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webinar | October 30, 2025

Event Streams Module: Unlocking Next-Level DataOps in Ignition

Join us for the deepest dive yet into the versatile Event Streams Module, led by Inductive Automation’s very own Chief Technology Evangelist. It’s sure to be the year’s biggest event about event-driven data!

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Exploring Ignition 8.3: A Guided Tour

At this webinar, join us for a wide-ranging overview of Ignition 8.3, which introduces major advancements in data processing efficiency, security, management, and development speed.

60 min video

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webinar Energy

Building Sustainable Industrial Systems And A Better Future

Join control system experts as they share real-world Ignition projects that are helping organizations in various industries make significant progress in their sustainability goals, from reducing paper usage, to effective energy monitoring, lowering carbon footprints, providing cleaner energy, and more.

57 min video

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Level Up Your Knowledge At The 2025 Ignition Community Conference

If you’re thinking about coming to ICC but haven’t quite made up your mind, or if you’re planning to come for the first time and wondering what to expect, get a sneak peek by watching this free webinar. You’ll learn why ICC 2025 on September 16–18, 2025 in Sacramento, CA is a can’t-miss event and a great investment in your future success!

65 min video

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case study Food and Beverage

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

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webinar Food and Beverage

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

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webinar Food and Beverage

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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webinar Energy

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

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webinar Oil and Gas

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

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case study Building Automation

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.

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case study Oil and Gas

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

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webinar Food and Beverage

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

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icc | 2024 IA Session

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

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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

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customer project Manufacturing

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

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customer project Manufacturing

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

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customer project Oil and Gas

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.

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customer project Energy

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.

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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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customer project Water/Wastewater

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

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customer project Water/Wastewater

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

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customer project Mining

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.

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customer project Water/Wastewater

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

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customer project Oil and Gas

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

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icc | 2024 Build-a-Thon

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

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customer project Food and Beverage

Brewery Optimizes Predictive CO2 Model Built in Ignition

Carlton and United Breweries redeveloped an Excel macro- and VBA-driven predictive CO2 model from beer production in Ignition’s Perspective Module. The model shows the predicted amount of liquid CO2 in storage hour by hour over two weeks. The system also monitors key quality and performance indicators in the liquid CO2 system and provides historical capabilities.

8 min video

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icc | 2024 Keynote

Technical Keynote: What's New in Ignition 8.3

Traditionally, we've always held the Technical Keynote or Development Panel on Day Three of the conference, but this year, we've got something big to discuss, so we've moved it up to Day One of our conference content schedule. It's no secret that we've been working on the newest version of Ignition for several years now, and now we're finally able to dive deep into what's coming in Ignition 8.3 and how its powerful new features can lead users to their next big breakthrough idea!

69 min video

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icc | 2024 Keynote

Main Keynote: Exploring the Impact of the Ignition Community

The global community of Ignition users includes large multinational enterprises, government and professional organizations, small companies, and individuals. While each uses the software differently, they all use Ignition to harness the power of automation to accomplish their own mission of making something better. In this keynote, we'll explore how Inductive Automation is supporting the efforts of the Ignition Community and the incredible impact their work has on the future and improving people's lives on a regional and local level.

56 min video

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webinar Oil and Gas

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

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article article

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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webinar Food and Beverage

Unifying OT & IT Through Seamless Interoperability

On August 29, discover how you can bridge the OT/IT gap through open standard technologies and Ignition’s unlimited connections. You’ll learn how Ignition’s OPC UA Module enables you to break down barriers to connectivity, with drivers for nearly any PLC.

54 min video

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Ignition EAM Module: Enterprise Control In One Place

The Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) provides a secure and intuitive way to manage multiple Ignition installations from a single location. While the module is ideal for enterprise systems across vast geographical distances, even companies with a single plant floor can benefit from the EAM’s ability to centrally synchronize projects, monitor performance, as well as automate backup and recovery.

3 min video

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Design Like A Pro: 25+ Tips For Lightning-Fast Development

Join industrial automation experts as they share their top tips and tricks for developing applications amazingly fast (and without compromising quality). You’ll learn about functions in the Ignition designer that shorten a project’s timeline, how to speed up scripting, time-saving techniques for using the Ignition gateway, and a whole lot more.

