Global Collaboration Helps Steel Manufacturer Implement Centralized Control Room

The main purpose of Uddeholm, a Voestalpine company, is to manufacture high-quality industrial steel tools, applying best practices for an efficient use of resources and a sustainable development. This strategy has led Uddeholm to become the world’s leading steel tool manufacturer with more than 350 years of innovation and presence in more than 90 countries.

All Equipment And Recipes Across 10 Lines Monitored With Single Project

This Ignition project came as a result of a controls-focused project on increasing OEE across 10 packaging lines, specifically monitoring two aspects of production. The first was trending the speeds of each piece of equipment on the line to allow users to monitor the V-Curve over time. The second was maintaining equipment recipe data and tracking when changes were made.

Glass Company Increases Profitability With True-North Metrics

HMI Glass was facing numerous challenges impacting profitability, leading to reduced earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) since 2018. The scope of the project was to utilize intelligent manufacturing data to implement a lean management model and drive cultural transformation. The success of the project was tied to fees based on performance and utilized a gainshare model based on a cost of poor-quality improvement.

Real-Time Data & Custom Drivers Allow Power Supplier to Anticipate Demand

First Gen is one of the oldest and largest conglomerates in the Philippines that has an interest in power generation and power distribution. While Energy Development Corporation is a diversified renewable energy company, both are under the First Philippine Holdings Corporation – A Lopez Group of Companies, who constantly strive to meet the needs of its customers. In June 2021, the Enhanced Wholesale Electricity Spot Market Design Operations (EWDO) was launched. This officially started the new regulations for shortening of the dispatch interval: instead of a per-hour basis, it was transitioned to a five-minute interval. First Gen and Energy Development Corporation (EDC) have adapted the five-minute interval in their Central Dispatch Operations (CDO). This new regulation was addressed by installing multiple Ignition gateways for faster data monitoring, collection, and secured control of power generation across more than 30+ power plants (and counting). Controtek developed customized drivers to get the real-time dispatch setpoints from the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) to meet the demands of the operations and compliance with the new regulation of the EWDO.

Digital Troubleshooting Guide Boosts Chemical Company's Efficiency

Cooley Group has a corporate Manufacturing 4.0/Digital Transformation initiative that it is implementing using the Ignition platform. RoviSys was brought on to help guide Cooley Group on this journey and develop the functionalities it needed in a templatized way that promotes scalability and supportability. Cooley Group requested the use of Ignition to develop a Digital Troubleshooting Guide that operators could use to help resolve downtime events impacting their OEE. For this project, RoviSys implemented a creative solution that gave Cooley Group exactly what it asked for, yet made it easy for it to build and configure on its own within the Ignition designer.

Water Utility Seamlessly Transitions Operating Systems and Speeds Development

Design and develop a new treatment plant HMI to replace WinCC and condense third-party applications into one platform.

Reliable Data Supports Cleaner Energy Initiative For 50 States

One of South Jersey Industries’ (SJI) key initiatives is to deliver on its commitment to provide cleaner energy. The generation of renewable natural gas facilities at dairy farms is a key production commitment for SJI. A modular production facility is required at each farm site, near the raw materials. The speed of deployment and number of sites involved demands the establishment of a universal architecture and platform for the integration of control and enterprise systems at the company. In addition, the distributed nature of the system and criticality to the energy infrastructure demand the highest level of security and reliability. Finally, SJI requires that all these sites be centrally monitored from an enterprise SCADA system that will also historize data for financial and regulatory reporting. The central importance of reliable data for continual operational financial justification proves the common Digital Transformation adage that “data is the new gas.” SJI Industries tasked Automated Control Concepts (ACC) to build a foundation for the application of key control and information technologies and systems that will allow the organization to realize world-class Digital Transformation and create a secure data pipeline. In doing so, SJI would be able to provide users at all levels of the organization with access to control system information. Through the strategic application of industrial information technologies, significant benefits are realized in the following areas: reliability, availability, visibility, and security. ACC successfully built and deployed this operational technology stack on Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform, which let ACC establish a scalable architecture to support plants/sites of varying sizes and complexity. The integration of data from the site’s control level, through various secure (DMZ) network layers to the corporate core network and cloud providers, has been addressed.

Enterprise SCADA Gives New Zealand Meat Producer Standardized Control

Tamaki Control implemented a new Ignition Perspective standards framework for ANZCO Foods. This framework replaced unsupported SCADA systems and enabled new automation projects and ERP API integration solutions across its 10 manufacturing and processing sites in New Zealand. The project involved upgrading or installing Ignition 8.1 at each site and connecting them on the Gateway Network through an enterprise architecture with the Enterprise Administration Module. The result is a cohesive and efficient system that has positioned ANZCO Foods for continued success.

New Control System Improves Safety And Compliance For Pharmaceutical Company

Initially, Zendal approached Optomation Systems to tackle their needs for monitoring unmanned storage units holding pharmaceutical final products for their customers. When Optomation introduced Ignition, it rapidly evolved into a larger project with a broader scope to encompass the data acquisition of varied equipment, process control and supervision, alarm notification, data historization, and automatic report generation. The main objective of the project was to implement a system that acts as a data repository for the information collected from the dedicated equipment in the different production areas and auxiliary services, both to satisfy regulatory requirements and prove compliance with CDMO obligations to customers. In addition, the system integrated new production areas into the system and expanded functionality to include control and supervision of several processes. Field devices and sensors are connected to controllers that execute automated sequences, and from Ignition, operators have full access to the operation, just like a traditional SCADA system.

Numerous Custom Applications from One Platform for Provider of Gases, Materials, and Equipment

The customer suffered from a classic corporate administrative problem: too many of its critical processes were managed by a hodgepodge of spreadsheets and paper records. Off-the-shelf products solved some of these needs but were too inflexible to be adapted to the custom internal procedures. Ignition allowed custom applications to be built to satisfy these needs and gain wide community acceptance and shape corporate policy and culture.

Cloud-Hosted Enterprise SCADA for Large Provider of Aggregate Material and Cement

Dolese Bros. is a large provider of aggregate material and cement throughout the state of Oklahoma. Over the past several years, Dolese has upgraded many of its quarries with advanced automation, networking, and operational systems. A key component of this strategy is the deployment of Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform at each quarry, and then a cloud-hosted enterprise-level Ignition system to provide reporting, visualization, and business system integration at a corporate level. Dolese enlisted the help of Industrial Networking Solutions (INS) to accomplish their goals.

