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icc | 2025 Community Session

Fueling Manufacturing Integration With AI & Ignition Containers

Explore how AI is transforming the development of Ignition applications and integrations across the manufacturing enterprise. This session demonstrates how AI-assisted coding, architecture generation, and integration design accelerate the creation of modular, containerized Ignition solutions. By deploying Ignition in containers and leveraging AI to streamline development workflows, manufacturers can modernize legacy systems, unify data sources, and deploy more scalable, intelligent applications. Learn how this approach enhances developer productivity, reduces integration time, and supports more agile, connected operations across MES, SCADA, and enterprise platforms.

51 min video

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icc | 2025 Community Session

MES and Beyond: Where Execution Meets Intelligence

Build systems that support today’s goals — and shape tomorrow’s possibilities. This session explores how open, modular MES platforms provide the digital backbone for future-ready operations. In addition to core functions like production tracking, traceability, and quality management, modern MES should drive execution on the plant floor, orchestrate workflows, and enable proactive decision-making through real-time insights, advanced analytics, and AI readiness. Join experts from Sepasoft to see how Sepasoft MES supports continuous improvement and fuels long-term innovation.

45 min video

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customer project Aerospace

Ignition-Powered UNS Establishes Single Source Of Truth For Aerospace Manufacturer

BMT Aerospace is modernizing its factories for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by combining centralized data collection with innovative software solutions to improve quality and efficiency. With the help of AT-Automation, BMT Aerospace implemented an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-connected Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with a database structured as a Unified Namespace (UNS), establishing a single source of truth across the organization.

8 min video

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customer project Food and Beverage

Fully Automated Distillery Uses Ignition To Integrate SCADA, MES, ERP & Cloud Analytics Into Single Platform

Whiskey House of Kentucky built a fully modern, greenfield distillery with Ignition at the core, integrating SCADA, MES, ERP, and cloud analytics into a single, flexible digital platform. The project enables real-time operations, full barrel traceability, and customer visibility, setting a new benchmark for innovation in custom whiskey manufacturing.

10 min video

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customer project Mining

PGM Operations Gain Remote Visibility And Increased Cybersecurity With New ASM-Style Ignition System

Concera developed an Abnormal Status Monitoring (ASM)-style SCADA platform in Ignition to replace the existing legacy SCADA systems at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Rustenburg platinum area. The new SCADA encompasses three vertical shafts, 10 air compressors, and various utility areas to enable efficient operation of the system, as well as remote viewing of data and screens from multiple locations.

13 min video

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webinar Energy

Building Sustainable Industrial Systems And A Better Future

Join control system experts as they share real-world Ignition projects that are helping organizations in various industries make significant progress in their sustainability goals, from reducing paper usage, to effective energy monitoring, lowering carbon footprints, providing cleaner energy, and more.

57 min video

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case study Food and Beverage

MES Solution Delivers Traceability & Flexibility To Juice Concentrate Manufacturer’s New Facility

In 2022, Döhler South Africa realized they were reaching capacity in their production facility, an impasse that countless growing companies have reached. With the help of INTEG System Integrators, Döhler successfully implemented a massive manufacturing system built in Ignition that balances a staggering amount of functionality with an intuitive interface.

13 min video

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case study Recycling

Driving Efficiency and Visibility at rPlanet Earth

rPlanet Earth partnered with Kanoa to implement Kanoa MES — a modular, composable manufacturing execution system built specifically for Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform.

7 min read

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article article

The Purdue Model And Ignition

In the automation world, the Purdue Model (also known as the Purdue reference model, Purdue network model, ISA 95, or the Automation Pyramid) is a well-known architectural framework for industrial control systems (ICS).

4 min read

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icc | 2024 Community Session

Kanoa Exhibitor Demo: Kanoa: MES for the Masses

Kanoa MES is a modern Smart Manufacturing solution designed in and for Ignition. Learn about the Kanoa MES Modules, Kanoa MES Database, and Kanoa APP Ignition project you'll use to get started with Kanoa MES. Check out a live demo of Kanoa Ops and Kanoa Quality to see how you can configure your MES in days and get insights into your manufacturing data with ease.

33 min video

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