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.

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.

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.

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.

Variety of Connections, Unlimited Licensing Aid Cancer Therapy

Autolus Therapeutics is working hard to deliver life-changing benefits to cancer patients.

Two Companies Assist University with Engineering Education

For engineering students, experience with real-world tools can be very beneficial.

Improved Efficiency and Reporting for Large Manufacturer

Atlas Copco is a global company based in Stockholm, Sweden, with 40,000 employees worldwide.

Three Companies Aid Engineering Education

In many ways, today’s engineering students are our future. They’ll be key players in keeping our industries running for the next few decades.

SCADA and MES Connect with SAP in New Plant

AriZona Beverages implemented a system based on Ignition and Sepasoft MES for its SCADA integration with SAP. Learn more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

From Edge to Cloud in Record Time

In under six months, ARB Midstream built a complete Ignition SCADA system for an oil pipeline with 37 sites while upgrading hardware, creating a new network, adding edge computing, and more.

Ignition Meets FSMA Requirements for Better Food Safety

SmartWash Solutions is based in Salinas, California, near Silicon Valley and the California Central Valley — one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. It’s the perfect location for a food-safety technology company. SmartWash cares a great deal about food safety. That’s why it’s enabling data collection and analysis for its customers, and also helping those customers meet requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) created FSMA to strengthen prevention of foodborne illness.

Entire Brewing Process on a Single Software Platform

MadTree Brewing in Ohio starts using Ignition for its brewery SCADA system as the company grows rapidly. Learn about brewing beer with SCADA in this Ignition case study.

Leveraging Data from More Than 20 Applications Built on Ignition

JMA has built more than 20 applications on top of the Ignition platform, and plans to create even more in the future. The flexibility of Ignition allows JMA to quickly design whatever it needs. The software also gives JMA numerous options when it comes to absorbing data and analyzing it. The result has been a rise in productivity.

Pharma Company Meets Standards for 21 CFR 11 with Ignition

When Bachem Americas needed a system for human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), it required one that could not only improve its processes, but also satisfy requirements from the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 11 — also known as 21 CFR 11 — establishes rules for the use of electronic records and signatures, covering authentication, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more.

Solar-Power Provider Improves Integration, Data Analysis, and Reporting

DEPCOM has been using Ignition for its solar SCADA system to monitor and control its solar power plants since 2015. Learn more in this SCADA case study from Inductive Automation.

Early Success with Ignition Leads to Expanded Role

When CFF wanted a comprehensive software package that could run processes across several departments while collecting and analyzing data, it turned to Ignition by Inductive Automation®. Ignition is an industrial application platform with numerous tools for building solutions in human-machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

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.

Largest Cherry Production Line in the World Thrives on Ignition

Ignition enables Prima Frutta to share data about the line with workers throughout the plant. Every day, 10 managers and 900 other employees get data from more than 120 video screens around the facility. The screens are three different sizes: 27 inches, 32 inches, and 60 inches. Every year, Prima Frutta adds more monitors.

Clearing for Take-Off with Ignition

After understanding the needs for this particular project, we felt that Ignition was tailor-made for this. It’s a very open system, and we like the development and operation environment. We thought it was well-suited for this type of web-based system.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Makes Ignition Its Go-To SCADA Solution

Ignition expands the limits of SCADA for breweries by providing more features for IT and the ability to grow their SCADA systems exponentially. Learn more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

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.

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.

Building Product Manufacturer Implements Cutting-Edge MES Solution At 15 Plants And Counting

CertainTeed, a division of Saint-Gobain North America, has adopted Ignition along with many of the core Sepasoft modules to deploy ‘FaCTory+’ – a Vision-based MES solution. This system is currently being utilized by 15+ plants with many more on the roadmap. The key reasons behind its success are the close collaboration between the IT, operational, and business teams; its user-friendly and data-centric UI; and the sophisticated architecture that has allowed CertainTeed to scale easily from site to site.

Object-Oriented Approach Facilitates Improved Control For Large-Scale Neutrino Experiment

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is the latest large-scale neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which will be used to analyze the properties of neutrinos, a family of elusive fundamental particles. The main volume of the detector consists of 112 tons of liquid argon, kept cold and pure by an elaborate cryogenic system, which is monitored and controlled via Ignition.

