Inductive Automation Blog

Connecting you to ideas, tips, updates and thought-leadership
from Inductive Automation

icc | 2024 Community Session

Breaking Through Limits: Igniting Transformation in Manufacturing

Follow Entegris and NeoMatrix's joint journey to digital transformation. Beginning in 2008, the two organizations recognized the need to upgrade the SCADA platforms of multiple machines, and they chose Inductive Automation's solutions. From Ignition's precursor FactoryPMI and FactorySQL to today's Ignition 8.1 with Perspective, this session will take you on a tour of how these partners established Ignition as its standard OT platform for increasing scalability and cost savings as they continue to grow globally and expand to multiple manufacturing industries.

47 min video

Watch the video
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

Watch the video
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

Watch the case study
webinar Food and Beverage

Unleashing ROI And Innovation With Ignition

No matter how you look at ROI, Ignition is the best choice for HMI, SCADA, and Digital Transformation software. In this webinar, you’ll find out why that’s true by hearing the experiences of industrial professionals who have worked with Ignition for years.

54 min video

Watch the webinars
case study Energy

Object-Oriented Approach Facilitates Improved Control For Large-Scale Neutrino Experiment

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is the latest large-scale neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which will be used to analyze the properties of neutrinos, a family of elusive fundamental particles. The main volume of the detector consists of 112 tons of liquid argon, kept cold and pure by an elaborate cryogenic system, which is monitored and controlled via Ignition.

11 min video

Watch the case study
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

Watch the case study
icc | 2024 Community Session

How Ignition is Enabling the Future of Oil & Gas

The oil & gas industry relies on SCADA for all its major production activities. But oil & gas companies often have large-scale, complex requirements that require unique solutions to not only monitor the field, but also integrate that data throughout the enterprise. Attend this session to learn how Ignition is meeting the unique requirements of oil & gas companies with Techneaux and Bifrost.

41 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2024 Community Session

How To Harness Modern MES for AI and Innovation

Learn from MES-experts Sepasoft how MES fuels the success of AI and BI initiatives, driving organizations toward actionable insights and a competitive edge. In the Industry 4.0 era, the success of AI and BI technologies in manufacturing hinges on high-quality data. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) play a crucial role integrating with the plant floor and enriching production data with essential metadata, plus adding valuable context for machine learning and advanced analytics. MES provides real-time visibility for informed decision-making and cuts the typical 80% time investment data scientists devote to becoming subject matter experts and preprocessing data.

52 min video

Watch the video
icc | 2024 Community Session

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Strategies for SCADA Systems

SCADA systems can become complex and unwieldy when managed by numerous engineers or when ownership changes through acquisitions. In this session we will focus on strategies and implementation methods for using Ignition to transform disorganized systems into standardized, efficient operations. This presentation will cover best practices from small, unique projects to large-scale projects with multimillion-tag counts. Highlighting the similarities and differences between these types of projects, this session emphasizes the importance of standards in data modeling and a robust validation and verification process. Implementing these techniques enhances system performance, reduces costs, and increases user confidence — all of which are critical for the successful delivery of projects of any size to clients and stakeholders.

45 min video

Watch the video
customer project Manufacturing

Infrastructure Provider Builds Demo Platform To Give Clients Dynamic View Of Solutions

Vertiv, an organization that manufactures components and implements automation solutions for data centers and communication networks, used Ignition to create an internal and external demo platform that encompasses all of their go-to market offers and solutions, incorporating both manufacturing facilities and critical regional offices.

10 min video

Watch the customer project