56 min video

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Ignition Perspective Module: The Plant Floor in Your Pocket

Build mobile-responsive HTML applications that run natively on any screen.

8 min video

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Assembling The Puzzle Pieces Of Digital Transformation

In this webinar, you will see how to build a scalable system for SCADA, MES, IIoT, and Digital Transformation, step by step. Experts from Inductive Automation, Cirrus Link Solutions, Sepasoft, Opto 22, and 4IR Solutions will explain how their respective software and hardware components fit together to create a seamless automation ecosystem within an Ignition Hub and Spoke Architecture.

61 min video

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Integrator Roundtable: Building A Successful & Sustainable Future In Manufacturing

This integrator roundtable will be packed with practical, first-hand advice on sowing the seeds of tomorrow’s success in today’s economy. Some of the best integrators across a wide range of industries will share insights on achieving great leadership, actionable tips to finding incredible talent, and what it really takes to create a company culture that cultivates success. They’ll also discuss building sustainable systems, recent challenges in integration, and emerging technologies in industrial automation. Don’t miss it!

54 min video

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case study Manufacturing

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.

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Accelerating The Journey From Edge To Cloud To Results

In this webinar, find out how an integrated and proven set of technologies can make the edge-to-cloud journey much faster and easier. Industry experts will explain how to drive successful business outcomes through tools like unified namespace (UNS), digital twins, data lakes, KPI visualization frameworks for OEE and other metrics, and a lot more.

60 min video

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Getting Started with Ignition

Getting setup with Ignition is quick and easy. And in this video, we'll guide you through some setup to help you get started.

9 min video

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webinar

Boost PLC & Device Interoperability With New Drivers

On March 28, learn how to remove the limits of what you can connect your system to. You’ll discover how Ignition makes it a breeze to improve PLC connectivity. You’ll get up to speed on the new DNP3, IEC 61850, Mitsubishi, and Micro800 drivers for Ignition. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions related to the drivers or interoperability at large.

60 min video

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article Guide

What Is MES?

Simply put, a MES system is used to monitor and manage work-in-process on the factory floor, covering resource scheduling, production workflows, recipe management, traceability, inventory, quality assurance, document control, and more. A successful implementation of MES software will not only improve efficiency, but make manufacturers into better businesses.

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How Digital Transformation Starts With SCADA

In today's rapidly evolving industrial landscape, we cannot overstate the significance of a robust and modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. SCADA systems are at the heart of operational technology (OT), where we find most of the data needed for Digital Transformation. Ignition SCADA bridges the gap between OT and information technology (IT), facilitating the seamless flow of data essential for monitoring, control, decision-making, and much more.

57 min video

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article Guide  |  Data Center

NERC CIP Best Practices with Inductive Automation and Ignition

This guide addresses best practices for using Ignition and working with software vendors in a CIP-compliant way, with recommendations based on specific CIP standards.

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webinar Water/Wastewater

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

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icc | 2023 Build-a-Thon

Build-A-Thon

The conference is guaranteed to go out with a bang as the Build-a-Thon closes out ICC once again. Join us for the conclusion of the ultimate Ignition challenge, where the final two teams compete for the glory of developing the most elevated Ignition solutions and being crowned Build-a-Thon champions. Who will wear the orange winner’s blazer after the votes are all counted? There’s only one way to find out, so stick around to catch the competitive spirit and enjoy an unforgettable music performance from IA’s Department of Funk that you’ll be humming for weeks!

76 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Technical Keynote

Developing industry-defining software is no easy task, but someone has to do it. Join our Development team as they highlight recent improvements and upgrades, current developments, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the future of Ignition before answering questions directly from the Ignition community.

60 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

From LinkedIn Connections to Community Leaders: The Automation Ladies Experience

What happens when two passionate ladies in industrial automation meet on LinkedIn and decide to create a podcast? Magic. And growth, lots of growth. Dive into the journey of the Automation Ladies podcast and how it has become an engine for both business growth and network expansion. Nikki and Ali will unpack how amplifying your voice online can have real-world business benefits. If you want to grow your customer base, attract top-tier suppliers, or strengthen your community, this talk should have some actionable takeaways on the power of creating an authentic personal brand by sharing your journey with the world.

