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The Purdue Model And Ignition
In the automation world, the Purdue Model (also known as the Purdue reference model, Purdue network model, ISA 95, or the Automation Pyramid) is a well-known architectural framework for industrial control systems (ICS).
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Water Infrastructure Company Replaces Point-To-Point VPN With MQTT
Goodnight Midstream chose Ignition because it could fulfill several requirements: data mining and business intelligence work on the system backend; powerful Linux-based edge deployments; easy upgrades that could be performed by administrative staff; location data driven by an external database; and template support.
8 min video
What Happened At ICC 2024?
Take a look back at some of the amazing things that happened at ICC 2024, including the groundbreaking Ignition 8.3 reveal, remarkable community sessions, exciting Build-a-Thon, and much more — including a look ahead at ICC 2025.
2 min video
UNS: Unified Namespace
Digital Transformation is all about data, and companies will only achieve this goal if they manage their data differently than in the past. A Unified Namespace (UNS) is the architectural foundation of successful Digital Transformation initiatives because it enables you to make data accessible from your entire enterprise to a single database.
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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.
54 min video
Water Utility Implements Ignition System to Improve Efficiency, Compliance, and Reporting
California American Water found that the SCADA system at its Monterey facility was struggling to maintain the high standards required of a water utility in a “hydraulically challenged” area and chose Flexware to replace its legacy SCADA system with Ignition.
10 min video
Empower Innovation With Unlimited Licensing
Discover the pure magic of an unlimited licensing model in this webinar, with examples of real-world projects that benefited tremendously from having unlimited tags, clients, screens, devices, and more, for one single, astonishingly affordable price.
55 min video
Water Utility Seamlessly Transitions Operating Systems and Speeds Development
Design and develop a new treatment plant HMI to replace WinCC and condense third-party applications into one platform.
9 min video
Lower Costs, More Data for Australian Water Agency with Over 300 Sites
A regional municipal council has implemented the next generation of remote telemetry monitoring and data-driven decision-making. This represents a significant step for the water industry in Australia and provides access to the same data-driven decision-making process used by large water authorities for a fraction of the cost. Since implementing the new system, the council has seen the commencement of significant cost reductions, improved planning, and data-driven decision-making
7 min video
New SCADA and Greater Mobility for Large Water-Management Agency
The evolution of Réseau31 agents' missions requires more and more mobility and access to management and supervision tools using mobile terminals (smartphones, tablets). In addition, the rapid changes in the infrastructure to be monitored and operated (organic changes in the network, maintenance, new contracts, etc.) require frequent changes to the applications.
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Largest Publicly Traded U.S. Water/Wastewater Company Benefits from Enterprise Solution
More organizations are bringing Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) together to assist in business decisions at every level of the organization. American Water teamed up with Flexware Innovation and Automated Controls Concepts (ACC) to create an Ignition ecosystem for SCADA/HMI standards, central data collection and analysis, and integration with other backend systems to support data-driven decision-making across the company. This project was the first and largest-scale standardization of their operational technology systems, and consisted of converting an outdated SCADA system to a modern system that is ISA 101-compliant. Ignition Perspective and Cirrus Link MQTT modules were included as key parts of this solution.
9 min video
Turn Any Panel PC Into an Ignition HMI
The traditional human-machine interface (HMI) is a hardware-and-software solution used to view and track data in all kinds of industrial settings. Lately, supply-chain problems have led to long wait times when ordering traditional HMIs. But don't worry: It’s easy to turn any panel PC into an Ignition HMI solution, and in this webinar we'll show you how!
55 min video
Sustainable SCADA for Your Water Utility
Sales Engineering Manager Kent Melville explains how to build budget-friendly water SCADA systems with five small steps for sustainable SCADA.
46 min video
The Art of Displaying Industrial Data
There is a huge amount of data out there and a great deal of power and insight that we can gain from it — if we can just bring it all into focus and make it more manageable. Many industrial organizations are accomplishing this by building sophisticated HMI, SCADA, and MES projects with the Ignition Perspective Module.
59 min video
Ignition Community Live with Brock Solutions
At Brock Solutions, we are seeing a trend of water authorities looking to replace obsolete, legacy technology that is vulnerable to intrusion and system disruption. These authorities are also looking for ways to leverage industry 4.0 technologies to better service their customers. In this webinar, we are going to discuss what we are seeing in the industry and how we are working with partners like Inductive Automation to help our Water and Wastewater customers implement modern, sustainable, and highly reliable SCADA systems.