New SCADA Improves Productivity for Biomanufacturing Company

National Resilience Inc. offers a broad mix of customized manufacturing and development capabilities at their Mississauga, Ontario facility to serve the needs of biopharmaceutical companies at all stages of the drug development process – from pre-clinical development to commercial supply. Resilience requested Grantek’s assistance to develop an Ignition SCADA to support new GMP manufacturing processes in the building area known as the “H-Area.” This solution was needed to rapidly scale a brownfield contract pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, allowing Resilience to maximize their productivity and meet their commercialization goals.

Improved Monitoring of Power Generators Nationwide

Brown Engineers developed a USA-branded solution specific to their needs for monitoring a nationwide fleet of generators for high-reliability customers.

Industry Leader Reduces Paper, Gets Faster Reporting and Better Productivity

This project was created by FG Automação Industrial for Saint-Gobain, a world leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. To better attend to their customers' needs, FG Automação Industrial used Ignition Perspective and Sepasoft's OEE Downtime modules. By combining these modules, they were able to transform the Saint-Gobain tube production management process into a robust, user-friendly, dynamic, reliable, and 100% digital interface.

New Mobile Capabilities for United Airlines at Houston Airport

In addition to the HMI baggage handling system Vision application running on the workstations for Houston Terminal C/E (and now B), the intent was to offer the same functionality on a mobile device, such as a tablet. While incorporating the same security roles as the Vision application, the operator on the tablet can view/acknowledge/shelve alarms, view graphics, view and interact with device statuses and controls, view statistics and view connection status details from the new Perspective application.

Variety of Connections and Unlimited Licensing Aid Cancer Therapy

This project involved using Ignition in the personalized medicine industry to handle multiple communication protocols in one 21 CFR Part 11-compliant environment. The same regulatory data integrity requirements exist in personalized medicine as in large-scale productions and Ignition has proven to be a valuable tool because of its flexibility, mobility, and above all — device integration.

Improvements Beyond Expectations for Global Leader in Beauty & Wellness

This project was developed for a greenfield site, built for the manufacturing of beauty and wellness products. The customer had outgrown their original site and had to expand their production to meet demand. The new site had to provide a solution with improved visibility on their systems, services, and manufacturing processes, and provide consistency in the quality of their manufacturing procedures.

Improved SCADA, HMI, and MES for Ninth-Largest Craft Brewer in United States

Stone Brewing is the ninth-largest craft brewing company in the US, located in Escondido, CA, and was founded by Greg Koch in 1996. The goal of the project was to upgrade the existing Siemens BRAUMAT brewing automation system with a new design consisting of Rockwell PLCs, networks, Ignition HMI, historian, batch, and MES software for the two brewhouses at Stone Brewing Company in Escondido, California.

Lower Costs, More Data for Australian Water Agency with Over 300 Sites

A regional municipal council has implemented the next generation of remote telemetry monitoring and data-driven decision-making. This represents a significant step for the water industry in Australia and provides access to the same data-driven decision-making process used by large water authorities for a fraction of the cost. Since implementing the new system, the council has seen the commencement of significant cost reductions, improved planning, and data-driven decision-making

Global Automotive Machinery Company Gets Single Source of Truth in Every Department

Ignition is used to create a SCADA/MES application that replaces a lot of separate Excel sheets and an old Citect SCADA platform. By using Ignition, AT-Automation instead created a single source of truth for every department (production, process engineering, technical service, quality, logistics) within the company.

Modern HMI/SCADA Improves Oil Pipeline for Global Agribusiness Cooperative

Streamline Control worked with CHS Pipelines and Terminals – a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers, and cooperatives across the US – to replace a legacy SCADA with a new system built around open standards for communication (MQTT/SPVB) and utilizing Ignition at all levels of the Purdue Model. Streamline was tasked and successfully executed all project activities including designing the SCADA architecture, developing high-performance HMI displays in Vision, developing a robust and comprehensive tagging/asset structure for each asset location, building Perspective displays for enterprise users, integrating Ignition with leak detection systems, developing applications in Ignition used for batch tracking, pig tracking and compliance.

Enterprise SCADA Streamlines Processes for Renewable Energy

SB Energy engaged Vertech to provide a world-class enterprise SCADA solution for their new remote operations center. They needed a single-platform SCADA system to oversee six solar locations across North America and report industry-standard KPIs and data analytics in real-time.

New SCADA and Greater Mobility for Large Water-Management Agency

The evolution of Réseau31 agents' missions requires more and more mobility and access to management and supervision tools using mobile terminals (smartphones, tablets). In addition, the rapid changes in the infrastructure to be monitored and operated (organic changes in the network, maintenance, new contracts, etc.) require frequent changes to the applications.

Data from Numerous Processes Aids Large Salmon Producer

This project has been developed by employees at the automation department of Nordlaks Produkter AS for the Nordlaks group. The project consists of several departments where operators can control entire processes and managers can extract information and data all the way down to the component level.

Largest Publicly Traded U.S. Water/Wastewater Company Benefits from Enterprise Solution

More organizations are bringing Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) together to assist in business decisions at every level of the organization. American Water teamed up with Flexware Innovation and Automated Controls Concepts (ACC) to create an Ignition ecosystem for SCADA/HMI standards, central data collection and analysis, and integration with other backend systems to support data-driven decision-making across the company. This project was the first and largest-scale standardization of their operational technology systems, and consisted of converting an outdated SCADA system to a modern system that is ISA 101-compliant. Ignition Perspective and Cirrus Link MQTT modules were included as key parts of this solution.

UK’s Leading Leather Manufacturer Has Better Data, Better Results

The project allows Scottish Leather Group to track rawhides through an intake fridge system, and categorizes these hides based on their food grade, weight, gender, origin and status to intelligently fill the fridge rails. An outfeed selection algorithm helps operators choose the best available hides for a given fridge outfeed job (i.e. lime processing, recirc, etc.).

Strong Scalability with the Cloud, MQTT, Mobility & More

The ESM team developed a MQTT fleet management system for a client with systems across Australia. See how Ignition makes cloud scalability a reality.

Largest Offshore Oil Operation in Argentina Improves Production

ENAP Argentina has operations in the Austral Basin and the San Jorge Gulf Basin. The Magallanes area has five oil and gas production platforms. It is the largest offshore operation in Argentina. ENAP has an integrated business model based on a strategic management process and projects, whose ultimate goal is to increase the value of the company with safety and responsibility, contributing to the integration and energy supply of Argentina and Chile.