46 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

An Overview of Ignition’s MongoDB Connector Module

Earlier this year, we introduced a connector module that allows an Ignition Gateway to integrate with MongoDB. This session provides an overview of MongoDB, outlines the connector module's capabilities, and demonstrates how you can most effectively leverage it to elevate the functionality of your existing deployments.

42 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Hitting a Home Run with Ignition

Ignition is not limited to industrial applications alone; its powerful features extend to use cases of all kinds. From its intuitive design features to its robust scripting capabilities, you can harness the full potential of its flexible architecture and rich tool-set to create innovative solutions in non-industrial automation development. Witness this potential firsthand through a baseball scoring and statistics app developed entirely in Perspective, while providing examples of how tags, persistence, scripting, and views can be utilized in a non-industrial setting. Our goal is to inspire others to elevate their lives and hobbies in new creative ways with Ignition.

45 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

The OG Perspective: 10+ Years of Ignition Wisdom and Beyond

In this session, we'll explore more than a decade of experience with Ignition, sharing valuable insights as a long-time member of the Ignition community. We'll take a practical look at how Ignition has evolved and its role in modern manufacturing, including topics like MES, OEE, AI, and more. It's an opportunity to gain practical knowledge and understand the journey from the early days to today's automation landscape.

42 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Rising to the Challenge - Adventures in System Conversion

The folks at Flexware are no strangers to a challenge. When the opportunity to convert a large system over to Ignition arose, they took it head on. Join them in this session where they'll talk about the project and share their lessons learned, talk about custom tools, and describe their thought process.

41 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

Whether you're new to Ignition or just want a refresher, this session is made for all. The Inductive Automation Training team covers all the basic knowledge and fundamental features you need to get started with Ignition.

45 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Integrator Panel

Which new innovations will prove vital for future success and which flash-in-the-pan trends are destined to be forgotten by ICC 2024? During this panel discussion, some of the Ignition community's most successful integration professionals share how they are responding to emerging technologies and techniques that are driving the evolution of the automation landscape.

44 min video

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article Guide

Using Keycloak with Ignition

Keycloak is an open-source Identity and Access Management solution for adding authentication to applications or services. With Ignition, Keycloak functions as an Identity Provider to authenticate users and define roles to access client/session views.

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Tyson’s Smart Factory Journey

This session provides an overview of how Tyson has standardized operations with Ignition as a SCADA platform, highlighting and detailing how consistent data and dashboards allow for faster implementations. The talk will also include best practices that Tyson has developed, and will identify some of the key integrations that have helped simplify and streamline data collection processes.

28 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Don’t Get Lost in the Cloud: Tips & Tricks for Successful Ignition Deployment and Management

With the release of Cloud Edition, it's never been easier to get Ignition running in the cloud. But are you ready for it? From security concerns to misconfigurations, there are plenty of pitfalls to stumble upon when managing applications in the cloud. But fear not, as help is on the way. Join the experts from 4IR in this session where they'll provide helpful tips and tricks for deploying and managing Ignition in the cloud.

45 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Elevate Your OT Data Securely to the Cloud

Ignition Cloud Edition! Awesome! But wait… How can I possibly connect my PLCs or I/O systems to the cloud? Won’t that jeopardize them? And require heavy IT involvement? What’s the payoff? In this session, we’ll discuss how to use Ignition Edge and Ignition Cloud Edition together to quickly create scalable, high-performance, cybersecure architectures for democratizing your OT system’s data. Whether in brownfield or greenfield environments, you’ll unlock the power of edge-to-cloud hybrid architectures that are cost-effective, easy to manage, cybersecure, and deliver more value to your organization.

45 min video

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What Is The Ignition Effect?

"The Ignition Effect” is not just about technology, but how Ignition creates a ripple effect that reshapes systems and sparks solutions. This series offers a panoramic view of the transformative power of Ignition told by the people who use it every day. Watch these videos to witness the impact Ignition has on its community and explore what it can do for you! 

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icc | 2023 IA Session

We Love Ignition. But Can it REALLY Scale?

Can it REALLY scale? This is a question we have received for the last 10 years. Delve into the realm of enterprise Ignition rollouts with industry insights from the lens of an enterprise integrator. Uncover the strategies and best practices that accelerate the implementation and ensure the long-term sustainability of Ignition. Don’t just believe us – hear it firsthand from a guest appearance with one of our enterprise end users.

