the data structures, functions, variables, relationships, and even screen layouts and tabbed views are linked to a PostgreSQL database. Beckhoff industrial controllers, connected to the same database, interpret configurations in the database into logic and motion control settings. The logic and motion control settings are used in conjunction with motion profiles generated by studio animation tools to create fluid, lifelike movements, and interaction of animatronic creatures.

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Device Simulation nstone@inducti… Thu, 10/15/2020 - 13:12

Learn about your options for device simulation, including the new simulator in Ignition, SFCs, and connecting to emulated PLCs. As always, this is also an open Q&A, where we can also discuss any other Ignition related topics.

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webinar

Pushing the Boundaries of Data Visualization

In this webinar, Inductive Automation discusses possibilities for data visualization using Ignition industrial applications with integrators and engineers.

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customer project Military

Detailed Simulation Greatly Improves Training

There are a variety of limiting factors with traditional hands-on equipment training. Most pieces of equipment are not built for the constant repetition required in a classroom or hands-on training environment. In most cases, the number of students exceeds the available equipment — so training is often done in stages rather than in sequence. In addition, valuable and strategic training time is often restricted by the setup and tear-down time. Weather delays are a continual problem for in-the-field, hands-on training. The use of hazardous chemicals and disposal are of real concern as well as the filling and phasing on and off of various component systems such as hydraulics or tank fills. These are all issues that limit the actual training time.

7 min video

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customer project Aerospace

Control Systems Upgrade for NASA Space Simulator

This was a control systems upgrade for the space simulator, which is a joint venture of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology.

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customer project Manufacturing

Andritz Automation Builds a Full-Fledged Virtual Plant

The Ignition application itself is primarily an HMI for an entire pulp mill. It spans all main process areas, except for the recovery boiler. The application is composed of 71,512 tags, 107 distinct displays, and 2,333 alarms. Parameterized popups are, of course, used extensively and are available for every motor, valve, and control loop. The training functions are built into the same application and are a straightforward database application with SQL Server as the database.

6 min video

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