33 min video
Securely Monitor Critical Systems From Anywhere
With social-distancing guidelines requiring so many professionals to work remotely, having a solid plan and system in place for remote monitoring is a greater necessity than ever before. There are many factors for industrial organizations to consider: Can we keep it within budget? Which type of system architecture will work best? Will the solution be able to scale? How will we keep it secure?
60 min video
3 Major Reasons Why Water Utilities Choose Ignition
Inductive Automation serves 600-plus water/wastewater facilities around the world and the number keeps growing. As more and more water utilities face the need to upgrade their current aging SCADA systems or install brand-new ones, we teamed up with Water & Wastes Digest to take a closer look at three of the biggest reasons why our customers choose Ignition for their projects.
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Ignition Increases Flexibility, Lowers Costs for Two Water Utilities
Both Mountain Regional Water District and Park City Water have seen significant improvements since switching from their previous SCADA systems to Ignition. MRW saves more than $400,000 per year on energy with greater control from Ignition. Park City saves the equivalent of one full-time employee by using Ignition to automate its reports to a state agency. Both utilities plan to do more with Ignition in the future. And operators are becoming more engaged with the data at both organizations, creating their own screens in Ignition.
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Experience The Updated Ignition Water Treatment Demo App
This demo is a vivid showcase of how Ignition's capabilities, such as real-time control, historical trending, alarming, reporting, and more, can be leveraged to enhance water treatment management and operational efficiency.
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Water And Wastewater: Exploring The Next Generation of Remote Telemetry Monitoring
This session will show how a regional municipal council in Australia has implemented the next generation of remote telemetry monitoring and data-driven decision-making across their wastewater assets for a fraction of the cost of their peers. You’ll hear directly from the Alexandrina Council about how the Ignition system has fundamentally changed how they leverage data to interact with their assets. You will also hear from the technical team from SAGE Automation about implementing multi-device SCADA displays and the practical challenges that MQTT can present.
46 min video
Building a Sustainable and Secure SCADA System
This article offers guidelines for designing a SCADA system for water utilities, with five steps for sustainable SCADA and three security recommendations.
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4 Water Districts Revitalized With Ignition
Four water districts in the U.S. switched their water district SCADA system to Ignition and reap the benefits of state-of-the-art technology.
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Prepare su Aplicación Para Ciberataques (Spanish)
A medida que más dispositivos interactúan con nuestros sistemas, la ciberseguridad comienza a convertirse en una gran preocupación para todos. Descubra cómo Ignition aborda estas amenazas con cifrado, autenticación, certificados de confianza y más.
29 min video
Conozca Acerca de las Herramientas de Historización (Spanish)
Conozca lo que Ignition es capaz de hacer con sus datos históricos. Desde la creación de tendencias sobre la marcha hasta la realización de cálculos complejos en la aplicación, exploramos las capacidades más interesantes del software que puede utilizar en sus aplicaciones.
26 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
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
Practical Smart Water Solutions Capitalizing on the Digital Wave
The demand for reliable, secure, and scalable automation technology is growing exponentially in the water/wastewater industry. Municipalities struggle with “data silos” that limit the flow and availability of information to the various stakeholders and systems, limiting insights that can be gleaned from the operation. At Brock, we are using Ignition to break open these silos and aggregate disparate data sources into a connected central point, providing a complete view from tap to treatment of the water operation.
30 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
Modern SCADA Improves Operations Across Three Water Districts
Read how three counties in Kentucky are using Ignition to leverage MQTT and SCADA for their water treatment plant operations, gaining flexibility and scalability in the process.
5 min video
Cloud-Hosted SCADA with MQTT Gives Water Agency Faster Access to Data
This water utility in Michigan uses the Ignition platform to leverage MQTT and SCADA for water treatment plant monitoring and control.
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3 Ways Ignition is Modernizing Water Utilities
At Inductive Automation, we have always championed water and wastewater utilities, so when a recent hacking attempt in Florida caught our attention, it underlined just how vitally important yet underfunded water utilities are. We strive to provide free resources and affordable solutions for organizations with limited budgets, helping them to create cutting-edge systems without exclusionary pricing. Really, there’s nothing more inspiring to us than stories of how utilities are discovering innovative ways to upgrade their processes while saving money with Ignition.