42 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Deployment Patterns for Ignition on Kubernetes

Kevin Collins returns to ICC for a demonstration of how to harness the combined power of Ignition and Kubernetes. This session offers an in-depth look at methods for effectively automating deployment, scaling, and managing containerized Ignition applications.

59 min video

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webinar Data Center

Data Centers: How DCIM Improves Your Daily Operations

In this webinar, experts from Inductive Automation and ATS Global will look at those common requirements and present how an open data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution based on Ignition can help you to comply, and maybe even change the public opinion about Data Centers in the long term. We’ll also present a new Ignition demo for data centers.

46 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Separating Design From Development - Using Design Tools with Ignition

Building screens in Ignition is a breeze, but did you know you can design screens even faster by mocking them up using a design tool? Join us for this session as we talk about the benefits of moving the design process outside of a development platform. We'll cover topics such as design vs. development, UI vs. UX, benefits of using design tools, and an introduction to the design tool Figma.

43 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Ignition Exchange Resource Showcase

Since the Ignition Exchange’s introduction in 2019, members of the Ignition community have contributed hundreds of resources ranging from pre-built templates, tools, and scripts to Ignition-powered retro arcade games — all available for free. Discover the full potential of the Ignition Exchange as we highlight some of its most valuable assets, including a handpicked sampling of the top Exchange resources developed by IA engineers.

41 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Ignition Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics

Ignition offers numerous built-in tools for gathering diagnostic information about the health of your system. This session offers an overview of these tools and explains how our Support Division leverages this information during the troubleshooting process. By the end of this session, fixing problems will feel like shooting code in a barrel.

46 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

Introduction to Automated Testing of Perspective Projects

Learn the most effective ways for leveraging automated testing to safeguard your development-to-production process. This session will start by outlining how the core tenets of testing apply to automated testing, leading directly into best practices for verifying that your Perspective project development is production-ready.

38 min video

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icc | 2023 Panel

Industry Panel: ICC 2023

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icc | 2023 Community Session

I4.0 Accelerator for Driving Edge to Cloud Business Outcomes

Come and learn with Cirrus Link and Snowflake what your data has to say. Snowflake, Inductive Automation & Cirrus Link have partnered to provide Data Cloud Solutions. With Ignition UDTs, MQTT, and Sparkplug, discover how easy it is to leverage Snowflake’s platform to gain derived data insights immediately through native AI tooling. Learn about the impact of the recent partnership of NVIDIA and Snowflake. See how this disrupting technology, in conjunction with Ignition, will elevate and simplify your journey to data insights.

49 min video

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icc | 2023 Community Session

Sepasoft MES Orchestration for Digital Transformation

Manufacturing workflows are required to execute critical processes the right way – every time. The correct tasks must be carried out in the correct order, with the correct materials, approvals, quality checks, and accurate records, especially in regulated industries (e.g., 21 CFR Part 11). This objective, and true Digital Transformation, can only be accomplished with a platform that is integrated, agile, low-code, and feature-rich. Join us for a demonstration of our various MES offerings to showcase Sepasoft’s orchestrated workflow solution.

43 min video

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icc | 2023 IA Session

What's That in the Sky? An Intro to Ignition in the Cloud

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Ignition! There’s enough buzz around deploying Ignition in the cloud, you’d think it would give your system super powers. But does a cloud deployment align with your organization’s grounded, realistic objectives? In this session, we’ll introduce cloud deployment concepts, discuss which architectures and scenarios benefit the most from cloud-based integration, and share real-world Ignition use cases.

46 min video

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icc | 2023 Keynote

Main Keynote: Elevating Automation

Let's kick off the 2023 Ignition Community Conference on a high note. Join Inductive Automation's leadership team as they reflect on the past year, look toward the future, and give you a bird's-eye view of our growing company, ever-evolving industry, and thriving Ignition community. This is ICC, elevated!

98 min video

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webinar

New Possibilities at the Edge

As industrial organizations do more at the edge of the network, important new questions are arising. What is the relationship between edge systems and centralized systems? What can you do at the edge that you couldn’t do before? How can you use the edge with the cloud effectively?

