Certified for Success—Building a Better Integration Business

Over its 25 years, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) has helped system integrators build better businesses one company at a time. In this session, you'll learn about the help CSIA offers integration companies and you'll hear first-hand from CSIA-certified system integrator Grantek about their successful partnership with CSIA. Grantek is a leading CSIA Certified member who joined CSIA in 2008. Come in and learn of the specific benefits Grantek has derived from this relationship and get ideas to help grow the success of your integration business in this informative, open discussion.

Enterprise Digital Transformation Journey—One Year Later

Dana Inc., a global leader in transportation, and Roeslein & Associates Inc., an Ignition Premier Integrator, won a Firebrand Award for their amazing work in 2018 when they partnered together to embark on Dana's enterprise-wide digital transformation journey. In this insightful session, you'll hear from both Roeslein and Dana about the challenges and triumphs of the first year of their journey together. Discussions will include the successful decisions as well as decisions that they would change if they could do it all over again. You'll learn from their first-hand experiences about what technology and cultural changes are needed to ensure that your own enterprise digital transformation journey is successful.

Cybersecurity's Impact on You, Your Business, and Your Clients

By 2020, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices ranging from our smartphones to wearable technology to industrial machinery. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), our devices and platforms provide increased connectivity without boundaries. However, hand-in-hand with these new interconnected devices are a whole host of dangerous cybersecurity risks. Listen to the first Secretary of Homeland Security and alliantgroup Chairman of Cybersecurity and Technology, Tom Ridge, discuss what exciting developments technology will bring us over the next few years as well as the associated threats that come with it.

Building Better Systems Using Industrial Standards

Standards aren’t meant to eliminate thinking and stifle creativity. If used properly, standards create a common language and a systematic approach to solving problems using industry-wide best practices. They encourage communication and foster creativity in solving engineering problems. In this session, Dennis Brandl, an expert on ISA and IEC international standards, will discuss how to apply the concepts of standardization to improve organizational collaboration and design better systems. You’ll also see how ISA 95, ISA 88, ISA 99, and their international equivalents are being effectively applied to systems today, and what new standards and tools are available now to help organizations build better control systems.

Strategies for Optimizing Your Ignition System Performance

Ignition is an amazing platform for building just about anything, and to take full advantage of everything Ignition can do, you need to be smart about how you set it up. Hear the integration experts at Kymera Systems explain how they help optimize existing Ignition systems to run like new. In this session, you'll learn the key strategies and steps for optimizing your Ignition system to reach peak performance.

We're on the Edge of Glory: Building Intelligent Systems of the Future—Today

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an explosive, extremely toxic chemical found in most natural gas, so potent that it can kill a person with a single breath. Converting H2S into fertilizer-grade sulfur is a dangerous business, one which Streamline Innovations has perfected through superior chemistry, strong business practices, and a state-of-the-art control system that combines Ignition, Ignition Edge, Moxa devices, and MQTT. This semi-autonomous, intelligent system can be operated and managed easily and completely remotely. In this session, learn how Streamline created their control system of the future today using only off-the-shelf products, and get tips on how to do it yourself.

Achieving Business Value with Enterprise Deployments

Two years ago, Inductive Automation introduced the Enterprise Integrator program in response to the growing demand from large, complex global organizations to deploy the Ignition platform across multiple sites for multiple purposes. Inductive defines Enterprise Integrators as “very large integrators (250+ engineers) with a global presence and a reputation for executing large corporate initiatives across multiple sites simultaneously. Such integration firms tend to have long-term relationships with their clients.” Brock Solutions, the first integrator to achieve this status, will share their experiences working with enterprise clients leveraging the Ignition platform to achieve measurable business value – beyond HMI and SCADA.

Ignition in Smart Cities and Smart Factories Applications with ORing and AT&T

In this fascinating session, get a look inside the AT&T IIoT service, learn about ORing edge-to-cloud Ignition solutions for smart cities and smart factories, and check out successful real-world applications being used in various industries. See IIoT solutions in action!

Ignition Firebrand Award Presentation (2019)

The Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to industrial organizations and system integrators whose innovative work — showcased in the Discover Gallery — demonstrates the true potential of the Ignition platform. In this brief session, a representative from each Firebrand-winning company will accept the award from Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson.

Digital Transformation Made Easy with Ignition & MQTT

Progressive leaders are demanding change in order to achieve Digital Transformation. This is driving the creation of new solutions which utilize Big Data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Digital Transformation increases performance and efficiency, and reduces unplanned maintenance and downtime, thus leading to increased revenue and market share and, ultimately, increased profits. In order to take advantage of these new technologies, companies must bridge the OT-IT gap and feed IT infrastructures with data that is secure, easily consumable, and cost-effective. This session will describe how utilizing MQTT and the Ignition platform implements an open-standard architecture solution to deliver a cost-effective Digital Transformation and bridge the OT-IT gap.