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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.

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UNS: Unified Namespace

Digital Transformation is all about data, and companies will only achieve this goal if they manage their data differently than in the past. A Unified Namespace (UNS) is the architectural foundation of successful Digital Transformation initiatives because it enables you to make data accessible from your entire enterprise to a single database.

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Accelerating The Journey From Edge To Cloud To Results

In this webinar, find out how an integrated and proven set of technologies can make the edge-to-cloud journey much faster and easier. Industry experts will explain how to drive successful business outcomes through tools like unified namespace (UNS), digital twins, data lakes, KPI visualization frameworks for OEE and other metrics, and a lot more.

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What Is Edge Computing?

Edge computing means moving computation and data storage capabilities closer to the source of data. Narrowing the distance between data generation and collection can reduce latency, bandwidth usage, and overall cost for the enterprise.

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New Possibilities at the Edge

As industrial organizations do more at the edge of the network, important new questions are arising. What is the relationship between edge systems and centralized systems? What can you do at the edge that you couldn’t do before? How can you use the edge with the cloud effectively?

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Unlimited Edge, Unlimited Web Applications

With the recent Edge and Multi Tenant changes announced at ICC, additional architecture options are opened up for everyone who knows Ignition. We'll talk through what these mean on a technical level and discuss the types of solutions customers are investing in with these technologies and how to implement them. As always, there will be an open Q&A at the end, so bring any technical questions you have.

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New to Ignition? Learn the Lingo With This Glossary.

When you're a newcomer to the world of Ignition, it’s exciting to learn about all of the things you can do with it, but there are also some challenges. One of the challenging things is learning the various terms and acronyms associated with Ignition and with industrial automation in general. To help with that, we've put together this glossary of some of the most common terms that you'll hear. Along with a short definition, each term includes a link to further information. We hope this helps jumpstart your Ignition journey.

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De-Risk Your Digital Transformation — And Reduce Time, Cost & Complexity

Although many manufacturers want to get a Digital Transformation project going, they feel hesitant about investing major time and effort into a project that may not deliver the desired results. However, just imagine if you could achieve a quick win for Digital Transformation in only 90 minutes!

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icc | 2022 Community Session

Ignition: The New Enterprise Connection Platform

The quest for greater productivity and reduced costs is driving market forces and investments into new projects trying to combat today’s challenges from the supply chain, labor, and inflation. Learn how Ignition has advanced from the “New SCADA Platform'' to become the standard tool for OT-to-IT Enterprise Digital Transformation. The session will discuss and demonstrate how Ignition with MQTT/Sparkplug is the “Swiss Army knife” Digital Transformation platform from the edge to the cloud to achieve these goals. Get your Enterprise ready to Xperience and Xplore the serendipitous nature of your OT data!

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icc | 2022 Panel

Drain The Data Lake - Model And Contextualize Your OT Data at the Edge

Join a panel of Ignition community experts who helped the State of Indiana launch a Digital Transformation program for manufacturers quickly and simply. Energy data, manufacturing output, and other OT data can be collected and modeled in-plant, and efficiently published into cloud infrastructure and unsupervised AI for actionable insights with a pre-built “I4.0 in a Box” solution.

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