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icc | 2024 Community Session

How Ignition Saves Time Money & Lives for Medical Charity

See firsthand how UK charity SERV Kent uses Ignition to create an AWS cloud-based volunteer management system to revolutionize its medical transport operations. Driven by Ignition Perspective, this application replaces archaic manual processes with intuitive interfaces featuring real-time geolocation data transfers, GDPR-compliant security, and optimized volunteer, vehicle, and product management. Hear Chris Taylor discuss the project’s challenges, solutions, progression, and future enhancements and breakthroughs that will bolster SERV Kent's mission-critical endeavors.

32 min video

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icc | 2024 IA Session

Breakthrough to the Other Gateways: A Deep Dive Into the Gateway Network

Multi-gateway deployments are becoming more commonplace, and Ignition's gateway network provides the backbone for redundancy, enterprise management, and sharing data between gateways. Join us for this session and take a look at various Gateway Network parameters and settings that drive customer solutions.

45 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Breaking Through Manufacturing Challenges with DxOps Transformation

Learn how to combine consistent processes with novel concepts to break through challenges in downtime tracking and OEE visibility. In this session, RoviSys will share how their DxOps Transformation approach, used at Nice Pak, helped overcome high variation between production lines and facilities, lack of data connectivity, extensive turnover, and data integrity gaps. Learn how to standardize integration methods for better scalability and real-time tracking and see how these solutions can enhance efficiency in your facilities. Don’t miss this "how to" guide on transforming challenges into opportunities for breakthrough success!

44 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Scaling to New Heights: Enterprise Ignition with Ease

In this session, 4IR Solutions will showcase best practices and technologies to rapidly deploy and remotely manage large-scale Ignition systems in the cloud and on-prem across hundreds of sites. We'll demonstrate zero-touch provisioning and real-time updates to a fleet of Ignition installations.

42 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Optimizing Load Time in Ignition Perspective

How can you ensure that screens load fast and actions are snappy when using Ignition Perspective to create bigger and better projects? Learn how in this presentation, which will discuss strategies for optimizing screen development, organizing nested views, and analyzing Perspective execution. You’ll also get a look at simple rules-of-thumb for bindings, complex custom svg components, and where to strike the balance between performance and maintainability.

37 min video

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case study Oil and Gas

Water Infrastructure Company Replaces Point-To-Point VPN With MQTT

Goodnight Midstream chose Ignition because it could fulfill several requirements: data mining and business intelligence work on the system backend; powerful Linux-based edge deployments; easy upgrades that could be performed by administrative staff; location data driven by an external database; and template support.

8 min video

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case study Manufacturing

Building Product Manufacturer Implements Cutting-Edge MES Solution At 15 Plants And Counting

CertainTeed, a division of Saint-Gobain North America, has adopted Ignition along with many of the core Sepasoft modules to deploy ‘FaCTory+’ – a Vision-based MES solution. This system is currently being utilized by 15+ plants with many more on the roadmap. The key reasons behind its success are the close collaboration between the IT, operational, and business teams; its user-friendly and data-centric UI; and the sophisticated architecture that has allowed CertainTeed to scale easily from site to site.

10 min video

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case study Food and Beverage

Food Manufacturer Uses Ignition To Enhance Efficiency & Quality In Three Largest Bakeries

Goodman Fielder is a food manufacturer with a portfolio of well-known grocery and foodservice brands. Goodman Fielder’s markets span Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Islands, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia. This project includes the Goodman Fielder Baking division in Australia, starting with their three largest bakeries: Clayton in Melbourne, Victoria; Moorebank in Sydney, New South Wales; Burleigh Heads in Gold Coast, Queensland. Goodman Fielder envisaged streamlining the day-to-day production processes through Digital Transformation and implementing modern Industry 4.0 best practices and technology. To enhance production efficiency and product quality from the mixing equipment, Goodman Fielder identified the need for additional data automation, prompting the establishment of a SAP, Recipe, and Scheduling Initiative.

11 min video

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case study Agriculture

Ignition Aids Large SCADA Agriculture Project Outside Cairo

Madkour Group needed to achieve Digital Transformation on the project infrastructure and automation system for the National Project for Developing the New Valley in Toshka. The project aims to reclaim one million acres outside of Cairo as part of Egypt’s overall plan to reclaim and cultivate three million acres in total. Leveraging Ignition’s scalable architecture, unlimited licensing, flexibility, and rapid development tools, Madkour established a central control building to easily operate, manage, and maintain a large number of sites, equipment, and facilities spread out across this vast desert area.

13 min video

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Creating Predictive Maintenance Alert using Ignition + Canary DB

This session provides an in depth walkthrough of how Shamrock Foods Company is able to collect motor data and use it to alert maintenance personnel of a potentially failing asset. This tutorial will walk you through the steps from PLC amp data to Ignition, Ignition data sent to Canary DB, Canary DB calculations of average + Standard Deviation of data, and back to Ignition to generate alarms.

37 min video

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