47 min video

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Global Collaboration Helps Steel Manufacturer Implement Centralized Control Room Emily Batiste Fri, 10/27/2023 - 11:46

Project Summary:

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.

To keep fulfilling its purpose, Uddeholm has been developing infrastructure and SCADA projects for its plant located in Hagfors, Sweden. One of these projects was the implementation of a new Heat Treatment Control Room (HTCR). This project aimed to centralize the monitoring and control of all furnaces in the main plant, replace several smaller rooms, increase productivity, optimize performance, and reduce energy and maintenance assurance of long-term growth.

The solution for this project included a scale-out Ignition architecture, Perspective Workstation for visualization, Ignition’s powerful built-in features and ability to be used in a container, and the adoption of a DevOps methodology.

 

Problem:

Uddeholm had many small control rooms to monitor and control the manufacturing processes of different furnaces which heat the steel to manufacture tools. Most of the furnaces were isolated entities mainly monitored and controlled by a local HMI requiring high-cost maintenance and lacking traceability data to make decisions to improve efficiency.

Solution:

Ignition was already being used at the Uddeholm plant. There were 2 stand-alone Ignition gateways running more than 30 projects and 20 database connections between both gateways. They used a database instance for every gateway, each with a different server.

To implement the Heat Treatment Control Room project, it was necessary to standardize how Ignition would be used. First, the Uddeholm plant implemented a scale-out Ignition architecture to maximize the benefits of using one gateway as a backend to connect with field devices and the other gateway as a frontend to run clients and sessions. Also, the database was centralized in just one server. To accomplish the scale-out architecture, it was necessary to migrate projects with their resources from one gateway to another, move device and database connections to the proper gateway, centralize a local user source, use remote tag providers, configure both gateways using best practices, and migrate the data from the different databases to one server.  With this solution, the load was distributed between both gateways, improving performance and requiring just one centralized server for the database instead of two.

The new HTRC required two workstations with five monitors each. Three monitors displayed Ignition process screens. The first screen displayed an overview of furnaces by area with the possibility to select the furnace and provide more detail on the second and third screens. The second screen displayed the graphic representation of the selected furnace with temperature information, the monitor and control of the program (recipe) to use, and information from MES. The third screen displayed trends and alarms of the selected furnace. The other two monitors would display MES programs to run and the XProtect video software to view the furnace selected on camera.

Perspective Workstation was implemented to leverage multi-monitor functionality. One interesting aspect of the project was that the three screens would display the same page at all times, with only the information displayed in the page changing according to the area selected for Screen One and the furnace selected for Screen Two and Three. To accomplish this feature, session custom properties were used to write the number of areas and the number of furnaces, and the view would change the path and the parameter to display the correct area and furnace. Moreover, a feature was created on the navigation bar to assign the area and the operators to work on every workstation. So Workstation One and Two only displays the areas selected. Additionally, an OPC UA connection was made with XProtect Milestone software. The selected furnace was written on a tag for XProtect software that runs an event and displays the camera with the furnace selected on it.

The system monitors and controls more than 40 furnaces, each one with more than 100 tags, so UDTs were created to manage almost 10 different furnace types, standardizing the name of the tags and creating a structure that can fit in dynamic views. Also, named queries were used to have traceability when a furnace program has been started and finished.

Lastly, Uddeholm and Automation Solutions Ecuador worked as a team to bring the HTCR project to life. This could have not been done without using Ignition and the collaborative development feature. For that, the team created a Docker Linux container inside the Uddeholm corporation to allow for ASE’s concurrent development, reducing the time of implementation and associated costs. To apply the deployment best practices, GitLab source was implemented using a DevOps methodology and delivering many benefits to the implementation. A list of issues was created on GitLab to see real-time progress, time invested on every task, track project changes, run deployment tests before implementing new features into the production environment, all of which reduced errors and saved time during implementation.

Results:

For Uddeholm, the implementation of the HTCR project allowed operators to work together in the same room, making it easier to coordinate activities. It also reduced physical space, centralized the monitoring of the furnaces process, centralized data, increased the traceability of furnaces operation, saved money by using one less server, optimized performance, and reduced energy and maintenance.