Food Manufacturer Uses Ignition To Enhance Efficiency & Quality In Three Largest Bakeries

Goodman Fielder is a food manufacturer with a portfolio of well-known grocery and foodservice brands. Goodman Fielder’s markets span Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Islands, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia. This project includes the Goodman Fielder Baking division in Australia, starting with their three largest bakeries: Clayton in Melbourne, Victoria; Moorebank in Sydney, New South Wales; Burleigh Heads in Gold Coast, Queensland. Goodman Fielder envisaged streamlining the day-to-day production processes through Digital Transformation and implementing modern Industry 4.0 best practices and technology. To enhance production efficiency and product quality from the mixing equipment, Goodman Fielder identified the need for additional data automation, prompting the establishment of a SAP, Recipe, and Scheduling Initiative.

Ignition Aids Large SCADA Agriculture Project Outside Cairo

Madkour Group needed to achieve Digital Transformation on the project infrastructure and automation system for the National Project for Developing the New Valley in Toshka. The project aims to reclaim one million acres outside of Cairo as part of Egypt’s overall plan to reclaim and cultivate three million acres in total. Leveraging Ignition’s scalable architecture, unlimited licensing, flexibility, and rapid development tools, Madkour established a central control building to easily operate, manage, and maintain a large number of sites, equipment, and facilities spread out across this vast desert area.

Ignition-Based UNS Provides Real-Time Orchestration For Pharmaceutical Company

The FMS (Factory Management System) is a real-time automation orchestrator for the entire plant, including production equipment, intra-plant logistics, warehouses, utilities and clean rooms. Through the integration with Level 2, 3 and 4 applications, the FMS delivers a layer of abstraction and a single-point-of-access that allows operations to monitor and control all processes in real time. FMS’ abstraction layer is based on the concept of the Unified Namespace where all applications can exchange the required information for process automation in a decoupled architecture and where Cinfa has set the information semantic model of its business.

Rock Quarry Implements Ignition to Improve Visibility, Safety & Decision-Making

George Reed, with the help of Factory Technologies, was looking to further automate the processes at its quarries and make Ignition an organization-wide standard.

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.

Cutting-Edge DMS Emphasizes Data Contextualization For Pharmaceutical Organization

The objective of this project was to develop the Automation Infrastructure and Data Management System backbone for the world’s largest Cell and Gene Therapy Pharmaceutical (CDMO). Center for Breakthrough Medicines’ (CBM) primary aim was to automate data collection and contextualization while ensuring logical controls are in place to protect client data and proprietary information. The system will provide a platform for equipment deployment and integration, maximizes flexibility and redundancy while minimizing upkeep and maintenance, and incorporates cutting-edge automation and IT technology for expansion and future growth.

Alarm Management System Makes Compliance Easier For Biopharmaceutical Company

Merck & Co., Inc., the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world, requested Grantek’s assistance in building an alarm management system with the Ignition SCADA platform for its facility in West Point, PA. This solution provides alarm monitoring, historization, and a management interface for 10,000+ points while also delivering ad hoc and scheduled reporting tools to aid in the rationalization of up to 30,000 alarm events per day. Grantek’s solution, built with Ignition Perspective, also provides point change management and tracking tools to assist site administrators in maintaining the associated point metadata. These results would be difficult to achieve without Ignition’s versatile capabilities.

Data Center Supports Continuous Improvement Through SCADA Synchronization

Vantage Data Centers’ goal for this project was to design and deploy an Ignition Perspective system for multiple data centers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), used for both system control and monitoring, as well as supporting operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Ignition Community Unites To Build Homeless Management Information System

Room in the Inn (RITI) was using four disparate software packages, Excel, and email to run their operations, but there were still too many gaps and the logistics were too complex for the existing solutions. Vertech offered to build an Ignition application that combined all their software packages for their existing operations and included additional logistics features. And Vertech offered to do it for free. Over 150 volunteers from around the world participated in this two-and-a-half-year project to provide RITI with the solution they need to help serve the homeless community in Nashville, TN.