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Empowering the Edge and the Enterprise
Today we’re joined by John Miller and Daniel Coffelt from The Integration Group of Americas to discuss their real-world projects in water/wastewater and oil & gas. We’ll hear about the challenges they overcame to successfully migrate an outdated SCADA system to an updated IIoT platform. We’ll cover utilizing Ignition in the enterprise and Perspective as the user interface, taking an edge-first approach, and partnering up with OnLogic. We’ll learn how these solutions are improving visibility, flexibility, control, and cost savings for companies that provide vital services.
22 min episode
Utility Replaces Five SCADA Systems with One
The Utility Department at the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, provides water and wastewater services to 150,000 people.
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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
Improving Automation Systems with MQTT (Spanish)
Leveraging the fundamentals of MQTT as an application will bring your existing automation systems up-to-date and even future-proof them. Learn how to get your company and colleagues on board with using the MQTT protocol with persuasive strategies backed up by great information. You’ll learn the importance of embedded security, how to deploy cross-interactions between plant-floor enterprise applications, and more.
28 min video
Developing Well-Designed Projects in Ignition (Spanish)
Learn key user experience/user interface (UX/UI) concepts to improve the interface design of your industrial projects. From the most common design mistakes to avoid, to the newest design methodologies, the team from NV Tecnologías will walk conference-goers through key design principles for HMIs and other interfaces. If you are new to screen design or want a refresher for UX in 2020, this is the perfect session for you.
27 min video
Perspective Exceeds Expectations for Water Facility
APCO provided PLC, HMI, and telemetry upgrades for the Ashley Valley Water Reclamation Facility (AVWRF). The new HMI was built entirely on the Ignition Perspective platform. The HMI implementation included high-performance, mobile-friendly graphics that gave plant personnel the information they needed to do their jobs.
6 min video
Connecting 93 Sites with Maps, Dashboards, and More
This project for Manila Water Company integrates remote local control systems of water-supply and used-water facilities, in different locations, into a centralized SCADA system for remote data gathering, operations monitoring, and enterprise integration. Ignition is connected to 93 sites.
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How Ignition Helps Water Utilities Do More with SCADA
We collected and combined three recent articles from Water & Wastes Digest about integrators and end users who faced very specific challenges and found that Ignition by Inductive Automation provided a perfect solution. Continue reading for stories of quick implementation that cut project deadlines in half, monitoring field operations remotely, and putting real-time data in the hands of an entire team with a server-centric system.
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Build Amazing Projects Incredibly Quickly
Rapid development capabilities have always been a crucial aspect of the Ignition platform and now they are expanding with the Ignition Exchange.
55 min video
Strategies for Optimizing Your Ignition System Performance
Ignition is an amazing platform for building just about anything, and to take full advantage of everything Ignition can do, you need to be smart about how you set it up. Hear the integration experts at Kymera Systems explain how they help optimize existing Ignition systems to run like new. In this session, you'll learn the key strategies and steps for optimizing your Ignition system to reach peak performance.
44 min video
Integrator Panel: The Biggest Trends Shaping the Industry
At this panel discussion, you'll connect with leaders of some of the Ignition community's most innovative integration companies to discuss real trends shaping the industry. With so many buzzwords like Big Data, the cloud, and IIoT circulating, how do you sort out which trends actually matter? How are automation professionals responding to these big ideas? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what's actually impacting the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.
62 min video
Achieving Business Value with Enterprise Deployments
Two years ago, Inductive Automation introduced the Enterprise Integrator program in response to the growing demand from large, complex global organizations to deploy the Ignition platform across multiple sites for multiple purposes. Inductive defines Enterprise Integrators as “very large integrators (250+ engineers) with a global presence and a reputation for executing large corporate initiatives across multiple sites simultaneously. Such integration firms tend to have long-term relationships with their clients.” Brock Solutions, the first integrator to achieve this status, will share their experiences working with enterprise clients leveraging the Ignition platform to achieve measurable business value – beyond HMI and SCADA.
59 min video
New SCADA System Includes 3D Images, Mobility, and More
MR Systems replaced a water plant SCADA system with Ignition SCADA and found it exponentially easier to set up and configure.
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Replacing Five SCADA Systems with One
The Utility Department for Fort Smith, Arkansas, provides water and sewer service to a population of approximately 150,000 within the city limits and in the greater Fort Smith area, either directly from Fort Smith’s systems or indirectly through Fort Smith’s wholesale customers.