Using containers and GitLab during deployment and development made the collaborative implementation easier, quicker, and more efficient, diminishing errors on production and having better control of changes during the process. It also lowered the cost of implementation.

The HTCR project also allowed for the implementation of new features such as an overview window with the real distribution of the furnaces and core information of the process for informative purposes. An application in Perspective now connects with energy API Nordpool to gather information on energy expenditures and cost. This feature will be used this year to maximize the furnaces efficiency and decrease the use of excess energy. Another application was developed to emulate a connector to a Kafka open-source-as-consumer to gather the data that will be used later this year.

The HTCR project made a difference in the Uddeholm plant. Having a centralized control room with centralized data made it possible to standardize furnace operation. Collaborative implementation demonstrated that an application could be developed and deployed remotely between one team in Sweden and the other in Ecuador. The HTCR project laid the groundwork for future projects using Ignition thanks to the confidence it provided both Uddeholm and ASE.

Deploy Date: May 2022

Project Scope:

Tags: 500

Screens: 5

Clients: 10

Alarms: 50

Devices used: 50 - PLC Siemens/OPC UA

Architectures used: Scale-Out

Databases used: 1 SQL Server

Historical data logged: 400

 

End User Description
Uddeholm is the world’s leading manufacturer of tool steel for industrial tools. Its experience dates to 1640, providing the best high-quality steel tools. Uddeholm has the technology, know-how, product development, and also the passion to assure that every piece of steel and every step of the process, from raw material to finished product has followed the best production techniques. <p>
<strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.uddeholm.com/" target="_blank">uddeholm.com</a>
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Automation Solutions Ecuador is the leading control system integrator in Ecuadorian industry with 20 years of experience in implementing control systems. It provides hardware and software, technical training, as welll as designing, building, programming, and start-up of information, monitor, control, and MES systems using the best technology and human resources. <p>
<strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://asecuador.com/en/" target="_blank">asecuador.com/en</a>
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  • Screens: 880 screens and 450 popups
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  • Databases used: 2 SQL Databases (System Data and History)
  • Historical data logged: 65,000 historized tags


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The council’s wastewater team had a future vision to leverage the rich data capture and drive analytical tools to enable predictive maintenance for their sites. 

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  • Implement a large wide-area remote telemetry system with data buffering for a fraction of the price of other comparative solutions on the market.
  • Combine multiple SCADA and HMI technologies into a unified Ignition platform.
  • Use a mobile-first design approach that allows data to be accessed anywhere on any device, all developed/tested and commissioned once.
  • Store data from more than 300 sites and provide access to decision-making support tools.
  • Reduce maintenance costs via site visibility, reducing the amount of travel needed.


Solution:

The latest features of Ignition Perspective’s visualization platform were used to provide a flexible project. Taking a mobile-first approach allowed templates to be used across different devices (mobile, tablet, and desktop) without duplicating development effort. This was completed without negatively impacting the desktop environment, which includes full P&ID views using the latest Ignition piping tools.

The project is built around Ignition’s tight integration with MQTT Sparkplug B. It uses Red Lion DA30D units at each site as a common edge device which can communicate to the wide range of PLCs that the council has installed over 15 years. The ease of integration and data backfilling combine for a powerful solution at a fraction of the price of a traditional RTU architecture.

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Results:

The council gained full remote visibility of sites, with multiple external systems integrated into a single centralized SCADA. As a result, operators can access historical data, as well as intelligence (such as event markers) to improve troubleshooting and response times, from whatever location they need. 

SAGE takes a highly collaborative approach when working with software and hardware vendors. The requested features and improvements developed in this process change the industry for the better. Specifically, SAGE worked with the Red Lion team to improve how the MQTT backfilling process works and increase stability. Within Ignition, they were one of the first teams to implement the piping tool in a live system and provided valuable feedback on it and other critical features of Perspective like trending, alarm display, and shelving. 

Introducing new operations personnel to a SCADA system is time-intensive, so 3-5-minute training videos are embedded into the system. These recordings step users through common scenarios typically covered by in-person training sessions, such as simple navigation and color standards, through to complex features like trending. This also allows experienced users to re-familiarize themselves with infrequently used features. Fundamentally, this system supports and provides critical user tools for the operators, ensuring they remain at the center of application development.

