Inductive Automation Blog

ARC Advisory Group, the leading industrial technology research and advisory firm, held its 23rd Annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, last month. During this year’s ARC Industry Forum, Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson met up with ARC Advisory Group Vice President of Consulting Craig Resnick for a fast-paced executive interview about the imminent release of Ignition 8, and other topics like edge computing, advanced analytics, and digital transformation.

The excitement is building as we put the finishing touches on Ignition 8 in preparation for its upcoming release. Ignition 8 is currently in open beta and we appreciate all of the great feedback we’ve gotten so far through that program. The highest-profile feature of Ignition 8 will be a new, mobile-focused visualization module called the Ignition Perspective Module.

At ICC 2018, we announced that Ignition 8 will be released in February 2019. A major part of Ignition 8 is the all-new Ignition Perspective Module, which will offer Ignition users a mobile-first, browser-based design environment for the first time. Perspective is the kind of solution we’ve been wanting to build for years and our excitement about it must’ve been contagious because we’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about Perspective and its relationship to the Vision Module. Some of you have even asked if Perspective is replacing the Vision Module in the near future. Our short answer is no, the Vision Module isn’t going anywhere; in fact, Ignition 8 will include major improvements to Vision. We’re excited to release Perspective and we know that Vision will continue to be a valuable, highly effective module.