Automation Solutions Ecuador

Real-Time and Historical Data Improve OEE

Piedmont Automation chose Ignition SCADA software for visualization and Sepasoft MES software for optimizing OEE downtime in this project for Daimler.

Custom ERP Software for a Variety of Businesses

North Point Technology, LLC has created ProFusionSM, a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP system designed for small project-based businesses that need all the features of the big brands without the price tag. North Point calls it “ERP for the Rest of Us.”

OEE, SPC, and Real-Time Dashboards for Greater Insight into Six Production Lines

Gaining real-time and historical insight in the production process on any level is the key in this project. All of this is achieved by leveraging the options that Ignition delivers. Using standards in combination with the customization resulted in a state-of-the-art project.

Real-Time Data Across the Entire Enterprise for a Leading Oil & Gas Company in Latin America

Pluspetrol, one of the leading oil & gas companies in Latin America, acquired Block 10 operations in Ecuador and successfully finished migrating one of the largest SCADA systems in Ecuador to Ignition in 2019. The fact that all Ecuador operations chose Ignition as their monitoring, control, and information platform allowed the corporation to evaluate its benefits and choose it as the appropriate tool for digital transformation of the company at the corporate level.

Mobile Robots and Logistics Automation for Avery Dennison

More and more organizations are introducing automation into their logistics operations through the use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Over the past several years, Flexware Innovation has assisted customers with this effort by leveraging Ignition to integrate these vehicles into their existing ecosystems. This integration typically includes interfacing with automation/control infrastructure, inventory management systems, and other line-of-business applications. The result of this continuous development is a highly configurable, Ignition-based middleware framework named LIFT (Logistics Integration Framework Technology). 

New SCADA and OEE for Ariens, Maker of Four Million Snow Blowers

Ariens has a state-of-the-art landscaping equipment production facility that includes industry-leading machinery and manufacturing principles, but its data-gathering process was falling behind. The company was able to offer highly granular data, but the data came at the cost of time, meaning any insight gained lagged behind. Ariens brought Corso Systems in to take the OEE data collection process from pen and paper to automated real-time results using Ignition Perspective and the Sepasoft OEE Module.

Improved Data Management for High-Speed Catamarans

The purpose of the project was to develop a DNV-GL approved Ship Integrated Management System (SIMS) to manage data from various inputs on the ship and present information in a consistent manner on operator workstations distributed throughout the vessel.

Creating a High-Capacity Lab for COVID Testing in Just Nine Months

Ginkgo Bioworks built a new diagnostic sample-processing lab using the Ignition SCADA platform. See how to leverage a modern SCADA system in pharma applications.

Smithfield Hog Production Improves Feed Mill Operations with Modern SCADA Platform

This project — automating the hog feed production plant at Smithfield Hog Production’s facility in Milford, Utah — uses Allen-Bradley CompactLogix processors accompanied with Flex and SLC I/O hardware. The computers are based on a virtual environment, having all machines running on a common server connected to thin clients. CPM Beta Raven’s MillMaster is the interface for the consumer to receive product, run recipes, track inventory, and loadout product seamlessly and accurately.

High-Performance HMI and Single User Interface for Minerals Division of Global Resources Leader

This project is a high-performance human-machine interface (HMI) which assists technicians at BHP’s Technology Remote Operations Centre (TROC) for Minerals Australia in monitoring and managing the status of critical technology infrastructure and components across the operations.

Edge Computing and MQTT Help Uncrewed Vessels Gather Data from Oceans

XOCEAN is an Irish company with offices in the UK and Canada that has designed and developed a fleet of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to provide data collection services to surveyors, companies, and agencies globally. XOCEAN’s CyberDeck 2.0 system uses Ignition as its controls platform to create a web-based command and control interface for its fleet of USVs. The system allows XOCEAN to perform over-the-horizon operations with USVs in any marine location, and work with remote pilots in any location with internet access.

AWS, MQTT, Edge, and Perspective for Easy Government Compliance and Better Operations

With this new system, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) can collect data from numerous locations and see all the data in one place. It’s now much easier to do compliance reporting, and data is also used to improve operations in several ways.

Modern SCADA Improves Operations Across Three Water Districts

Read how three counties in Kentucky are using Ignition to leverage MQTT and SCADA for their water treatment plant operations, gaining flexibility and scalability in the process.

Cloud-Hosted SCADA with MQTT Gives Water Agency Faster Access to Data

This water utility in Michigan uses the Ignition platform to leverage MQTT and SCADA for water treatment plant monitoring and control.

Advanced Monitoring and Control for a Data Center Leader in Italy

This project provided Aruba with an advanced real-time monitoring and control system for its revamped IT2 Arezzo Data Center. This was Aruba’s first data center, put into operation more than 15 years ago, covering approximately 2,000 square meters.

Improved Data Integrity and Easier Compliance with 21 CFR Part 11

Par Pharmaceutical worked with Grantek as part of Par’s corporate data integrity initiative to improve production data quality and regulatory compliance. The project related to fluid beds, which are pieces of equipment used to reduce the moisture content of pharmaceutical powder and granules. The project was to draft corporate data integrity requirements for all control systems across Par Pharmaceutical's industries, and then develop a new system for the fluid bed as a pilot against the new requirements.

Modern SCADA, MQTT, and the Cloud Bring Intelligent Buildings for SNCF, the French National Railway Company

This project is about digital transformation for railway stations across France. The challenge was to collect and interact with greenfield and brownfield facilities in a highly distributed BMS-like environment.

Industry Leader Gets Connected with Perspective

Waste Management (WM) desired to better serve the communities in which they operate, as well as the environment, while improving the quality of life for landfill employees. To do this, WM partnered with SCS Engineers’ Remote Monitoring & Controls division and Vertech to implement an Ignition 8.0 Perspective SCADA system at the WM landfill in West Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This design has become a standard template for SCADA at WM landfills and facilities.

Large Greenfield Site for AriZona Beverages

The goal was to provide an ISA-88 batch control solution for a greenfield site for can/bottle beverage production. And also to provide MES/SCADA functionality for OEE, downtime tracking, detailed production scheduling, and SAP/MES interfacing for process orders, batch, and finished goods reporting. This was all done for the new AriZona Beverages plant in Keasbey, New Jersey.

