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Which Ignition Edition Is Right For Your System?
Inductive Automation offers multiple editions of Ignition created for specific use cases. See what differentiates Ignition, Ignition Edge, Ignition Cloud Edition, and Ignition Maker Edition, as well as examples that highlight where each edition excels and situations they are not designed for.
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Phased Deployment Methods
By leveraging common design patterns and standardized templates, teams can accelerate deployments while maintaining consistency across each environment.
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Ignition + AWS Guide: Edge-to-Cloud Resiliency & Disaster Recovery
Ignition supports resilient architectures with features such as built-in redundancy and failover, store-and-forward to maintain data integrity, and support for edge computing and MQTT to enable decentralized processing and reduce reliance on central servers.
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How To Choose a System Integrator
As modern organizations look to improve operations with new forms of automation, one question always comes up first: “Where do I start?” Odds are, these days you need an integrator. As experts in connecting OT and IT, control system integrators bridge the gap between the plant floor and information technology. Take a tour of Inductive Automation’s Find an Integrator tool to find which integrator can help you achieve your goals.
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Smart Solutions, Real Results: Discover Integrators’ Best Ignition Projects
In this webinar, we’ll show you real-world projects that improve efficiency, enhance data management, increase system reliability, elevate the user experience, and more. Join us to see what’s possible when innovative thinkers like you meet Ignition’s unlimited platform!
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Food and Beverage
Say Yes To Any Automation Project With Ignition
At Inductive Automation, integrators and end users frequently tell us how they’ve completed projects with Ignition that would have been impossible or impractical with any other industrial automation software. In this webinar, experienced integrators will share some of these true stories with you. As you’ll see, adding Ignition to your toolset can take you from having to say “sorry, we can’t” to declaring “yes, we can!”
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License To Thrive: Bypass Project Roadblocks With Unlimited Licensing
Join us for this webinar to see what a huge difference Ignition’s unlimited licensing model can make in your future projects!
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Food and Beverage
Unleashing ROI And Innovation With Ignition
No matter how you look at ROI, Ignition is the best choice for HMI, SCADA, and Digital Transformation software. In this webinar, you’ll find out why that’s true by hearing the experiences of industrial professionals who have worked with Ignition for years.
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Glass Manufacturer Leverages Hybrid Architecture To Deploy Identical Applications At Multiple Sites
Saint-Gobain Glass mobilized 2Gi Technologie and Plantformance to create and deploy Ignition applications in several countries, within a hybrid architecture of local real-time data and shared data in the cloud. These applications enable Saint-Gobain Glass to have identical applications in its plants to accelerate digitalization and to consolidate data at a global level, as well as leverage data locally for immediate remediation plans stored in Microsoft planner.
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Infrastructure Provider Builds Demo Platform To Give Clients Dynamic View Of Solutions
Vertiv, an organization that manufactures components and implements automation solutions for data centers and communication networks, used Ignition to create an internal and external demo platform that encompasses all of their go-to market offers and solutions, incorporating both manufacturing facilities and critical regional offices.
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Oil and Gas
The Making Of World-Class Control Systems
This webinar will be a great opportunity to delve into some amazing projects and get inspiration for your own work. By learning from these examples, you can hone your innovation skills to attain greater success in your controls solutions, improve your business results, and truly make your mark on the industrial automation industry.
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Manufacturing
Iron Foundry Gains Competitive Edge & Increases Efficiency with Innovative Technology
With help from Artek, Ferroloy implemented Ignition to digitally transform their disconnected foundry through efficient data collection and analysis while integrating the new system with existing software and specialized machinery.
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Global Collaboration Helps Steel Manufacturer Implement Centralized Control Room
The main purpose of Uddeholm, a Voestalpine company, is to manufacture high-quality industrial steel tools, applying best practices for an efficient use of resources and a sustainable development. This strategy has led Uddeholm to become the world’s leading steel tool manufacturer with more than 350 years of innovation and presence in more than 90 countries.
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Glass Company Increases Profitability With True-North Metrics
HMI Glass was facing numerous challenges impacting profitability, leading to reduced earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) since 2018. The scope of the project was to utilize intelligent manufacturing data to implement a lean management model and drive cultural transformation. The success of the project was tied to fees based on performance and utilized a gainshare model based on a cost of poor-quality improvement.
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Manufacturing
Defying Ordinary: A Deep Dive Into Unique Automation Projects
Every year, Inductive Automation shines a spotlight on modern marvels in industrial automation at the Discover Gallery, but there’s a whole lot more to these projects than we could ever capture in the showcase. In light of that, we’re diving deeper into some of this year’s most novel Ignition projects.
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Manufacturing
Educating the Next Generation of Manufacturing Engineers
Jake Hall, also known as the Manufacturing Millennial joins David Grussenmeyer for a great discussion on the outlook on education within the manufacturing industry. They dive in and discuss the effects of the OT and IT convergence in manufacturing, the new generation of manufacturing engineers, and how education is evolving to meet today’s manufacturing needs. Jake and David also talk about the challenges of education and how the pandemic revealed opportunities in manufacturing.
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