Inductive Automation Blog

Blending OT and IT: Meeting Plant-Floor and Enterprise Challenges with Ignition

For Tyson Foods, the challenges of running a global food processing company are both big and small: How do you keep production on-target and improve efficiencies on an individual line or multiple lines across a facility? How do you manage resources and maintain servers across the enterprise? Tyson Foods is solving these challenges, along with many others, by using Ignition. In this session, you’ll hear how Tyson uses Ignition all the way from the plant-floor level, where it helps improve their processes, to the enterprise level, where they use it along with the Enterprise Administration Module to manage their system centrally.

Industry Panel: Using Ignition to Adapt and Stay Competitive

This panel discussion brings together Ignition users from leading companies in a number of different industries. They'll talk about how they're utilizing Ignition within their enterprises to help meet their customers’ changing demands, manage growth, and fuel innovation to strengthen their competitive advantages.

Integrator Panel: Positioning Your Integration Business for Success

At this panel discussion, some of the leading system integrators in the Ignition community will talk about many aspects of success for integrators today, including the Integrator Program, strategies for business growth, technology trends, and how Ignition helps transform challenges into opportunities.

Beyond Compliance: Improving Food Safety and Traceability with Ignition and the Sepasoft MES Modules

In this session you’ll learn how the Food Safety Modernization Act has changed the way food producers and suppliers do business. You’ll also see several examples of how and where using Ignition and integrated MES technologies can make a big impact. Learn how modern MES software from Sepasoft and Inductive Automation can be used to enhance food safety plans and processes by ensuring truth in labeling, product quality, and traceability — automatically on the plant floor.

The Enterprise Transformation Journey: How Reynolds American Created a World-Class Operation

Projects are hard – transformation takes courage! Few industries face the challenges that the tobacco industry faces. The success Reynolds American achieved over the past 10 years is truly a remarkable story. Join Reynolds American and their integrator Brock Solutions as they tell the story of leading the transformation of the industry and their organization — leveraging leading-edge technology, driving measurable business value, and overcoming barriers that few thought possible to conquer. And the journey is far from over as Ignition is blazing new trails to creating a digitally connected enterprise.

Using Ignition to Innovate New Solutions for Food Processing

A winner of Food Engineering's Plant of the Year Award, and an innovator in their industry, SugarCreek Packing Company embraces cutting-edge disruptive technologies across their operations, from the processing of their food products to the management of their IIoT infrastructure. At this intriguing session, you'll hear from SugarCreek’s Director of Operational Technology Dan Stauft and Director of Information Technology Todd Pugh about how they leverage Ignition to empower their processes, get an advantage over their competition, and achieve a solid return on investment.

Transforming Food Processing: Bridging IT and OT with Ignition

Hear how a leading food processor is using Ignition to bridge the gap between IT and OT, and the transformative effect this is having on their processes. Hugh Roddy of Chobani will talk about the process of moving from their old infrastructure to an Ignition system that emphasizes agility and mobility, and the process and business upsides of that transformation.