Perspective Exceeds Expectations for Water Facility

APCO provided PLC, HMI, and telemetry upgrades for the Ashley Valley Water Reclamation Facility (AVWRF). The new HMI was built entirely on the Ignition Perspective platform. The HMI implementation included high-performance, mobile-friendly graphics that gave plant personnel the information they needed to do their jobs.

Unique Project for Large Distillery

This project was designed to provide the operators with an interface to control the machines within their work areas. It also follows workflows to provide real-time monitoring of the recipes in production in grain operations, mashing, fermentation, distillation, processing, and finished goods. The company believes this is the first implementation of Ignition on this scale in any US distillery.  

Perspective, Edge, and MQTT Bring Significant Cost Savings

WaterBridge, a midstream water management company, was not receiving the level of reliability and support that it needed with its existing control and SCADA system. TIGA performed a phase-one engineering assessment to determine the level of effort required to replace WaterBridge’s control and SCADA systems to an updated IIoT platform. Through the assessment, TIGA was able to define a migration path to allow WaterBridge to gain flexibility, consistent visibility into its operations, ownership of its control and SCADA systems, and significant cost savings over the life of the systems. Ignition Edge with MQTT was implemented at 65 saltwater disposal facilities, and Ignition Perspective was used for mobile devices.

New SCADA/MES For Supplier to Leading Automakers

At Veoneer’s facility in Goleta, California, the company manufactures advanced night-vision systems for the world’s leading automakers. For supervisory control and traceability, Veoneer used an internally built system in Goleta. Due to a change in the corporation’s structure, this solution was no longer viable and Flexware was asked to develop a solution that replaced and enhanced the previous solution’s functionality with the Ignition platform.  Prior to this engagement, Flexware developed a custom MES solution for a different Veoneer facility with the Ignition platform, and word traveled around the organization about how powerful the software is. It was an easy decision to continue the use of Ignition at the Goleta facility.

Toronto Airport Moves from Seven SCADA Systems to One

This project was an upper level/HMI replacement of the baggage handling systems of both Terminals 1 and 3 at Toronto Pearson International Airport. This project went into live operation in March 2020.

Connecting 93 Sites with Maps, Dashboards, and More

This project for Manila Water Company integrates remote local control systems of water-supply and used-water facilities, in different locations, into a centralized SCADA system for remote data gathering, operations monitoring, and enterprise integration. Ignition is connected to 93 sites.

Better Asset Monitoring for Dublin Airport

The Dublin Airport Fixed Electrical Ground Power (FEGP) system gathers aircraft ground power usage data. It compiles, stores, and sends the resulting records to the Dublin AOS system (a part of the Airport billing system). This data is collated with the stand allocations and used to generate billing for airlines' ground power usage. 

Perspective and Edge for Better Results

Ennis-Flint contracted DSI to help automate the material flow process for each of its polymer-producing machines and record the data for reporting and material consumption. DSI has automated the facilities in Ennis, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; and Thomasville, North Carolina. Each facility has several mixing systems, with up to 20 independent raw-material feeders, along with tank farms, flow meters, weight scales, and agitators. Current plans include automatically sending recipe information from the company’s product development and ERP systems to enhance the end quality of the product and reduce the possibility of mistakes. 

Fast Work, Fast ROI in Materials Science

Grantek created a solution for SiO2 that involved both Ignition and Sepasoft’s Business Connector and Web Services modules. SiO2 was scaling up its production process and also investing in a new ERP system. To get maximum value out of the ERP, SiO2 wanted to implement an MES system to improve work-order handling and reconciliation. The solution, built on Ignition and Sepasoft, allowed SiO2 to reduce the number of ERP workstations needed by about 20. This led to significant savings in licensing costs, hardware costs, and IT operating expenses moving forward. Return on investment is expected within one year. And the project was delivered in approximately one year, from requirements-gathering to commissioning. Grantek helped SiO2 develop requirements; handle work-order management, OEE, and recipe management; and tie into the ERP system with Sepasoft.

Greater Mobility for Large Battery Manufacturer in Italy

Quality assurance, progress reports, and product documentation were done through paperwork. The standard MES solution had a hard time connecting to equipment such as simple scales. It was also difficult to implement needed customizations. This all led to more time needed for data entry, delayed communication of issues, delayed solutions, and a lot of hardware to be maintained by the IT department.

Single Platform Brings Greater Efficiency

This Ignition project encompasses all of the control for cheese manufacturing and retail cheese packaging at Meister Cheese, responsible for converting 225 million pounds of milk per year into final products. All of the automated processes from milk receiving through final packaging are included, and the project supports scheduling, traceability, and reporting systems that have streamlined manufacturing and back-office processes.

Business and Building Management for French Government

This is a user and visitor-services portal for Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse (CNAV), France’s major pension and occupational health fund.

Ignition Edge, Perspective, and MQTT for 1,000 Wells

The project was started to replace KODA Resources’ legacy poll/response SCADA system for an upstream oil & gas company. The existing servers were out of warranty and support. The solution was to develop an IIOT-ready SCADA system on virtual machines that would support MQTT and the company’s desire to use data to drive the business. The field is very diverse, with approximately 1,000 wells producing both oil and natural gas through a variety of different RTU/PLC platforms, and has been around since the 1950s.

Big Production Increase for Chocolate Factory

This is a new SCADA system powered by Ignition for the new Grupo Alimenticio Alba del Fonce (GAAF) chocolate factory located in Piedecuesta, Colombia. The new system upgrades the old standalone control to enable a fully integrated chocolate plant.

Comprehensive Mobile Platform for Local Charity

As part of BIJC’s corporate responsibility commitment, the company donated the license, development, and maintenance of a cloud-based volunteer management system using Ignition Perspective to the UK charity SERV Kent. SERV Kent transports emergency blood, samples, and medication between hospitals. Along with improved security, satisfying GDPR regulations, and providing geolocation tracking, this project also increased logistic capabilities — which have been invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic with the charity’s workload rising significantly. 

SCADA Migration, Connection to Enterprise for Large Oil & Gas Customer

This project involves the migration and updating of one of the largest SCADA systems in Ecuador developed in Wonderware. Its main challenges were to bring the customer’s operations from the late 1990s into the most modern technology for control and monitoring, and to deliver information from five field sites in the jungle into Agip’s corporate level located in its headquarters in Quito, Ecuador.