9 min video
More Data for State’s First Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Treatment Plant
This was a SCADA project for the first membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plant in the state of Arkansas. The City of Decatur’s plant treats water from municipal, industrial, and commercial sources. The new SCADA system provides the Utilities Department with real-time decision-making data it had never had before.
6 min video
Water/Wastewater: Fast & Easy
Fast industrial application development, staying up and running during rollout with zero-install, and a SCADA software that's easy to learn are critical needs in the water/wastewater industry. Hear water industry professionals tell us why Ignition is providing a new level of openness and better ways of meeting a water utility’s SCADA and business needs. "It’s actually extremely user-friendly." — Julie Halford, City Corporation
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Water/Wastewater & Remote Access
Ignition users in the water & wastewater industry talk about their entire team gaining remote access to their whole facility. "We’re seeing more and more automation and operators' ability to know everything that’s going on very readily.” — Jason Hamlin, Plant Instrumentation Technician, City of Lynchburg Dept. of Water Resources
2 min video
Water/Wastewater & Unlimited Growth
Ignition users in water & wastewater talk about the cost-effective, and unlimited growth in their industry. "Whether it’s new instrumentation, or new reporting capabilities, we are constantly modifying our SCADA system, and before Ignition, we did not have that luxury.” — Nick Graue, Public Utilities Engineer - Park City Water
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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
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
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
Ignition & Water/Wastewater: Doing Less With More
Water/wastewater lives the adage, “Do more with less.” Except Ignition is more: more than SCADA, more than visualization, more than a database front-end. And because it gives users more, they spend less time developing, less time maintaining, and less time securing their system. In this session, you'll hear the story of how a water district in the eastern US is using Ignition as their engine of innovation to drive continual advancements. Learn how they got started, the challenges they overcame, and where Ignition is helping them go, culminating in a sneak peek of the city’s newest cybersecurity project.
54 min video
Two Water Agencies Modernize and Expand Their SCADA Systems
This is a modernization project, as two water agencies moved from old systems to new ones. The two neighboring water agencies have been so pleased with initial results, they are expanding on Ignition to include more of their operations.
6 min video
Water Agency Gets Unified Platform, Better Reporting, and More
H2O Innovation turned BRPUA’s antiquated, incohesive SCADA system into a new state-of-the-art Ignition redundant SCADA system. A key part of the project gave BRPUA a much faster, easier way to submit reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Other reports were automated as well.
6 min video
Improving Efficiency in Filter Process for Water Utility
To increase flow rates at its water treatment plant to meet rising demand, the City of Hot Springs needed to upgrade its antiquated filter controls as well as the filters themselves. Brown Engineers helped the City use its recently installed Ignition SCADA platform to dramatically improve the automatic backwash process, conserve water, improve water quality, and initiate collection of filter data needed to extend regulatory run-time limits.
7 min video
10 Steps to Architecting a Sustainable SCADA System
In this webinar, Kent Melville and Annie Wise from Inductive Automation, and water/wastewater controls professionals Henry Palechek and Jason Hamlin, cover the 10 steps for building a sustainable SCADA system that survives and even thrives using only your operational expenditure budget.
53 min video
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
Ignition and Water/Wastewater: A Decade of Transformation
For Information Systems Supervisor Henry Palechek, this August marks the tenth year of using Inductive Automation software to meet and even exceed the business needs of his water district. A lot has changed in 10 years, and in this session Henry will talk about the ways the district’s Ignition system has evolved to stabilize and simplify their processes and make his job easier.
57 min video
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
The Enterprise Transformation Journey: How Reynolds American Created a World-Class Operation
Projects are hard – transformation takes courage! Few industries face the challenges that the tobacco industry faces. The success Reynolds American achieved over the past 10 years is truly a remarkable story. Join Reynolds American and their integrator Brock Solutions as they tell the story of leading the transformation of the industry and their organization — leveraging leading-edge technology, driving measurable business value, and overcoming barriers that few thought possible to conquer. And the journey is far from over as Ignition is blazing new trails to creating a digitally connected enterprise.
63 min video
Two Customers See Big Improvements, Can Share Data
The Mountain Regional Water District (MRW) and the city of Park City both wanted to improve their HMI/SCADA systems. Each was seeking a more reliable and robust HMI that could provide good data visibility, alarming, and expandability at an affordable cost. Further on in the project, there became a greater need to share data between the two entities and run automated reports.
7 min video