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icc | 2018 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: How to Lead With Ignition

At this panel discussion, you’ll hear some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators talk about how they are finding success for their companies and customers by leading with Ignition. In this session, our expert panel of integrators will discuss tips for how to win more projects with Ignition, keep up with technology trends, and open new opportunities for future development.

61 min video

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icc | 2018 Community Session  |  Aerospace

Top 6 Tips for Delivering a Successful MES Project

A successful MES project has the potential to deliver huge efficiency improvements that can boost production and save money. In this session, you'll hear specific strategies you can put into action right now to improve your MES implementations. Make your next MES project a success with great tips about how to plan your project, map your process, fully leveraging actionable information, and designing a great UX for OEE projects.

55 min video

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icc | 2018 Community Session  |  Aerospace

Firebrand Awards Panel (2018)

At the end of each conference, the Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to the most outstanding real-world Ignition projects featured in our yearly Discovery Gallery project showcase. Join us to celebrate the creative spirit of the Ignition community as we honor this year’s Firebrand Award winners and hear their stories of struggle, innovation, and triumph in a fun and informative panel discussion led by Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer, Don Pearson.

55 min video

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customer project Water/Wastewater

Two Water Agencies Modernize and Expand Their SCADA Systems

This is a modernization project, as two water agencies moved from old systems to new ones. The two neighboring water agencies have been so pleased with initial results, they are expanding on Ignition to include more of their operations.

6 min video

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customer project Water/Wastewater

Water Agency Gets Unified Platform, Better Reporting, and More

H2O Innovation turned BRPUA’s antiquated, incohesive SCADA system into a new state-of-the-art Ignition redundant SCADA system. A key part of the project gave BRPUA a much faster, easier way to submit reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Other reports were automated as well.

6 min video

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customer project Water/Wastewater

Improving Efficiency in Filter Process for Water Utility

To increase flow rates at its water treatment plant to meet rising demand, the City of Hot Springs needed to upgrade its antiquated filter controls as well as the filters themselves. Brown Engineers helped the City use its recently installed Ignition SCADA platform to dramatically improve the automatic backwash process, conserve water, improve water quality, and initiate collection of filter data needed to extend regulatory run-time limits.

7 min video

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webinar Water/Wastewater

10 Steps to Architecting a Sustainable SCADA System

In this webinar, Kent Melville and Annie Wise from Inductive Automation, and water/wastewater controls professionals Henry Palechek and Jason Hamlin, cover the 10 steps for building a sustainable SCADA system that survives and even thrives using only your operational expenditure budget.

53 min video

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case study Water/Wastewater

Ignition Increases Flexibility, Lowers Costs for Two Water Utilities

Both Mountain Regional Water District and Park City Water have seen significant improvements since switching from their previous SCADA systems to Ignition. MRW saves more than $400,000 per year on energy with greater control from Ignition. Park City saves the equivalent of one full-time employee by using Ignition to automate its reports to a state agency. Both utilities plan to do more with Ignition in the future. And operators are becoming more engaged with the data at both organizations, creating their own screens in Ignition.

4 min video

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icc | 2017 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: Positioning Your Integration Business for Success

At this panel discussion, some of the leading system integrators in the Ignition community will talk about many aspects of success for integrators today, including the Integrator Program, strategies for business growth, technology trends, and how Ignition helps transform challenges into opportunities.

64 min video

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icc | 2017 Community Session  |  Food and Beverage

The Enterprise Transformation Journey: How Reynolds American Created a World-Class Operation

Projects are hard – transformation takes courage! Few industries face the challenges that the tobacco industry faces. The success Reynolds American achieved over the past 10 years is truly a remarkable story. Join Reynolds American and their integrator Brock Solutions as they tell the story of leading the transformation of the industry and their organization — leveraging leading-edge technology, driving measurable business value, and overcoming barriers that few thought possible to conquer. And the journey is far from over as Ignition is blazing new trails to creating a digitally connected enterprise.

63 min video

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