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Design Like a Pro: Basics of Building Mobile-Responsive HMIs
Join us for the latest Design Like a Pro webinar, where software engineering and design experts from Inductive Automation will share the fundamental concepts you’ll need to design HMIs that function well on any screen size.
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
Get Your ERP & Operational Data Working Together
With a modern software platform, connecting SCADA to ERP software such as SAP doesn’t have to be difficult. In this webinar, join experts from Inductive Automation, Sepasoft, and Grantek to find out why Ignition is an effective solution for connecting operational and business systems, and how a new module makes the process smoother than ever.
55 min video
Leveraging Data from More Than 20 Applications Built on Ignition
JMA has built more than 20 applications on top of the Ignition platform, and plans to create even more in the future. The flexibility of Ignition allows JMA to quickly design whatever it needs. The software also gives JMA numerous options when it comes to absorbing data and analyzing it. The result has been a rise in productivity.
4 min video
Design Like a Pro: Basics of Building Mobile-Responsive HMIs
Join us for the latest Design Like a Pro webinar, where software engineering and design experts from Inductive Automation will share the fundamental concepts you’ll need to design HMIs that function well on any screen size.
Get Your ERP & Operational Data Working Together
With a modern software platform, connecting SCADA to ERP software such as SAP doesn’t have to be difficult. In this webinar, join experts from Inductive Automation, Sepasoft, and Grantek to find out why Ignition is an effective solution for connecting operational and business systems, and how a new module makes the process smoother than ever.
55 min video
The Path to a Pain-Free Control System Upgrade
To upgrade or not to upgrade: for many industrial organizations, that is the question. Operating-system issues, security concerns, and maintenance costs all provide strong motivations for upgrading SCADA or ICS systems, yet the associated expenses and headaches cause many companies to hesitate. In this webinar, Travis Cox from Inductive Automation and a panel of experienced industrial professionals will discuss how to bring your system up to date in a way that maximizes your investment and minimizes losses.
59 min video
Mobility Meets Manufacturing
Don Pearson from Inductive Automation and a panel of industrial professionals will discuss mobile trends and specific, real-world use cases of industrial organizations that have successfully incorporated mobile technologies into their processes.
61 min video
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.
56 min video
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