Ignition Empowers Business Evolution For Leader In Water Supply Lines

Saint-Gobain PAM has launched a business modernization program to remain at the highest level of competitiveness, and digital technology plays a key role. Saint-Gobain PAM chose the 150-year-old reference plant to demonstrate that leveraging Ignition as an enterprise platform could cover every need and that a team of 6 experts could successfully manage the entire transformation, including SCADA, MES, track and trace, quality control, and many other functions.

Custom Visual Tools Help Bring Animatronic Creatures To Life

Creature Technology Company developed and implemented the C-Tech 2 system with support from ESM Automation Systems (AKA ESM Australia) and Inductive Automation. The system provides theatrical technicians and operators with simple visual tools to modify or create interaction and motion of complex animatronics figures without needing to access or be experts in PLC, motion, or SCADA programming. The drag-and-drop interface offers a friendly and familiar way to pull dynamic functions from a palette to a workspace and draw links between them to create complex relationships. For this project, the data structures, functions, variables, relationships, and even screen layouts and tabbed views are linked to a PostgreSQL database. Beckhoff industrial controllers, connected to the same database, interpret configurations in the database into logic and motion control settings. The logic and motion control settings are used in conjunction with motion profiles generated by studio animation tools to create fluid, lifelike movements, and interaction of animatronic creatures.

SCADA Aids New Approach to Process Safety Studies and Training

Safety training of industrial personnel is extremely important, and while most training techniques are well established, there’s always room for improvement.

New SCADA Helps to Heat Second-Largest City in Denmark

Aarhus chose Ignition for their district heating software and their SCADA solution for district heating system, and connected about 700,000 tags and 150 devices.

Creating a Smart Field with 114 Sites in Just Eight Months

NGL Energy Partners is a diversified midstream oil & gas company that provides multiple services to producers and end users, including transportation, storage, blending, and marketing of crude oil.

Automotive Supplier Moves Faster with New SCADA/MES

Veoneer, a leading global supplier for the automotive industry, chose Ignition to quickly build a new SCADA & MES solution. Discover the power of Ignition SCADA in automotive industry control systems.

Digital Transformation for 18 Hydroelectric Power Plants

Taking care of our planet requires commitment and leadership. Engie has displayed both in its expansion of renewable energy production, such as hydroelectricity.

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.

EFA Automazione S.p.A. & Orva s.r.l. Revamp Plants Under Advanced Supervision System

Orva uses Ignition for better production in the food industry.

EFA Automazione S.p.A.: SCADA Keeps Ötzi the Iceman Cool

The South Tyrol Museum leverages Ignition for perfect environment control.

EFA Automazione S.p.A. & Drillmec S.p.A. Create Single Project With Three-Level Synchronization

Drillmec updated its SCADA system, created new dashboards, and made several other improvements.

Numerous Tools on One Platform Save Time and Money

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

Baggage-Handling System Upgrade Inspires Future Projects

Dublin Airport improved baggage-handling operations with Ignition, looks to expand on its use.

Solar Provider Puts More Than 30 Sites on a Single SCADA Platform

Ecoplexus now has a consistent look and feel for all the sites — in addition to lower costs, greater efficiency, more data than ever before, and improved data analysis.

Semiconductor Fab Plant Improves Connections to Machinery

Qorvo uses the SECS/GEM Module for Ignition, which enables Ignition projects and third-party applications to communicate with semiconductor fab equipment.

Helping Customers with 21 CFR Part 11

Snapdragon recently adopted Ignition for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and is leveraging that system to help its customers comply with requirements from the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Improving Product Quality and Quantity

World’s Largest Yogurt Plant Thrives on Ignition

See how Chobani, the top Greek yogurt brand in America, has been leveraging Ignition SCADA software for its plant automation for several years.

SugarCreek Leverages Ignition for Continuous Improvement and OT-IT Convergence

“Before we put Ignition in, getting real-time data was quite often a struggle,” said Ed Rodden, chief information officer for SugarCreek. “Typically, we were looking at information that was a day old. Now with Ignition, the data is immediately available and highly actionable. It’s a world of difference.”

