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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Castle & Key implemented Ignition at their facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the help of Gray AES to replace an outdated FactoryTalk system.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
Phased Deployment Methods
By leveraging common design patterns and standardized templates, teams can accelerate deployments while maintaining consistency across each environment.
1 min read
Tomorrow's Engineers Cook Up A Fast-Food Application: Lessons From A Student Competition
Learn how to structure a working project with ordering interfaces, inventory management, alarming, navigation, and more, and see development techniques, best practices, and clever design tricks that you can apply to your own Ignition projects.
58 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
Design Like A Pro: 25+ Hidden Gems That Make Your Project Shine
Join us as two of Inductive Automation’s Ignition experts share insider tips and tricks for building projects more efficiently, working with containers, and tapping into a wealth of knowledge and resources from Ignition’s global community.
58 min video
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
Going ‘All-In’ With Ignition: Insights From Leading Integrators
In this webinar, a panel of leading integrators will delve into their journey with Ignition — from first learning about it to making it their application-building platform of choice — and how this journey has helped their teams reach new heights of success.
57 min video
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.
5 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
Teaming Up To Enable Digital Transformation & Unified Namespace
This webinar will highlight the benefits of using all partners within the Inductive Automation ecosystem to achieve seamless digitalization and a Unified Namespace (UNS) with reduced complexity and time.
60 min video
How Inductive Automation Uses Ignition
Here at Inductive Automation, we have found plenty of everyday uses for Ignition because it allows us to create customized tools that generate tremendous value. Discover a few of the ways we leverage our own software platform.
17 min video
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
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
Integrating Ignition with Exciting Peripherals
Ignition is based on open standards, is deployable anywhere, provides data to anyone, and can integrate with virtually any system or device. This allows you to leverage best-in-class technology with seamless integration to Ignition. Perspective and the native iOS and Android application is a perfect example of this. Ignition enables people to extend their applications to a phone or tablet by leveraging the camera, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth LE, and other mobile tools. In this session, you’ll get some exciting use cases and live demos featuring one exciting OT peripheral and one very cool guest appearance you won’t want to miss!
45 min video
Architecting Success With Scalable System Design
Learn about common Ignition architectures, how to customize architectures, and the Ignition Architecture Builder, a powerful resource with tools that help you create, share, and track your architectures in a single project. Additionally, we will discuss Ignition's capabilities beyond traditional SCADA architectures, showcasing its ability to accommodate unique applications with third-party modules, database services, and more.
55 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
Edge-To-Cloud Architecture Acquires Real-Time Data From Remote Oil & Gas Facilities
Automation Solutions Ecuador (ASE) developed a cloud-based solution for Smart Energy Applications that enables real-time monitoring, data acquisition, and reporting for Gas-to-Grid (G2G) systems located in remote oil & gas facilities in the Amazon. Smart Energy provides Gas to Grid in a Box (G2G_B) solutions to produce energy using the gas associated with the crude oil extraction process. The G2G_B system uses gas without treatment to reduce carbon footprint. It comprises a generation unit (Waukesha), a control and synchronism unit (Woodward Easygen), and a load shedding unit (Multilin). The project developed by ASE was crucial for Smart Energy to get real-time and historical data of electrical and mechanical parameters, KPIs, and automatic reporting of technical, financial, and environmental results. This allowed Smart Energy headquarters to assess the impact of its solutions. Additionally, the project allowed the solution to be maintained with OpEx instead of CapEx.
5 min video
Power Company Consolidates Diverse Assets With Ignition & Unified Namespace
Dautom successfully addressed the challenge of consolidating diverse power generation assets across multiple geographical areas. By leveraging Ignition as an IIoT platform, implementing Factory Compass 4.0, and the Unified Namespace (UNS) to standardize data models, they achieved operational excellence, resulting in enhanced interoperability and scalability.
10 min video
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
Electric Utility Expands Ignition System To Oversee Entire Transmission & Distribution Infrastructure
Northern Wasco County People’s Utility District (NWCPUD) had an existing Ignition installation with several projects built by OS Engineering for reporting meter data and operating two hydroelectric power generation projects. To complete their SCADA system, OS Engineering was selected to expand this Ignition installation to include monitoring for over 80 Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) across nine substations. NWCPUD wanted a single SCADA application to oversee all aspects of their transmission and distribution infrastructure, including KPIs and real-time data, along with reporting, alarming, and trending to aid in day-to-day operations.
10 min video
Cloud-Based Control System Delivering Cost-Effective Solutions
Environmental Operating Solutions Inc. (EOSi) designed a reliable, cost-effective control system capable of being deployed quickly for both pilot and long-term projects with a minimal site footprint and impact to operations. Additionally, EOSi aimed to create a user-friendly interface accessible by remote and local personnel.
9 min video
Configurable MES Solution Rapidly Delivers OEE Improvement For Cable Manufacturer
In order to gain more insight into how to optimize line performance, Belden decided to partner with Flexware and utilize their SparkMES™ to rapidly capture and visualize key OEE metrics. This project returned significant ROI for Belden.
11 min video
Island Water Utility Ensures Uninterrupted Service, Improves Compatibility & Scalability
Barbados Water Authority (BWA) implemented a comprehensive SCADA system using Ignition to monitor and manage 55 drinking water stations, nine wastewater stations, and two treatment plants. The project aimed to ensure the provision of uninterrupted and high-quality services while addressing operating system compatibility, scalability, and network issues. Aquatec-Automation designed the SCADA system using the Vision Module for desktop and the Perspective Module for the mobile application.
9 min video
Standardized Interface & Hardware Allow Oil & Gas Company To Rapidly Onboard New Facilities
Edge Controls combined the flexibility of Opto 22 edge devices to standardize field equipment configuration and commissioning with Ignition 8.1, Chariot MQTT Broker, and Perspective, utilizing these standards to rapidly onboard new facilities and provide users with new workflows with a fully mobile-responsive card-based user interface, all while lowering overall costs.
9 min video
Build-A-Thon
Behold, another Build-a-Thon is upon us, complete with all the intrigue, feats of daring design, unexpected surprises, and singing that usually accompany such a monumental event. This year, teams from two top integration companies will battle to see who can design the best Ignition project. Don't miss all the excitement of witnessing the crowning of a new Build-a-Thon champion live at this educational, one-of-a-kind competitive SCADA event!
100 min video