New SCADA System Includes 3D Images, Mobility, and More

MR Systems replaced a water plant SCADA system with Ignition SCADA and found it exponentially easier to set up and configure.

Turning Landfill Gas Into Clean Energy With Ignition Perspective

Operations run 24/7/365. This requires around-the-clock monitoring, control, security, and notification, in addition to the ability to interact with the system at any given time.

New Capabilities in Medical Sterilization

Steritec Automation created its Sterilizer Control System to control, monitor, and document multiple simultaneous instances of the ethylene oxide sterilization process and all ancillary facility resources.

Replacing Five SCADA Systems with One

The Utility Department for Fort Smith, Arkansas, provides water and sewer service to a population of approximately 150,000 within the city limits and in the greater Fort Smith area, either directly from Fort Smith’s systems or indirectly through Fort Smith’s wholesale customers.

MES for a Top Pharma Factory in El Salvador

This project involved the implementation of a manufacturing execution system (MES) in the Salvadoran pharmaceutical industry. The project was for Gamma Laboratories, one of the top 10 pharmaceutical factories in El Salvador. Gamma has more than 280 employees.

Artificial Intelligence Drives Innovative Automation

ANDRITZ used Ignition to build a platform for training artificial intelligence in industrial automation as part of this award-winning project.

One System Replaces Many While Also Improving Mobility

ATA used Ignition to create a project that serves as an HMI, SCADA, and MES tool for Limex, touching on multiple levels of the automation pyramid. The machine interface was previously done with Ignition’s mobile module, and is currently running on the new Ignition Perspective.

Smart Technology for Paris Tramway

The Smart Mobility Platform (SMP), built with Ignition, is a project commissioned two years ago by the Products and New Technologies Department of Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES). The aim of this project is to provide a software solution empowered and customized for the Smart Mobility sector:

Greater Efficiency for Pharma Customer

This project was done for Biofarmitalia, a pharmaceutical company that’s been in business for more than 20 years. Biofarmitalia develops new technologies for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications. The project was aimed at managing IT infrastructure used for quality control analysis integrating 18 types of equipment (PHmeters, scales, HPLC, GC, Spectrophotometer, TOC Analyzer, conductivity, moisture analyzer, refractometer, polarimeter, water analyzer). All analysis data is collected according to data integrity, CFR21, and GAMP5 compliance.

New Baggage-Handling System at Large International Airport

Brock Solutions worked with the Dublin Airport in Dublin, Ireland, to replace the airport’s baggage handling system in Terminal 2. Brock was able to complete this upgrade on schedule and on budget. Brock believes this is the largest Ignition airport baggage handling system in the world. The airport has been so pleased with the project, it’s planning to work with Brock to add more solutions built on the Ignition platform.

Building Management at Largest Data Center Campus in Italy

This project provided Aruba with an advanced real-time monitoring and control system for its new Global Cloud Data Center (ANSI/TIA 942 Rating 4 compliant), the largest data center campus in Italy (200.000 sqm).

Edge and MQTT Help Convert Toxic Gas to Sulfur

Streamline Innovations operates natural gas treating units in South and West Texas that convert hydrogen sulfide (H2S) into fertilizer-grade sulfur. Hydrogen sulfide is an extremely toxic, explosive chemical found in most natural gas.

More Data for State’s First Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Treatment Plant

This was a SCADA project for the first membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plant in the state of Arkansas. The City of Decatur’s plant treats water from municipal, industrial, and commercial sources. The new SCADA system provides the Utilities Department with real-time decision-making data it had never had before.

Cloud, Edge and More Enable a Fast Solution for Numerous Sites

ARB Midstream acquired a new pipeline asset which includes 36 RTUs and central gathering locations. As part of the agreement, ARB was required to completely take over pipeline SCADA in four months. Challenged with this aggressive schedule, ARB contracted Industrial Networking Solutions (INS) to deliver a SCADA solution offering cloud-based reporting, management, visibility, control, and a communications network with failover capabilities and store-and-forward technologies.

New Mobile Capabilities Bring More Data to Decision-Makers

San Bernardino County in Southern California was looking for its next-generation visualization and control system for its landfills. Piloting the San Timoteo Landfill allowed SCS Remote Monitoring and Control (SCS RMC) and Corso Systems to provide major upgrades, use a flexible, scalable platform including Ignition 8 and Ignition Perspective, and integrate next-generation options such as 3D imaging from drones and virtual reality (VR).

More Than 30 Solar Sites on One Platform

This project for Ecoplexus was the creation of a standardized, customizable system designed to handle the needs of large-scale solar and energy projects that are capable of deep data acquisition and manipulation, and most importantly, control. This new system for Ecoplexus culminated in the creation of NextDAS, a ground-breaking operations and management platform that is completely Ignition-based.

Improving Product Quality and Quantity

The project applies a SCADA system for controlling, visualizing, and data acquisition for an automatic batch system, joining the three areas of the process: nutrition, production, and operation. The objectives of the project were to reduce production time, production cost, and waste of raw material — improving the product quality and quantity.

Meeting 21 CFR 11 Standards for Pharma

Bachem Americas, a pharmaceutical company, designed and built a new cleavage unit for its chemical process at its Vista, Calif. facility. Inductive Automation’s Ignition software was used as a uniform HMI for the cleavage unit control system to provide fast and reliable access for monitoring data and sending commands securely.

Fueling Planes at America’s Eighth-Largest Airport

The Ignition project controls the entire fuel farm at the airport. The project was designed to acquire highly accurate SCADA information from the fuel farm and provide an HMI that is operator friendly. This allows the operator to easily identify and correct any issues that arise on the fuel storage and delivery system.

Improving Efficiency in Filter Process for Water Utility

To increase flow rates at its water treatment plant to meet rising demand, the City of Hot Springs needed to upgrade its antiquated filter controls as well as the filters themselves. Brown Engineers helped the City use its recently installed Ignition SCADA platform to dramatically improve the automatic backwash process, conserve water, improve water quality, and initiate collection of filter data needed to extend regulatory run-time limits.

Water Agency Gets Unified Platform, Better Reporting, and More

H2O Innovation turned BRPUA’s antiquated, incohesive SCADA system into a new state-of-the-art Ignition redundant SCADA system. A key part of the project gave BRPUA a much faster, easier way to submit reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Other reports were automated as well.

Two Water Agencies Modernize and Expand Their SCADA Systems

This is a modernization project, as two water agencies moved from old systems to new ones. The two neighboring water agencies have been so pleased with initial results, they are expanding on Ignition to include more of their operations.

