Inductive Automation Blog

Security Hardening Guide & Perspective Quick Dashboard

Learn about what's new in the updated Security Hardening Guide, get a walk-through of the updated Dashboard Project Template, and bring your questions for an open style Question & Answer session.

The Importance of Connectivity

In this session, we will discuss how Ignition 8.0 and the Perspective module can help during emergencies such as the recent global pandemic. Connectivity to your systems can help accelerate businesses during and afterwards.

Device Simulation

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.

Integrating Ignition 8 with Git for Source Control

In Ignition 8, we laid the foundation for using source control tools by storing projects in the file system. We get a lot of questions about how to effectively use Git for source control. In this session, we will explore the best practices of using an external source control system and setup a complete example.

Ignition Security & Ignition 8.0 Updates

Inductive Automation takes security seriously and is proactive in finding security flaws or vulnerabilities in the product. Inductive Automation is also committed in providing a platform with a host of security features to ensure Ignition is secure in your environment. In this session, we will explore recent security updates to Ignition 8 that address vulnerabilities and new security features. We will also explore the latest feature updates to Ignition 8.

Ignition Edge Changes

As you know, Ignition Edge is a line of lightweight, limited, low-cost Ignition software solutions designed specifically for embedding into field and OEM devices at the edge of the network. Ignition Edge has been extremely popular, however, some of the limitations, such as no Gateway scripting or 3rd party OPC-UA access, have been too restrictive at the edge. Inductive Automation continuously listens to our customers and we are excited to announce some changes and additions to Ignition Edge that will start in December of 2019 to address these pain pints. In this session, we will cover the Ignition Edge changes and additions and answer any questions relating to Edge.

Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Ignition has a few Machine Learning algorithms built in. There are also plenty of integrators who are using external Analytics packages and doing visualization / reports / access through Ignition. We'll spend around 20-30 minutes talking about Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning in Ignition, and then will switch to an open Q&A on any Ignition topic.

Ignition 8.0.5 Updates and Ignition Exchange

Learn about the latest additions and changes to Ignition 8.0.5. We will also talk about the Ignition Exchange that was released 2 weeks ago at ICC 2019. The Ignition Exchange was built to empower you: the Ignition community. Learn how to fully leverage the Exchange, especially for your integration business. Also, learn how to easily install Exchange resources in Ignition.

Perspective Selling Strategies and Latest Updates

Since the release of Ignition 8, existing customers have had a lot of questions and concerns around upgrading and leveraging the Perspective Module. Is Vision going to be supported long-term? Do I have to convert from Vision to Perspective? I want to use Perspective but it requires new development? These are great questions. In this session, we will cover strategies to answer these questions and how to position Perspective. We will also provide tools that will effectively allow an existing customer to take full advantage of Perspective today. Lastly, we will cover all of the important Perspective updates since the last Perspective session.

SFCs

SFCs are one of the less-used features in Ignition, but they are very powerful. We'll review SFC basics, talk over some common use cases and talk through the execution cycle, and then open it up for questions. Please submit questions beforehand or come with some prepared! Questions can be on any topic, so don't limit yourself to just SFC questions.