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MES Solution Delivers Traceability & Flexibility To Juice Concentrate Manufacturer’s New Facility
In 2022, Döhler South Africa realized they were reaching capacity in their production facility, an impasse that countless growing companies have reached. With the help of INTEG System Integrators, Döhler successfully implemented a massive manufacturing system built in Ignition that balances a staggering amount of functionality with an intuitive interface.
13 min video
Revitalized Bourbon Distillery Merges Tradition With Innovation
Bourbon distillery Castle & Key implemented Ignition at their facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the help of Gray AES to replace an outdated FactoryTalk system. The mobile-responsive Ignition application was Gray AES’ first large-scale project using Perspective, featuring a high-performance HMI, alarming, and reporting, but most importantly access to historical data.
10 min video
Driving Efficiency and Visibility at rPlanet Earth
rPlanet Earth partnered with Kanoa to implement Kanoa MES — a modular, composable manufacturing execution system built specifically for Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform.
7 min read
Clovis Community College Puts Industry 4.0 Into The Hands Of Students & Teachers
Next to the robotic arms, the off-the-shelf miniature smart homes may not appear to be a key part of Clovis Community College’s Automation, Robotics & Mechatronics lab, but this unassuming hardware is providing students and instructors alike with a unique opportunity to build industry-grade automation applications.
12 min video
Automotive Parts Manufacturer Replaces Manual Logging With Fully Automated Ignition System
Murakami’s North American plant produces automotive side-view mirrors, processing plastic into assembled mirrors with included electronics. This project transformed Murakami Injection’s pen-and-paper logging process into a fully Ignition-powered system with automated production, scrap, downtime, and changeover tracking.
9 min video
Design Like a Pro: Exceptional Industry-Specific HMIs
When it comes to designing an HMI, there are a few basic concepts to keep in mind, but no one-size-fits-all solution. Every screen will be unique, with functionality and requirements particular to the needs of its operators, and the more specialized the use, the more critical those differences are. So what makes an HMI excel in an industry setting?
58 min video
Costruisci un Futuro Digitale con Ignition (Italian)
Parti dal basso, utilizzando asset esistenti e un approccio infinitamente scalabile partendo dalle reali esigenze del cliente. In questa sessione esploreremo come Ignition consente di determinare in anticipo il costo dell'infrastruttura digitale e fornisce gli strumenti ideali per System Integrator, OEM, produttori finali e manager della finanza aziendale.
41 min video
Ignition Edge: Capacità di Trasformazione Digitale (Italian)
Grazie alla struttura aperta e distribuita della piattaforma Ignition e di Ignition Edge, è possibile creare architetture estese in grado di migliorare l'efficienza di interi sistemi. Ignition, grazie alla sua infinita scalabilità e alle potenzialità di Ignition Edge, permette di integrare tutti i dispositivi di campo e funge da piattaforma per la realizzazione di reti industriali ad alta efficienza. Le capacità architetturali e la modellazione dei dati attraverso l'utilizzo di DataOps, già a livello di dispositivi Edge, sono elementi che consentono la trasformazione digitale sfruttando appieno le potenzialità del Cloud, della moderna comunicazione e delle tecniche di elaborazione dati.
33 min video
Ignition Build-A-Thon: Vertech vs. Flexware
Travis, Kevin, and Kent are back for an all-new and evolved Build-a-Thon! This time, instead of keeping the glory all for themselves, Travis and Kevin will each be coaching a new competitor from two of the top integration companies in the Ignition community, Vertech and Flexware, to compete for the Build-a-Thon belt. Join us at this year’s jam-packed, live-streamed competition for bigger fun, bigger laughs, and bigger builds as the competitors build “next-gen” versions of an HMI and dashboard, using their own newly developed Ignition Exchange resource.
74 min video
Integrator Panel: Which New Technologies are Fads or the Future
During this panel discussion, you'll hear the leaders of some of the Ignition community's most successful integration companies discuss new technologies and innovations that are evolving the industry. Ideas and terms like IIoT and the cloud once seemed foreign but are now increasingly commonplace within the industrial sphere. What new trends and innovations will prove to be more than just buzzwords, but actual mainstays key to a company’s future success? How are automation professionals responding to these technologies? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what actually adds value within the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.
59 min video
Supporting Worldwide Digital Transformation with Ignition in the Cloud
Ignition is capable of more than just SCADA; it can support digital transformation by offering the possibility to create parametric services in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. HTC uses Perspective, the WebDev Module, and REST APIs on a cloud platform to help their international customers complete their digital transformation journeys. In this session, HTC will illustrate the architecture they use and their customers' results by using a scalable, secure, mobile, geographically distributed system that enables services like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Ignition back-end and front-end architectures, gateway networks, high availability, Ignition Edge, and MQTT will be addressed in this session.
31 min video
OMG APIs - How and Why You Should Integrate with Ignition Using APIs
In this session, you'll see various use cases that integrate Ignition with APIs to enrich applications and solve real-world problems such as alerting for location tracking, weather monitoring, integrating with a firewall — and something fun! You'll also learn through demonstrations about using authentication with API keys.
28 min video
Collaborating on Digital Transformation for Enterprise Scale!
A panel of longtime Ignition users and integrators discuss the challenges and successes of tackling Ignition deployments at an enterprise scale. Learn about how collaboration with other integrators can unlock opportunities to take on global projects. We will discuss what it's like to have three to four different companies working together to complete a project and how to make sure the customer's needs are always front and center.
29 min video
Creating Perspective Graphics Using Inkscape
This session will offer a quick introduction to the Inkscape vector design program and a hands-on demonstration of how to use Inkscape to create SVG files, import them into Perspective, and animate them in Ignition.
31 min video
Top 7 UI Design Tips in Perspective
Users crave a UI experience that is intuitive, efficient, memorable, and visually pleasing. Unfortunately, industrial automation projects can be 100% functional and still miss the mark because of poor design. Good UI standards improve user experience and function, reduce training time, and help ensure long-term use of the system. In this session, you'll hear specific UI strategies that you can use right now to improve your applications in Perspective. Slash the learning curve on beautiful interface design with straightforward tips from a developer's point of view.
29 min video
Automotive Supplier Moves Faster with New SCADA/MES
Veoneer, a leading global supplier for the automotive industry, chose Ignition to quickly build a new SCADA & MES solution. Discover the power of Ignition SCADA in automotive industry control systems.
5 min video