Collaboration Brings Unified Platform for New Food-Production Plant

JTM Food Group challenged ECS Solutions and Blentech to create a SCADA system that included the full spectrum of process automation for its new state-of-the-art production facility.

World's Largest Yogurt Plant Streamlines Clean-In-Place

Operators in Chobani’s KDB control room are tasked with scheduling 150 possible washes on the 18 available lines of the centralized CIP system. They must prioritize certain washes for critical lines, schedule time for wash validations, and quickly deal with changing schedules and other interruptions. Chobani operations approached its automation department and asked for a software scheduling solution. The automation department immediately suggested Ignition and talked to Tamaki about integrating the solution.

Industry 4.0 Closes the Gap Between Customer and Supplier

This project connected Shopify’s e-commerce storefront ordering process directly to YourCoffee’s production floor. Using Ignition SCADA with web services APIs and Beckhoff PAC-based factory automation platform, ESM Australia delivered YourCoffee the Industry 4.0 tools to connect, evaluate, structure, and control information and physical processes — enabling it to achieve highly dynamic production goals, without limits.

Improving Productivity for Dana Incorporated

This project was developed to provide real-time statistical analysis and visualization of machine data to allow for better and faster decision-making concerning performance and efficiencies. The project also needed to be flexible enough to adapt to future needs of the client company, Dana Incorporated.

Animal Nutrition Producer Sees Benefits Throughout Facility

The project uses Ignition Vision Modules to develop a custom Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution. Ignition delivers information that enables the optimization of production activities from order launch to finished goods. Using current and accurate data, the system initiates, responds to, and reports on plant operations as they occur.

Analyzing Plant-Design Scenarios

For this project, ANDRITZ Automation used Ignition to create an engineering tool that performs detailed analysis of the preliminary design of a plant. ANDRITZ creates an engineering design model of the plant in its proprietary simulation software called IDEAS. Then, Ignition controls the execution of a multitude of design scenarios and aggregates the results for the user, graphically presenting the impacts of design choices on parameters like plant throughput and energy consumption.

Improving Real-Time and Historical Knowledge with MQTT

Magnetrol is a global level and flow solutions provider. The company wanted to leverage the native intelligence that was built into its Smart Level transmitter products but was left stranded in the field. The goal was to use IIoT technology to access information from Magnetrol devices in a cost-effective manner. Magnetrol wanted to get the data into an easily accessible infrastructure — to help transform its “reactive” service model to a “proactive” model.

Making Data Available Across Several Divisions

Kinetrex contacted Miller-Eads Automation to request a proposed solution. After investigating the problems caused by the combination and limited functionality of the many software packages, Miller-Eads presented a proposal using Ignition to integrate the many types and versions of software and expand the overall system’s capabilities.

Greater Accuracy Monitoring Gas Usage in Bangladesh

The HIT System is an Ignition-powered application designed to facilitate more accurate gas utilities monitoring in Bangladesh. It includes a CRM for managing customers as well as a data storage and analysis portion that runs against incoming gas usage statistics.

Complex SCADA Migration on a Huge Scale

This project was done for Pioneer Natural Resources. It involved the migration of a legacy SCADA system to the Pioneer Enterprise Ignition SCADA System and integrating the asset with Pioneer Corporate Applications.

Ignition Aids Major Growth for Food-Industry Leader

SugarCreek is a very large, dynamic, growing food manufacturer which requires plant-floor data to allow Operations to identify and solve problems across six manufacturing sites. Over the past few years, Ignition has enabled SugarCreek to collect and analyze new levels of data with significant results including cost savings and improved efficiency.

SCADA and More for Eight Road Tunnels

Bouygues Energies & Services is using Ignition in several capacities as part of its project for the L2 bypass in Marseilles. Bouygues created the Centralized Technical Management (CTM) system with Ignition and Siemens PLCs. The system keeps eight road tunnels under constant surveillance along their entire length of 6.2 miles. CTM processes data from over 12,000 I/O control points and more than 120,000 tags.

Two Customers See Big Improvements, Can Share Data

The Mountain Regional Water District (MRW) and the city of Park City both wanted to improve their HMI/SCADA systems. Each was seeking a more reliable and robust HMI that could provide good data visibility, alarming, and expandability at an affordable cost. Further on in the project, there became a greater need to share data between the two entities and run automated reports.

System-wide SCADA Migration Brings Greater Capabilities and Lower Costs

Brown Engineers replaced CAW’s obsolete, clunky and expensive SCADA system with a secure, future-proofed, Ignition-based system that has two master control points and allows full use of all operational data collected.

Improving Efficiencies at Two Facilities While Creating Standards for a Third

This project by Automation Solutions Ecuador (ASE) applied a SCADA system for controlling and visualizing the batch dosing process, which is the first-step process for animal food production. The Batch Dosing System accomplishes this and also registers all raw material consumption at two production facilities. The Batch Dosing System also controls the inventory of raw material in the hoppers. It records the consumption of raw material by indicating the lot from which the raw material is coming.

Custom Ignition Drivers for Plex and SAP Improve Inventory Accuracy

This project features automated recording in an ERP system using custom Ignition drivers and screens for Plex and SAP.

Less Paper and More Data for Better Decision-Making

JLG Industries wanted to standardize on one software platform for the entire manufacturing plant — a platform that would unify existing applications and devices, eliminate paper forms, provide historical data storage, and provide MES capabilities.

Building a Data-Rich Manufacturing Operations Management System

This project was a manufacturing operations management system created for aerospace research. The system was built using the standard Ignition product, without any third-party modules. The result was a data-rich, non-restrictive system.

Connecting Numerous Systems for a Brighter Solar Future

This project involved working with Canadian Solar to create CSEye — a custom hybrid asset performance monitoring and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) application for the solar photovoltaic (PV) operations & maintenance sector of the renewable power-generating market.

A Variety of Improvements for Solar Plant

The need is to monitor in real-time the photovoltaic (PV) plant equipment to ensure high availability. This includes more than 1,700 trackers which need to be perfectly oriented. Another need is to control the performance of the PV plant.

Beyond Customer Expectations for a Fraction of the Typical Cost

This was a SCADA/HMI pilot project for automated statistical process control (SPC) with in-line data capture of incoming and outgoing quality of vehicle-door and hood-gap measurements using wireless digital calipers. The customer — a large automobile manufacturer — was seeking a solution that would help it improve the manual process of measuring door and hood gaps by team members on a moving assembly line.

