Simplifying Single-Machine to Full-Enterprise MES Implementations

In this session, you'll learn about practical solutions to the common pain points associated with implementing new MES systems. You'll get a look at the new and exciting MES products and features that Sepasoft will be introducing to the Ignition community. Attendees will also get to see a live demonstration of ERP integrations, enterprise functionality, and other tools that will simplify their own MES implementation. Don't miss your chance to get an early preview of Sepasoft's new and exciting MES products.

From Zero to SCADA: Rapidly Building a SCADA System from the Pipeline to the Cloud

What if you had to upgrade a large-scale pipeline SCADA system in only three months? That was the challenge facing ARB Midstream when it acquired a new pipeline asset. ARB contracted Industrial Networking Solutions (INS) to migrate from its slow, high-cost, legacy SCADA software to a modern SCADA solution with cloud-based reporting, management, visibility, control, and redundancy features. In this session, get a detailed look at how ARB Midstream and INS leveraged the limitless power of Ignition, Ignition Edge, MQTT and AWS to deliver a standardized network infrastructure and a scalable, centrally manageable SCADA platform in just a few months.

From Enterprise Order to Factory Implementation in One Week

Large enterprise-wide rollouts can be daunting. There are implementation challenges that have to be overcome, along with internal stake-holders that need to be aligned. The implementation for a single plant can take months alone; so what do you do if you have dozens of plants, spread across a large geographical area? Saint-Gobain Abrasives faced this challenge when implementing Ignition, so they turned to the rapid-Ignition-implementation experts at Plantformance. In this session, you'll see how to employ IT best practices, state-of-the-art hardware, and Ignition to go from an enterprise order to a factory implementation in just one week. You'll learn from the first-hand experience of how Saint-Gobain is doing this now, and you'll get to see a live world-wide Ignition infrastructure maintenance operation demo.

Ignition & Water/Wastewater: Doing Less With More

Water/wastewater lives the adage, “Do more with less.” Except Ignition is more: more than SCADA, more than visualization, more than a database front-end. And because it gives users more, they spend less time developing, less time maintaining, and less time securing their system. In this session, you'll hear the story of how a water district in the eastern US is using Ignition as their engine of innovation to drive continual advancements. Learn how they got started, the challenges they overcame, and where Ignition is helping them go, culminating in a sneak peek of the city’s newest cybersecurity project.

Open Source, Open Collaboration

From transportation to the industrial sector, software is eating the world, and open-source software is one of biggest drivers behind this transformation. Join Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, to learn about their mission to create a mature, scalable, and commercially focused environment for collaboration and innovation. In this session, you'll learn about the many advantages of using open-source software, its impact on the emergence of IoT, and the things companies need to do to embrace and benefit from the digital transformation.

Configuring Devices in Ignition Using UDTs and the EAM

Configuring devices with user-defined type (UDT) tags on servers at multiple production sites can be challenging; in this session you'll learn how to do it in Ignition. The Ignition Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) is a powerful management tool that gives you the ability to manage not only servers and project objects but devices across the enterprise. Join Lynn Martineau of Autoliv to see how he's using centralized tools to configure devices, reducing the need to access multiple Ignition Gateways and Designers and simplifying training and support.

Midstream Middleware - An Evolutionary Journey with MQTT

In this engaging session from the COO of Streamline Control Solutions, Peter Boyle, you'll gain insight into the innovative process Plains Midstream Canada used to move their SCADA serial communications infrastructure to middleware using MQTT. You'll learn more about the successes and challenges of the journey, including the initial objectives of the decision, the process to get there, the early-stage benefits of the conversion, and more.

Solving Typical Enterprise MES Architectures with Sepasoft

In this session, Sepasoft will update the community on new products and features for MES. The focus will be on MES Enterprise 2.0 solving issues in enterprise MES use cases. See a live demonstration of MES Enterprise 2.0 functionality and how it can simplify your enterprise implementation!

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.

Practical Tips for Rolling Out an Enterprise System

An enterprise rollout of a new system can be a daunting task. There are architecture and design considerations, technical and project management challenges, as well as financial and organizational demands that must be met. In this session, you'll get practical tips on how to tackle these kinds of challenges, all while staying focused on the most important part of any system rollout: delivering valuable, actionable data to your end user.