Inductive Automation Blog

Go beyond the buzzword to check out real examples of IIoT solutions in the oil and gas, transportation, and water/wastewater industries.

Inductive Automation had the honor of developing a SCADA dashboard for the Process Expo that displayed SCADA uses for equipment supplied by a variety of vendors.

It’s an oft-recounted part of Inductive Automation’s history, but it’s worth repeating: IA Founder and CEO Steve Hechtman worked as an integrator for 25 years before developing our sig...

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) led us into industry 3.0 about 50 years ago. Learn why PLCs are important for our new journey into industry 4.0.

The 2021 Ignition Community Conference marked Inductive Automation’s second foray into the world of virtual conferencing and once again proved that no matter the physical distance betw...

Holidays are a gift-giving time and it’s always nice to get a gift, but have you noticed how some gifts last longer than others? Some break and get tossed out, some lose their novelty ...

Editor’s Note: At Inductive Automation, we like to engage in conversations with other thought leaders in the industrial space. Recently, our marketing content team had the opportunity ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the 2020 Ignition Community Conference was unlike any ICC before. This year’s ICC, held on September 15th, was the eighth ICC overall and the first ful...

The release train is chugging right along as Ignition 8.0.10 rolls into the station. After making a quick course correction with Ignition 8.0.9 (more about that in the next paragraph),...

We are excited to announce the release of a brand new how-to video series on implementing MQTT in Ignition. We created this series as an easy-to-follow guide that will explain how this...