Greater Access to Info Across 22 Data Centers

This project was a colocation data center HMI for electrical power distribution, thermal management and capacity planning. It provides navigation, equipment detail, history, trending, notifications and alarms.

Visualizing Data for Improved Repeatability

RollDVR provides deep-drill click visualization and analysis of roll manufacturing wind-in and wind-out properties. The project allows roll build replay with direct association of machine process points, recipe settings, and time series charting using a slider on a scaled vector graphic to select point-of-time for display. Through the use of a best-fit algorithm, roll-to-roll process point comparison is available to assist in root cause analysis.

SCADA Solar Energy System Improves on Industry Status Quo

Vertech built a SCADA solar energy system with Ignition, providing cutting-edge, user-friendly monitoring and control of five utility-scale solar power plants.

Ignition Helps Huge Company Empower Thousands of Users

This project is for LafargeHolcim’s Technical Information System (TIS). The TIS software will become the primary place to access industrial performance information for the cement branch of the company. The aim is to have 30,000 employees using it. The goal is to have a very high level of user interface, with no training needed.

Large Plant Sees Numerous Improvements from Switch to Ignition

The purpose of this project was to swap out the site’s previous SCADA system with Ignition. The site previously used 23 servers to run its SCADA system; the Ignition system now uses four. The site previously ran on Windows, but as a part of this upgrade the SCADA system (servers and clients) is exclusively running on Linux. This has provided a lot of flexibility to tailor the system architecture to the site’s needs.

Detailed Simulation Greatly Improves Training

There are a variety of limiting factors with traditional hands-on equipment training. Most pieces of equipment are not built for the constant repetition required in a classroom or hands-on training environment. In most cases, the number of students exceeds the available equipment — so training is often done in stages rather than in sequence. In addition, valuable and strategic training time is often restricted by the setup and tear-down time. Weather delays are a continual problem for in-the-field, hands-on training. The use of hazardous chemicals and disposal are of real concern as well as the filling and phasing on and off of various component systems such as hydraulics or tank fills. These are all issues that limit the actual training time.

Power Plants Get Data to Central Agency via Ignition

The Control Center of Energy (CENACE) is responsible for coordinating the power system’s operations in terms of security, quality and economy. As a result, CENACE requires information from all plants of energy generation for coordination, monitoring and real-time control of the National Interconnected System. To fulfill the purpose of transmitting information to CENACE, the Electric SCADA Project For the Thermal Power Plant of Manta was developed.

New SCADA Provides Numerous Benefits While Keeping Legacy Hardware

The client has an aging system, Siemens FactoryLink, that is at the verge of discontinuation, and they must be upgraded to one that is currently supported while also bringing upon improvements to rationalize the cost of the change. The challenge is to create a system that is able to tie together all the legacy devices with their wide range of configurations and transition to Ignition within a set of defined phases.

Real-Time Data Easily Shared for Oil Well Testing

PROS, a Professional, Reliable Oilfield Service company, provides third-party oil well testing services. PROS needed a way to collect and store this data accurately and efficiently. Tyrion Integration provided a cloud-hosted web application to provide real-time remote monitoring and control of each unit. This was accomplished with the use of Tyrion’s Nucleus and a combination of Ignition Gateways. Nucleus is a new device created by Tyrion Integration that takes the place of a cellular modem, PLC, industrial PC, and HMI.

Ignition Makes Data from Multiple Sites Available in One Place

Gente Oil’s SCADA system is a centrally managed system of the oil process from extraction to transportation. The SCADA allows users to visualize and interact with the different instrumentation and actuators involved in the process.

Solving Several Problems for Water/Waste Water Plants

In 2015 we built new pumping stations for waste water. At the same time the decision was made to upgrade the existing SCADA and PLC systems. The old SCADA system was installed in the late ‘90s and PLC systems were built with technology from the ‘80s with a serial communication interface. The requirement was that the new system would be able to handle even the old PLC systems and spread the investment costs for upgrading. At the same time, a fiber network covering the entire county was built.

Water Authority Leverages Ignition for Faster Processes & Lower Costs

The Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority operates a Collection and Distribution (C/D) system of approximately 30 sites, consisting of waste water lift stations, water wells, storage tanks and booster pump stations serving approximately 3,500 homes and businesses in an eight-square mile area south of Denver, Colorado. The system uses over 30 Rockwell programmable controllers at each site communicating to three Master Terminal Units via serial radios which transmit data across Ethernet radio to a Master PLC, using over 300 message instructions.

Unique White Box Quickly Reveals Valuable Data

Ignition is used in 11 of the top 50 craft breweries in the United States, yet most of the other breweries have not heard of Ignition. The White Box was developed as the culmination of a nationwide craft brewery campaign that targeted the top 200 craft breweries in the country. The goal was to show off the power of Ignition on a self-contained White Box in an unobtrusive, plug-and-play installation on a bottling or canning line.

Ignition Solves 11 Key Problems

Thanks to the Ignition implementations, now the plant operator has all the information and control that he/she needs in only one easy-access and high-reliability system. Also, laboratory, supervision and management personnel have access to historical and real-time production data, production quality, historical users’ operations, and a high quantity of reports that make the decision-making process easier than before.

Greater Access to Data with Ignition

The bottling line and racking line application allows operators to select brands, tank sources and pathways to bottle beer from. Through Ignition scripting, the application checks whether the tank is ready and meets requirements for bottling and racking.

KTrack Helps Grain Facilities with Traceability & Inventory

KTrack helps grain elevators meet traceability requirements and improve inventory management. KTrack is software from Konnection, a division of Kasa Controls & Automation. Konnection provides automation, data collection and other software solutions across many industries, including grain handling. KTrack is Konnection’s first off-the-shelf product offering. It’s an untraditional Ignition project in that there are no devices, PLCs, motors, or sensors to control; there are only a few memory tags.

Ignition Enables Data Collection, Analysis, and Much More

Ignition is being used as an Industrial Information System and allows Constancia to obtain KPIs for daily production, maintenance, downtime, and equipment operation. It helps the production team to quickly find problems that prevent it from achieving optimal production.

Greater Mobility, More Data, Less Paper

The project was aimed at quickly collecting work-order data from the shop floor and communicating it to the company’s ERP system. The goal was to react faster to delays or unforeseen events. To accomplish that it was necessary to adopt a scheduling process supported by software, to give operators an integrated system to collect data on mobile devices.