The council’s on-call support has vastly improved - previously, any alarm would require travel to the site. Using Ignition’s alarm notification system, alarms are categorized and directed to the appropriate operations group, who can log in through their mobile device or tablet, and address the alarm with the operational intelligence they need. 

Operations now more effectively plan and schedule multi-site works by remotely monitoring site status to ensure a suitable operational state when they arrive at the next site to take samples and measurements.

Prioritizing alarms, reducing travel time, and performance-based maintenance create direct cost savings for the council, allowing funds to be redirected towards expansion plans. It also provides the council with the core infrastructure for analytics and machine learning tools to increase those savings even further.


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Scott: I'm Scott Avis, senior systems engineer, and have been with SAGE Group for 12 years, delivering SCADA and telemetry solutions across a number of industries. SAGE Group is an Australian-based company with more than 600 people across two continents. We are a Premier-Level Integrator with Ignition. We have a presence in every state and territory in Australia and are focused on delivering a smarter future, better world. Alexandrina Council has a population of more than 27,800 residents across more than 1,800 square kilometers and is one of the fastest growing regions of South Australia. The region is a popular tourist destination with more than 800,000 overnight visitors each year. The Council originally had more than 300 remote sites across at least six independent SCADA technologies, with very limited to no remote accessibility. This created an asset environment that was difficult to manage and meant that maintenance teams were constantly traveling in order to collect data and spot-check the status of the district systems.

01:20
Scott: In 2021, SAGE Group began working with the Council to introduce an overarching control system across all their wastewater assets. This project involved Alexandrina Council's implementation of the next generation of remote telemetry monitoring and decision-making in wastewater. This represents a significant step change for the water industry in Australia and provides access to the same data driven decision making processes used by large water authorities for a fraction of the cost. Since implementing the new system, the Council has seen significant cost reductions, improved planning, and better decision-making. So before we take a look at some actual graphics, I'd like to discuss the design philosophy of this project. Initial discussions with the Council revealed their preferences for a highly mobile workforce. With this in mind, SAGE designed faceplates for mobile resolution first. These face plates are common between both the mobile and desktop environments. Everywhere possible, we focus development on faceplate templates, which are dynamically placed on the view interface, regardless of resolution.

02:24
Scott: So we'll start here with the map overview page. This page shows all the sites in the Council district. The pump station overview page provides a high-level status of all pump stations in a township, including pump status and sublevel. From the individual pump station page, Operations receive a more detailed view of site status, including pump operation, sump levels, pump statistics, site control. Both the pump station overview in this detail page are created dynamically based on site information in the system tag database and SQL tables. This is allowed for quick and simple site instancing. SAGE have utilized the new Perspective piping tool to create the P&ID pages operators are familiar with. One of the Council's existing more featureful SCADA installations was deployed across a vacuum pumping system. SAGE system engineers worked with the FLOW-VAC developers to utilize a new rest API service, which enabled replication of the FLOW-VAC SCADA system within the Perspective environment. This has enabled Ignition to fulfill the Council's desire for a single source of monitoring.

03:40
Scott: This implementation will even recognize when a new device is added on the FLOW-VAC side and automatically added to Perspective without any user interaction. In terms of actual graphics, you'll see, we have a graphical map showing asset locations, which can be filtered based on which pump station the vacuum site feeds, which gateway they communicate through. We have also developed a table view showing all sites. This table can be filtered based on any column value. Table rows can be selected to display additional site information, including a trend and statistics, which automatically update based on the trend time period. SAGE has developed a trend saving feature which allows operators to build their own specific trending. These trends can be saved and retrieved at a later date by themselves or another operator based on user credentials and page settings. Operator training is a small part of a project handover, but for new operators and those unable to attend training sessions can often result in a "here's the manual, have a read" approach. To mitigate this issue, we've embedded training videos directly into the SCADA application.

04:50
Scott: This allows any operator to access short and specific training videos on demand. In addition to the new operator training, we also foresee an experienced operator accessing specific videos for SCADA elements they don't often use, such as advanced trending features like multi-plot trends. One of our team members had a stroke of inspiration and developed a dark mode feature. Now every graphic in the system functions in both a light and dark mode. You can see this as I cycle through the graphics. Everything I've mentioned previously works on mobile and tablet environments. Displays automatically scale up and down based on device resolution. This results in a SCADA system which works as well on a mobile device as it does in a multi-monitor operator control room. At its core, Council operations has been significantly improved. They have the data to drive informed decision-making and the ability to push that data into other analytical platforms. They have SCADA access from any location on any device and minimized incident response time through prioritizing of alarm events.

