Folsom, Calif. (September 17, 2024) — Today at its 2024 Ignition Community Conference, Inductive Automation previewed new features from the upcoming Ignition 8.3 software release and announced the winners and finalists of this year’s Ignition Firebrand Awards.
Now in its twelfth year, the Ignition Community Conference (ICC) brings together industrial professionals from around the world to network, collaborate, and learn more about Ignition — an industrial automation software platform for SCADA, HMI, IIoT, MES, and more — and the ecosystem of technology solutions that work with it.
Ignition 8.3 Discussed in Technical Keynote
During the Technical Keynote session at ICC, Inductive Automation Chief Executive Officer Colby Clegg and Chief Technology Officer Carl Gould discussed several features that will be included in Ignition 8.3, the next major version of Ignition software, which is targeting a January 2025 release.
Clegg and Gould said that Ignition 8.3 features a completely redesigned Ignition Gateway user interface that will be faster, more intuitive, and easier to navigate.
The two leaders also discussed upgrades to the Ignition Perspective Module, including integrated drawing tools, a flexible form generation component, and the ability to design applications for offline use.
Another upcoming feature called Event Streams will allow users to map event data from sources to handlers, giving them new ways to push, transform, filter, and batch data.
Ignition 8.3 will also include a new, public historian API and a new Power Historian that’s embedded in the Ignition platform, along with many other new features, and will be actively supported for five years after its release.
Following Clegg and Gould’s remarks, Chief Technology Evangelist Travis Cox and Chief Technology Architect Kevin McClusky discussed other new features such as secrets management, compatibility with Git for improved version control, and integration for WhatsApp and Twilio, as well as potential use cases for the new version.
2024 Ignition Firebrand Award Winners Announced
Every year at ICC, Inductive Automation bestows Ignition Firebrand Awards to system integrators and industrial organizations that leverage the Ignition software platform to create exceptionally innovative and successful projects. Inductive Automation received a record number of project submissions this year, which the judging panel narrowed down to six Ignition Firebrand Award Winners and 12 finalists.
This year’s six Ignition Firebrand Awards were given to:
NeoMatrix Inc., which helped Lucid Motors implement a real-time factory information system that provides data on manufacturing performance to enable data-driven decisions, optimize processes, and improve overall operational performance.
Deloitte, which implemented a modern SCADA/MES system, realizing Goodman Fielder’s initiative to enhance production efficiency and replace manual processes at their three largest bakeries.
IDOM, which implemented a real-time automation orchestrator for the entire production process at the pharmaceutical company Cinfa, including a Unified Namespace that allows applications to exchange information in a decoupled architecture.
Saint-Gobain CertainTeed, which deployed the Vision Module-based FaCTory+ MES solution, which pulls in production orders from SAP, tracks 24-hour performance, compares current and previous production runs, and more.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which created a library of standardized objects with heavy use of User Defined Types (UDTs), allowing it to easily monitor and control a large-scale experiment analyzing the properties of neutrinos.
Madkour Group, which built a system providing real-time data from remote locations and reporting and analytic tools for the National Project for Developing the New Valley in Toshka, which aims to reclaim vast desert areas as part of Egypt’s overall plan to cultivate three million acres in total.
All of the winners’ and finalists’ project submissions, including videos and written case studies, can be viewed in the online ICC Discover Gallery at: https://icc.inductiveautomation.com/discover-gallery
About Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation creates industrial software that empowers organizations to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles. By cross-pollinating IT with SCADA technologies, Inductive Automation created Ignition software, the first universal industrial application platform with unlimited potential. Ignition empowers industrial organizations around the world and in virtually every industry, with an outstanding software platform and top-notch support. For more information, visit inductiveautomation.com.
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