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Fixing SCADA: How Ignition Reduces Frustration
Join Inductive Automation’s Don Pearson and Kevin McClusky along with a panel of experienced industrial professionals as they discuss how organizations like yours are experiencing smoother operations, better connectivity, more flexible development, and fewer tech-related headaches by using the Ignition industrial application platform.
World’s Largest Yogurt Plant Thrives on Ignition
Chobani uses Ignition at all three of its plants — on filler and packaging lines, for quality control, in asset management, with enterprise resource planning (ERP), and in capital-expenditure project management. “Ignition has really taken Chobani by storm,” said Hugh Roddy, vice president of global engineering and project management for Chobani. “Once we brought Ignition onboard, it opened up a new world for us.” That includes access to data that Chobani never had before. With Ignition, Chobani can see data from the plant floor all the way up to the executive level.
4 min video
ICC 2018 Keynote
The world of industrial automation is changing for the better and the Ignition community of industrial professionals are leading the way. In this special extended keynote, you'll hear from Inductive Automation's leadership about the exciting new developments at the company, in the Ignition community, and for the Ignition platform as you get a preview of the game-changing new features of Ignition 8.
78 min video
4 Graphic Design Tips to Improve HMIs
To help you design HMI screens that are optimized to improve performance, this tip sheet covers four ways to use one of the most powerful design principles to optimize your HMI projects – creating emphasis.
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Fixing SCADA: How Ignition Reduces Frustration
Join Inductive Automation’s Don Pearson and Kevin McClusky along with a panel of experienced industrial professionals as they discuss how organizations like yours are experiencing smoother operations, better connectivity, more flexible development, and fewer tech-related headaches by using the Ignition industrial application platform.
Design Like a Pro: Planning Enterprise Solutions
This presentation will help you start and maintain a smoother development process that results in an open, interoperable, standards-based, and secure enterprise solution.
60 min video
Ignition Architectures
One thing that sets Ignition apart is its server-centric web-based deployment model; you can deploy it anywhere and use it everywhere. Discover unlimited expansion with our standard architecture. Get massive amounts of data under control with the scale-out architecture. Link multiple local and remote sites to the central Ignition Gateway with the Hub and Spoke architecture, and collect data from any field device with the IIoT Architecture. The possibilities for SCADA solutions are endless.
3 min video
How to Quickly Create Effective Plant-Floor Screens
Learn how to use the Ignition Vision Module to rapidly build top-notch screens and easily deploy them to HMIs and other industrial displays on your plant floor.
60 min video
Pharma Company Meets Standards for 21 CFR 11 with Ignition
When Bachem Americas needed a system for human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), it required one that could not only improve its processes, but also satisfy requirements from the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 11 — also known as 21 CFR 11 — establishes rules for the use of electronic records and signatures, covering authentication, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more.
5 min video
Custom ERP Software for a Variety of Businesses
North Point Technology, LLC has created ProFusionSM, a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP system designed for small project-based businesses that need all the features of the big brands without the price tag. North Point calls it “ERP for the Rest of Us.”
8 min video
Real-Time and Historical Data Improve OEE
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) contracted Piedmont Automation to build a monitoring & control system that would enable DTNA’s operators to call for help and still keep the continuous assembly lines running.
7 min video
Technology Panel: Open Technology's Impact on Industrial Automation
Industrial automation is changing faster than ever, and the adoption of open technologies is a big reason why. In this panel discussion, you'll hear from many of the innovators and thought leaders behind some of the open technologies that are impacting industry the most, such as MQTT, OPC UA, the Ignition platform, and more. In this fascinating session, our panel will also discuss the benefits and challenges associated with using open technologies as well as the potential role of these technologies in the continuing evolution of the industrial automation industry.
62 min video
Largest Offshore Oil Operation in Argentina Improves Production
ENAP Argentina has operations in the Austral Basin and the San Jorge Gulf Basin. The Magallanes area has five oil and gas production platforms. It is the largest offshore operation in Argentina. ENAP has an integrated business model based on a strategic management process and projects, whose ultimate goal is to increase the value of the company with safety and responsibility, contributing to the integration and energy supply of Argentina and Chile.
6 min video
Solar-Power Provider Improves Integration, Data Analysis, and Reporting
DEPCOM uses Ignition for monitoring and controlling solar power plants — and also for data analysis, troubleshooting, design, and reporting. By analyzing historical data from Ignition, DEPCOM continually improves plant performance and efficiency. DEPCOM also likes Ignition for its fast development tools and flexibility in integrating with other platforms.
4 min video
Fixing SCADA: How Ignition Saves Money
In this webinar, Inductive Automation's Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson and a panel of experienced industrial professionals discusses how organizations like yours are saving money with Ignition — and how to start getting a lot more out of your SCADA system for a lot less.
57 min video
Early Success with Ignition Leads to Expanded Role
When CFF wanted a comprehensive software package that could run processes across several departments while collecting and analyzing data, it turned to Ignition by Inductive Automation®. Ignition is an industrial application platform with numerous tools for building solutions in human-machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
4 min video