06:03
Scott: This has resulted in a significant reduction in transport costs and operator driving time. SAGE has delivered all this at a fraction of the cost of a traditional RTU wide area communication network, saving the Council money, allowing prioritized spending and benefiting Council residents as their funds can be redirected. Looking forward, the Alexandrina Council is discussing growing the SCADA system by incorporating additional storm water and irrigation sites.

     


     

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    Alexandrina Council is uniquely positioned in the picturesque Southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia, approximately 80km from Adelaide CBD. Alexandrina Council comprises some 182,684 hectares and is one of the fastest-growing regional areas in South Australia – experiencing peri-urban trends while also noted for its high-quality agricultural production (the second largest industry in the region). The Alexandrina vision is about ‘connecting communities’ through regional innovation, a thriving environment, quality of life and wellbeing for all, increasing cultural vitality and activating vibrant spaces.<p>
    <strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.alexandrina.sa.gov.au/" target="_blank"> alexandrina.sa.gov.au</a>
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    Integrator Description
    SAGE Group is a global company with a team of more than 600 people spread across two continents. As an integrated industrial digitalisation services provider, SAGE combines the perfect balance of technology, process, and capability. SAGE Group includes specialist offerings – SAGE Automation, Nukon, Embedded Expertise and Skills Lab – that together deliver seamless support and provide the keys to successfully accelerating our clients on their digital journey. Our purpose is to partner with clients across defense, energy, manufacturing, resources, utilities and transport to create a smarter future, better world.<p>
    <strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.gotosage.com/" target="_blank"> gotosage.com</a>
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    • Screens: 1,000
    • Clients: 50 users
    • Alarms: 20,000
    • Devices used: 575
    • Architectures used: Standard with VMWARE Esxi
    • Databases used: PostgreSQL
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    Project Summary:

    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.

     

    Problem:

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    Solution:

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    Réseau31 has a large diversity among its 1,400 facilities, including water treatment plants, mountain catchments (basins), dams, and hydroelectric plants. Ignition, with its Perspective web visualization module, has made it possible to meet the need for ubiquity; any agent or client, depending on its credentials, can use the application on a desktop computer, in the machine room on a panel PC, and on a tablet or smartphone. Similarly, the application was developed to be an object-oriented language, meaning that changes could be made once, then deployed to all clients. 

    The Ignition platform has also made it possible to create not one application (replacing the legacy one), but several, using a multi-project approach. On the same server. For a single license fee. To date, Réseau31 has a supervision application and a hypervision, a decision support tool dedicated to managers and department heads.

    The needs covered are broader: control and command, monitoring of the overall operation of the water network (volumes distributed, flows, leak detection, etc.), monitoring of water quality, and monitoring of general consumption. Useful indicators such as m3/kW are now possible and will allow better management.

       


       

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      Réseau31 supports local development, perpetuates and develops local actions in the fields of water management by relying on reinforced means of expertise and operation. Réseau31 has 243 members: 228 districts, 14 groups of districts and the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne. This operation allows it to take into account local realities, starting from the needs expressed by the elected officials in the service of the citizens. Réseau31 is a mixed syndicate which includes: The department of Haute-Garonne, 250 local authorities of Haute-Garonne, and 30 inter-municipalities (syndicates, communities of communes, and communities of agglomerations).<p>
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      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.

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      Ignition Server Sizing and Architecture Guide

      This guide is intended to provide some tips to help you determine the correct architecture depending on your requirements. It is important to note that any architecture that you come up with needs to be fully tested and verified. Throughout that process you can observe the performance characteristics of the server in order to make any necessary adjustments to the architecture. There is no guarantee on performance since it is based on your design choices.

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      Ignition Community Live: Maker Project Show & Tell

      In this showcase, people share the fun, non-commercial projects they’ve created with the ultimate SCADA for makers: Ignition Maker Edition.

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