Build-a-Thon: 2025

Ignition as a Product Design Development Tool

In this session Chris Taylor of X-Windpower will discuss his use of Ignition as a design development and verification tool in the energy industry. In order to remain in control of wind turbines different strategies need to be employed to account for many unpredictable forces such as wind speed, duration, and rotor speed. Learn how Ignition and python scripting were used to maximize the yield of the wind turbines by creating a continuous data stream.

Hello AI, Meet Ignition: Leveraging LLMs in the Ignition Ecosystem

Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance the Ignition platform in practical, effective ways. This session will introduce approachable methods for integrating LLMs into your industrial systems — no advanced AI expertise required. Learn how to use LLMs to streamline development, generate insights from historical data, automate repetitive tasks, and improve operator interfaces. We’ll walk through client use cases, development tools, and project management examples to show how LLMs can add value without adding complexity.

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Strategies for SCADA Systems

SCADA systems can become complex and unwieldy when managed by numerous engineers or when ownership changes through acquisitions. In this session we will focus on strategies and implementation methods for using Ignition to transform disorganized systems into standardized, efficient operations. This presentation will cover best practices from small, unique projects to large-scale projects with multimillion-tag counts. Highlighting the similarities and differences between these types of projects, this session emphasizes the importance of standards in data modeling and a robust validation and verification process. Implementing these techniques enhances system performance, reduces costs, and increases user confidence — all of which are critical for the successful delivery of projects of any size to clients and stakeholders.