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icc | 2017 Community Session  |  Food and Beverage

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.

60 min video

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customer project Aerospace

Building a Data-Rich Manufacturing Operations Management System

This project was a manufacturing operations management system created for aerospace research. The system was built using the standard Ignition product, without any third-party modules. The result was a data-rich, non-restrictive system.

9 min video

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case study Food and Beverage

Brewery Improves Efficiency in Multiple Areas with Ignition

To run its main brewery in Escondido, near San Diego, Stone uses Ignition by Inductive Automation® for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and for its manufacturing execution system (MES). Ignition is an industrial application platform with several tools for creating solutions in SCADA, MES, human-machine interface (HMI), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

4 min video

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case study Agriculture

Two Plants, One Solution

Adams Group, the largest supplier of organic expeller-pressed vegetable oils in the US, uses Ignition in its SCADA & MES solution. Read more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

5 min read

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webinar

12 Ways to Use PLCs & SQL Databases Together

Inductive Automation Co-Director of Sales Engineering Travis Cox discusses 12 of the many powerful uses of the SQL Bridge Module. You’ll not only learn a dozen ways to use this versatile tool, you’ll also be able to think up other exciting ways to apply it in your enterprise.

59 min video

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icc | 2016 Community Session  |  Electronics

What's New for the Sepasoft MES Modules

Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.

61 min video

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customer project Manufacturing

Greater Mobility, More Data, Less Paper

The project was aimed at quickly collecting work-order data from the shop floor and communicating it to the company’s ERP system. The goal was to react faster to delays or unforeseen events. To accomplish that it was necessary to adopt a scheduling process supported by software, to give operators an integrated system to collect data on mobile devices.

7 min video

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customer project Food and Beverage

Unique White Box Quickly Reveals Valuable Data

Ignition is used in 11 of the top 50 craft breweries in the United States, yet most of the other breweries have not heard of Ignition. The White Box was developed as the culmination of a nationwide craft brewery campaign that targeted the top 200 craft breweries in the country. The goal was to show off the power of Ignition on a self-contained White Box in an unobtrusive, plug-and-play installation on a bottling or canning line.

8 min video

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webinar

Get More Data into Your SCADA

In this era of Big Data and the IIoT, the need for industrial data has never been greater. Ironically, although SCADA stands for "supervisory control and data acquisition," legacy SCADA systems make it hard to get to a lot of potentially useful data because they lock it inside proprietary systems. Amazing possibilities open up when companies use a tool that can break down data silos and get data from many more sources onto one unified platform.

58 min video

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icc | 2015 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: Meeting Today's Biggest Challenges

63 min video

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