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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Castle & Key implemented Ignition at their facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the help of Gray AES to replace an outdated FactoryTalk system.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
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!”
60 min video
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!
56 min video
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
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.
9 min video
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.
10 min video
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.
59 min video
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.
11 min video
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.
5 min video
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.
10 min video
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.
48 min video
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.
41 min episode
Improved Monitoring of Power Generators Nationwide
Brown Engineers developed a USA-branded solution specific to their needs for monitoring a nationwide fleet of generators for high-reliability customers.
8 min video
Industry Leader Reduces Paper, Gets Faster Reporting and Better Productivity
This project was created by FG Automação Industrial for Saint-Gobain, a world leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. To better attend to their customers' needs, FG Automação Industrial used Ignition Perspective and Sepasoft's OEE Downtime modules. By combining these modules, they were able to transform the Saint-Gobain tube production management process into a robust, user-friendly, dynamic, reliable, and 100% digital interface.
7 min video
Improvements Beyond Expectations for Global Leader in Beauty & Wellness
This project was developed for a greenfield site, built for the manufacturing of beauty and wellness products. The customer had outgrown their original site and had to expand their production to meet demand. The new site had to provide a solution with improved visibility on their systems, services, and manufacturing processes, and provide consistency in the quality of their manufacturing procedures.
7 min video
Global Automotive Machinery Company Gets Single Source of Truth in Every Department
Ignition is used to create a SCADA/MES application that replaces a lot of separate Excel sheets and an old Citect SCADA platform. By using Ignition, AT-Automation instead created a single source of truth for every department (production, process engineering, technical service, quality, logistics) within the company.
7 min video
UK’s Leading Leather Manufacturer Has Better Data, Better Results
The project allows Scottish Leather Group to track rawhides through an intake fridge system, and categorizes these hides based on their food grade, weight, gender, origin and status to intelligently fill the fridge rails. An outfeed selection algorithm helps operators choose the best available hides for a given fridge outfeed job (i.e. lime processing, recirc, etc.).
10 min video
Build-A-Thon
The 2021 Build-a-Thon was the first ever to feature members of the Ignition community battling it out head-to-head. This year, we invited all of Inductive Automation’s Premier Integrators to apply for a chance to wear the Build-a-Thon blazer, and after three rounds of challenges, the final two integrators, DMC and Roeslein & Associates, will face off at the conference.
61 min video
The Forces Behind the Digital Transformation
Jeff Winter from Microsoft joins Don Pearson for an interesting discussion on the forces that drive Digital Transformation. They will dive in and discuss the forces of consumer demand and government investment into manufacturing. Jeff and Don will also talk about the power of innovation, the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence, and how to harness the never ending stream of data. You may access the video version of the podcast here.
43 min episode
The Business Value of Digital Transformation
Remus Pop from Riveron chats with Don Pearson about the meaning of Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, and IIoT and the business value of the technologies developed for these initiatives. They further discuss the challenges and obstacles of implementation, how companies are handling global disruptions, and the outlook of our industry and the agents of change leading the charge.
34 min episode
Two Companies Assist University with Engineering Education
For engineering students, experience with real-world tools can be very beneficial.
5 min read
Improved Efficiency and Reporting for Large Manufacturer
Atlas Copco is a global company based in Stockholm, Sweden, with 40,000 employees worldwide.
5 min read
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: Women in Automation Today
Despite many recent technological innovations, certain aspects of the manufacturing industry are slow to change. Case in point: Women are still underrepresented in manufacturing. What kinds of obstacles do women face as they pursue a career in this field? How can industrial organizations be more effective in recruiting, retaining, and promoting women? What will tomorrow’s manufacturing landscape look like? Don’t miss this Ignition Community Live webinar, where an all-female panel of experienced automation professionals will discuss these and other important questions that everyone in our field needs to think about.
58 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