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customer project Automotive

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

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webinar Agriculture

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

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icc | 2021 International Session  |  Agriculture

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

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icc | 2021 International Session  |  Agriculture

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

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icc | 2021 Build-a-Thon  |  Aerospace

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

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icc | 2021 Panel  |  Aerospace

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

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icc | 2021 Community Session  |  Automotive

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

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icc | 2021 Community Session  |  Automotive

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

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icc | 2021 Community Session  |  Aerospace

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

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icc | 2021 Community Session  |  Automotive

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

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icc | 2021 Community Session  |  Aerospace

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

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case study Automotive

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

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icc | 2020 Community Session  |  Automotive

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.

32 min video

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icc | 2020 Community Session  |  Aerospace

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.

34 min video

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icc | 2020 Community Session  |  Automotive

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.

20 min video

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customer project Automotive

Greater Mobility for Large Battery Manufacturer in Italy

Quality assurance, progress reports, and product documentation were done through paperwork. The standard MES solution had a hard time connecting to equipment such as simple scales. It was also difficult to implement needed customizations. This all led to more time needed for data entry, delayed communication of issues, delayed solutions, and a lot of hardware to be maintained by the IT department.

6 min video

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customer project Automotive

New SCADA/MES For Supplier to Leading Automakers

At Veoneer’s facility in Goleta, California, the company manufactures advanced night-vision systems for the world’s leading automakers. For supervisory control and traceability, Veoneer used an internally built system in Goleta. Due to a change in the corporation’s structure, this solution was no longer viable and Flexware was asked to develop a solution that replaced and enhanced the previous solution’s functionality with the Ignition platform.  Prior to this engagement, Flexware developed a custom MES solution for a different Veoneer facility with the Ignition platform, and word traveled around the organization about how powerful the software is. It was an easy decision to continue the use of Ignition at the Goleta facility.

8 min video

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case study Automotive

Numerous Tools on One Platform Save Time and Money

Madison-Kipp Corporation wanted to bring down costs and raise efficiency, so it implemented Ignition in numerous areas within its production facilities.

5 min video

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icc | 2019 Community Session  |  Automotive

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.

52 min video

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icc | 2018 Panel  |  Aerospace

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.

61 min video

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icc | 2018 Community Session  |  Aerospace

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.

55 min video

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icc | 2018 Community Session  |  Aerospace

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.

55 min video

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icc | 2018 Community Session  |  Automotive

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.

55 min video

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customer project Automotive

Improving Productivity for Dana Incorporated

This project was developed to provide real-time statistical analysis and visualization of machine data to allow for better and faster decision-making concerning performance and efficiencies. The project also needed to be flexible enough to adapt to future needs of the client company, Dana Incorporated.

5 min video

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icc | 2017 Community Session  |  Automotive

Firebrand Awards ICC 2017

At the conclusion of the conference, Ignition Firebrand Awards will be given for this year's most outstanding Discover Gallery projects. The award recipients will gather for a lively and inspiring panel discussion about how their projects came about, what it took to achieve success, their future plans for Ignition, and more. Their stories could help you build your next great Ignition project!

55 min video

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icc | 2017 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: Positioning Your Integration Business for Success

At this panel discussion, some of the leading system integrators in the Ignition community will talk about many aspects of success for integrators today, including the Integrator Program, strategies for business growth, technology trends, and how Ignition helps transform challenges into opportunities.

64 min video

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customer project Automotive

Beyond Customer Expectations for a Fraction of the Typical Cost

This was a SCADA/HMI pilot project for automated statistical process control (SPC) with in-line data capture of incoming and outgoing quality of vehicle-door and hood-gap measurements using wireless digital calipers. The customer — a large automobile manufacturer — was seeking a solution that would help it improve the manual process of measuring door and hood gaps by team members on a moving assembly line.

7 min video

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icc | 2016 Community Session  |  Aerospace

ICC 2016 Firebrand Awards

The Ignition community is made up of some of the most forward-thinking industrial professionals around. In this closing session of the conference, we will celebrate their spirit of innovation by honoring the best projects from the Discover Gallery with Ignition Firebrand Awards. At this rousing and informative panel discussion, hear from the people behind these award-winning projects as they discuss how they did it and what they are doing next with Ignition.

61 min video

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icc | 2016 Community Session  |  Agriculture

Achieving Regulatory Compliance with Ignition

Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.

61 min video

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icc | 2016 Panel  |  Agriculture

Integrator Panel: New Technologies & Trends

Join a panel of the leading integrators of Ignition as they discuss the newest technologies and trends that are shaping the industry. Learn from their first-hand experience and get your questions answered about how to leverage Ignition to meet the technology and development demands of the ever-changing industrial sector.

68 min video

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icc | 2015 Community Session  |  Aerospace

Integrator Sales Tips: Marketing Ignition

Ignition is different than any other SCADA software on the market; in this session, you'll get tips on how to highlight the unique features of Ignition to make it more effective.

57 min video

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icc | 2015 Community Session  |  Automotive

Developing with the Ignition Module SDK

The learning curve for the Module SDK is steep, even for experienced programmers who are otherwise new to Java. Flatten the curve with a discussion of serialization, Client-to-Gateway RPC, component subclassing, the Java/Jython interface, trial enforcement, and more.

55 min video

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icc | 2015 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: Meeting Today's Biggest Challenges

63 min video

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icc | 2015 Panel  |  Aerospace

Closing Panel (2015)

The Ignition community around the world grows one success at a time. Hear industrial professionals talk about how they’ve used Ignition to make a positive impact on their organizations.

61 min video

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icc | 2015 Community Session  |  Aerospace

Firebrand Awards Ceremony (2015)

The conference concludes with the presentation of the 2015 Ignition Firebrand Awards, which honor the teams behind the most successful and innovative projects showcased in the Discovery Gallery.

28 min video

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icc | 2014 Community Session  |  Automotive

Sales Tips: Ignition in 10 Minutes

How to make a compelling 10 minute pitch for Ignition.

46 min video

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icc | 2014 Community Session  |  Aerospace

Project Management Tips for Successful Ignition MES Implementations

In this session, Coope - a certified Project Management Professional - will discuss his experiences and recommendations covering project management, appropriate software development models and numerous tips for implementing successful Ignition-based MES solutions. Trimax Systems is a Certified Premier Systems Integrator with Inductive Automation and was the first company to become Ignition MES Certified.

44 min video

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icc | 2014 Panel  |  Aerospace

Closing Panel (2014)

See the closing panel from the Ignition Community Conference 2014.

60 min video

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icc | 2014 Community Session  |  Automotive

MES Module Made Cloud-Friendly

Harrison – an expert in MES integration – explains how Roeslein & Associates’ new NowFlection mobile app make Ignition's MES information available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn how to use OEE tags to push MES data from the plant floor to the cloud, and how to utilize the NowFlection app to pull data back down.

32 min video

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icc | 2013 Community Session  |  Automotive

Successfully Completing OEE Projects

Watch this Inductive Automation session from ICC 2013.

26 min video

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icc | 2013 Community Session  |  Automotive

MES: Industry Standards, Architectural Complexity

Watch this ICC Community session from ICC 2013.

31 min video

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