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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Secure Your Ignition the Easy Way – Setting up Ignition with a Reverse Proxy

In this session, learn how to leverage free and open source reverse proxy software to secure your Ignition install with auto-renewing SSL certificates.

Use Docker & DevOps to Dominate Deployment

Deploying new features, bug fixes, and updates is necessary for every production SCADA/MES installation and without an established deployment cycle, modifications to any system pose significant risk. In this session, you’ll see Git source control, Docker containerization, and DevOps methodologies that you can use to effectively develop and deploy projects with Ignition. Apply standard Dev/Test/Stage/Prod practices from the software industry to support multiple developers, reduce unplanned downtime, and realize a more efficient process for developing and deploying Ignition projects.

SCADA Client Management System

As SCADA systems grow and take advantage of Ignition’s unlimited client licensing model, managing these numerous clients has become more and more challenging. Join Piedmont Automation as they discuss and detail their SCADA Client Manager that allows IT & Maintenance personnel to quickly deploy clients anywhere in the facility, from management offices to the KPI monitors mounted high in the air in production areas.

Enterprise Digital Transformation Journey—One Year Later

Dana Inc., a global leader in transportation, and Roeslein & Associates Inc., an Ignition Premier Integrator, won a Firebrand Award for their amazing work in 2018 when they partnered together to embark on Dana's enterprise-wide digital transformation journey. In this insightful session, you'll hear from both Roeslein and Dana about the challenges and triumphs of the first year of their journey together. Discussions will include the successful decisions as well as decisions that they would change if they could do it all over again. You'll learn from their first-hand experiences about what technology and cultural changes are needed to ensure that your own enterprise digital transformation journey is successful.

Integrator Panel: How to Lead With Ignition

At this panel discussion, you’ll hear some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators talk about how they are finding success for their companies and customers by leading with Ignition. In this session, our expert panel of integrators will discuss tips for how to win more projects with Ignition, keep up with technology trends, and open new opportunities for future development.

Firebrand Awards Panel (2018)

At the end of each conference, the Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to the most outstanding real-world Ignition projects featured in our yearly Discovery Gallery project showcase. Join us to celebrate the creative spirit of the Ignition community as we honor this year’s Firebrand Award winners and hear their stories of struggle, innovation, and triumph in a fun and informative panel discussion led by Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer, Don Pearson.

Top 6 Tips for Delivering a Successful MES Project

A successful MES project has the potential to deliver huge efficiency improvements that can boost production and save money. In this session, you'll hear specific strategies you can put into action right now to improve your MES implementations. Make your next MES project a success with great tips about how to plan your project, map your process, fully leveraging actionable information, and designing a great UX for OEE projects.

Configuring Devices in Ignition Using UDTs and the EAM

Configuring devices with user-defined type (UDT) tags on servers at multiple production sites can be challenging; in this session you'll learn how to do it in Ignition. The Ignition Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) is a powerful management tool that gives you the ability to manage not only servers and project objects but devices across the enterprise. Join Lynn Martineau of Autoliv to see how he's using centralized tools to configure devices, reducing the need to access multiple Ignition Gateways and Designers and simplifying training and support.