World Leader in Aerial Work Platforms Expands on Ignition

JLG began using Ignition in 2014 to better understand its downtime causes. Since then, JLG’s use of Ignition has expanded rapidly. JLG uses Ignition for machine control, data collection, remote alarm notification, reporting, and more. “We’re using Ignition in various areas throughout the plant, and we’re seeing results in machine control and greater efficiency thanks to the downtime tracking,” said Tom Koontz, senior maintenance engineer at JLG.

Brewery Improves Efficiency in Multiple Areas with Ignition

To run its main brewery in Escondido, near San Diego, Stone uses Ignition by Inductive Automation® for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and for its manufacturing execution system (MES). Ignition is an industrial application platform with several tools for creating solutions in SCADA, MES, human-machine interface (HMI), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Agricultural Cooperative Solves Automation Problems with Ignition

Many problems were resolved with the Ignition architecture, which centralized both historical and real-time data in a single database. This allowed for better management of data overall. Ignition’s licensing model, which provides unlimited licenses at no extra expense, was also helpful. And Ignition’s ability to work with a variety of operating systems also improved things for AFA.

Utility Deploys Ignition for SCADA and Much More

With Ignition, data flows throughout the enterprise, from the plant floor to the executive level — even via mobile devices. Operators have a holistic view of the plant, so they can better understand what’s happening throughout the facility. Operators get advance warnings on overflow events, and the department sees time savings and other efficiencies on a daily basis.

Two Plants, One Solution

Adams Group, the largest supplier of organic expeller-pressed vegetable oils in the US, uses Ignition in its SCADA & MES solution. Read more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

Water Agency Welcomes the Future with Ignition

While many water/waste water facilities stick with outdated supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, Aguas de Saltillo in Mexico is taking a different path and accelerating toward Industry 4.0 — and is seeing numerous benefits today.

Ignition Gets It Done for Electric, Water, and Sewer

Ignition is so versatile, CLW will use it across three departments. It’s already working for water and electric, and will be used for waste water too. CLW was introduced to Ignition by systems integrator Brown Engineers.

Ignition Gives New Chemical Plant Room to Grow

Baze Chemical called upon Coherent Technologies to develop a SCADA system that could fit and grow with the needs of the new ethoxylation plant. For Timothy Triplett, the CEO and founder of Coherent Technologies, the challenge of the project was not only in finding the software solution that would best fit Baze's needs, but in anticipating what solutions the plant would need at the start of construction, through the growth of the plant, and finally to the full operation

Jail Enhances Security Network with Ignition

On paper, the security technology that Mendocino County Jail used prior to 2014 was a perfect fit for its day-to-day operations. But in reality, the system had become outdated and its performance was not up to par.

Ignition Proves Effectiveness of Energy-Saving Systems

Enermix, a Finnish integration firm that regularly works with energy systems and building automation, provides a free service that uses Ignition to make sure its customers are getting the most out of their building’s heating system. Due to the extreme winters in Finland, building heating systems are an expensive necessity. Fortunately, with Enermix’s work in Ignition, customers are able to save energy and money and see their month-over-month consumption and savings.

Large Data Center, Manageable System

After a number of vendors failed to show American Internet Services (AIS) a system versatile enough for its needs, the company turned to Brown Engineers, a mechanical and electrical consulting firm it had worked with on other projects. Brown Engineers suggested a modular software platform called Ignition by Inductive Automation®.

Ignition Saves City of Hot Springs Several Million Dollars

Brown Engineers’ work with the City of Hot Springs Arkansas resulted in millions of dollars of savings, thanks to Ignition. The city was experiencing challenges with flooding and due to both their topographic location and their large geographic boundaries. With the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and remote capabilities of Ignition, the city saved scores of money in preventative maintenance and future care.

Municipal Water District Goes All-In with Ignition

For a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week water and waste water management operation, having a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is a must. A SCADA system should make workers’ jobs easier, but if it’s not working properly, or it’s unable to keep up as the enterprise expands and upgrades its processes, it becomes a hassle to deal with.

Ignition Brings Data Together for Grain Facility

Mid Kansas Cooperative, a grain storage and intake facility, worked with KASA Industrial Controls to create a system that carefully monitors their site data. With many complex processes and industry standards, Kansas Mill needed a flexible system that could leverage templates, graphics, and more in an efficient design environment. The facility’s use of Ignition has received rave reviews from operators and management alike.