Control Systems Upgrade for NASA Space Simulator

This was a control systems upgrade for the space simulator, which is a joint venture of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology.

Ignition Addresses Numerous Issues, Saves Money

With Ignition, one person was able to create all the screens, in addition to his regular workload. No integrator was needed. Numerous projects were done using concepts of high-efficiency HMI including sparklines, analog indicators, radar plots and varying screen levels.

Ignition Improves Nuclear Measurement System

This device runs 24/7, gathering measurement data from two types of detectors that measure radioactivity in the area. It performs sophisticated spectroscopic analysis on the measurements, which both identifies what radioactive isotopes are producing the radiation and how intense the activity is. This data is then sent back to our Horizon supervisory software for recoding in the historical database and display of alarms and data to the user.

Developing Dynamic Material Management in Ignition

Pinnacle Foods Group requested a batch-driven method for ‘kits’ to be created, inventoried, and consumed into the production batch. Every ingredient is required to be traced from the warehouse, to the kit, and into the batch. The material management system includes barcode-based scanning and printing, allergen compatibility control, and dynamic inventory management.

Safer Roadways with Active Warning System

The RIAWS (Rural Intersection Active Warning System) project was conceived as a means to reduce the speed of vehicles on the main road as they enter a rural intersection where there is another vehicle approaching from a side road that presents a potential collision hazard.

Building Materials Facility Goes 3D with Ignition

We wanted to validate that we could write a 3D CAD application under the Ignition platform. The MineCAD application was selected for this project. This application is currently used by the quarry manager at the plant to validate the mining blasts chemistry, to refine the quarry model, and to update the topography. The biggest challenge on this project was to implement and use the JavaFX API with Ignition. With the help of Inductive Automation, a new Ignition component was created and added to the designer.

600 Plant Managers & Experts Unified Through Ignition

The main application has three main workflows: 1) The missions, which are requested by plant managers (help, assistance, technical studies); 2) the activities (who is working on which subject); and 3) the timesheets, which now show what has been done before together with what will happen, in order to avoid duplicate entries and to provide a real-time forecast.

Modern & Intuitive User Interface for Hospital in Italy

The system integrates products from different vendors using standard communication protocols. The graphics capabilities of Ignition and experience of PB Automation lead to the creation of a user interface (HMI) which is simple, intuitive, and at the same time, very complete. Navigating between pages is simple, and in case of an alarm, is possible to reach the detail page with very few operations.

Rapid Development for Natural Gas Utility

The methanization plant at Aguas Andinas’ Planta La Farfana waste water treatment plant in Santiago, Chile, generates high-BTU natural gas derived from anaerobic digester gas. The natural gas is piped to Santiago’s gas utility, Metrogas, which provides it to area homes and businesses.

Unlimited History & Expandable SCADA

Sinton’s Dairy had several localized SCADA/HMIs that could not connect or share information with different parts of the plant. Operators were constantly having to jump from system to system in order to monitor and control the piece of the plant that they were operating. This brought about problems with tracking down and solving process issues because none of the historical data in these systems could be shared or used outside of the localized HMI. In order to improve usability and expedite problem solving, Sinton expressed the need for a centralized SCADA/HMI system.

Andritz Automation Builds a Full-Fledged Virtual Plant

The Ignition application itself is primarily an HMI for an entire pulp mill. It spans all main process areas, except for the recovery boiler. The application is composed of 71,512 tags, 107 distinct displays, and 2,333 alarms. Parameterized popups are, of course, used extensively and are available for every motor, valve, and control loop. The training functions are built into the same application and are a straightforward database application with SQL Server as the database.

Ashley Automation Boosts Efficiency

Ashley utilized the Ignition platform to facilitate everything from the local HMI, data transfer to a remote facility, data aggregation at the remote facility, and display of the information to the customer.

Energy Company Fits Unique SCADA Platform Nationwide

The project was a challenge itself, mainly due to the lack of clear requirements at the beginning, as well as to the large number of stakeholders involved. On the other hand, our expertise was in industrial automation and we had never thought of dealing with systems such as street lighting.

ILS Automation Develops SFC & Diagnostic Toolkits

Find out how ILS Automation developed new Ignition modules for ExxonMobil that extend the power of SCADA applications in oil and gas facilities.

Thousands of Sites & Millions of Tags Easily Managed

Pioneer created a corporate SCADA group tasked with leading the development of an enterprise-class SCADA system that manages 40,000 devices (PLCs, Pump off Controllers, Embedded Control), 4-6 million tags, 14,000 sites across 2,000 unique users. Ignition was selected as the platform and Trimax Systems was selected to lead the development.

Meeting a 30-Day SCADA Configuration Deadline

Thanks to Ignition, Brown met that 30-day challenge on time and under budget—while delivering unexpected value and high-end features: Remote monitoring and control functionality, automated email/text alert management, historical data management, and unlimited data points and view clients.

Ignition Brings Control, Flexibility to Energy Management Software

In 2009, Cofely began using SCADA software to help businesses and local authorities manage, control, and analyze energy consumption data. But a few years later, the company faced a project that required more capabilities than any traditional SCADA software could provide. That’s when Cofely began a search that led to the software that is now the corner-stone of its energy monitoring and control system: Ignition by Inductive Automation®.

ILS Automation

ILS Automation serves laboratories that perform many experiments to develop and understand biological processes. The goal of these experiments varies but usually involves optimizing strain and operating conditions to increase yield. In addition, some product may be extracted for downstream process development, such as separation. Also, batch data is slightly different than a continuous process in that the absolute time is not as important as batch age, where batch age usually starts after inoculation. Several real-time or historical batches are compared simultaneously.

Moving a Legacy System Over to Ignition

The project involved porting a Citect SCADA platform project based on TOP Server as the OPC server. The Citect system is a legacy system with various iterations enhanced over time by various parties. Each party had their own methodology, naming conventions, and standards for graphic objects. The goal of the port was to move the entire legacy system to Ignition, and, as part of the process, normalize the tag tree and naming conventions with uniform HMI navigation behavior. As there was no overall documentation for the legacy system, the port consisted of reverse-engineering the entire Citect system. Due to this, for functional validation to be effective, the ‘new’ Ignition windows had to contain graphics objects with a look, window placement, and behavior equivalent to the Citect system.