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Main Keynote: Elevating Automation
Colette Matthews
Tue, 10/31/2023 - 10:53
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!
Transcript:
00:05
Colby Clegg: Wow. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:11
Colby Clegg: Wow. Wow. What an incredible start yesterday. In 11 years of doing this, I don't think we've ever had a first day quite like that. From morning to night this place was packed with people talking, connecting, and reconnecting. It was really amazing. And I think almost two-thirds of you are here for the first time, so I'm sure yesterday really gave you a sense of what ICC is all about. Well, I'll tell you what, we've squeezed more people than ever before into here. And although I don't think we succeeded in pushing the walls out, we have broken it down virtually and are streaming this in real time for the first time ever. We have people participating this week from all over the world: from South Africa, South America, Europe, Middle East, Australia. But I think the current leaders on my longest voyage travel board scoreboard, which I do keep track of, are our friends from Element8 in South Africa with 34 hours of travel to be here.
01:18
Colby Clegg: So if you can beat that, let me know and I'll go update the board, but I'm not sure anyone will. So whether you've come from near or from far or are joining us virtually today, I just wanna say once again, welcome and thank you for making the effort to participate because I'm confident with the content and the activities that we have lined up, this is really gonna be the best ICC ever. Alright, so it's been quite a year, hasn't it? Who had AI dominates the world on their 2023 bingo card?
01:49
Colby Clegg: But don't worry, I'm not gonna talk about AI, although that would be the cool thing to do. Sorry. But I do wanna highlight how I think it represents something really important. To me what it represents is a continuation of the trends, the discussions that we've been having for years. A lot of these technologies that we've been discussing that are starting to reach a level of utility and practical application that's starting to create a lot of attention. And it's starting to create a real sense of urgency around us.
02:19
Colby Clegg: Consider a couple recent quotes. "There is no alternative to Digital Transformation," says Jeff Bezos. "Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves, and those that don't adapt will fail." That's dramatic. "The next five years... " Oh, this is from Saul Berman from IBM, also says, "The next five years will be more disruptive than the last 15. This is not business as usual. A lot of technology that came in three years ago doesn't work anymore." Okay, well, despite all the hand-wringing, a lot of companies haven't taken action yet. A recent survey on Digital Transformation says that 90% of CEOs believe that the digital economy will impact their industry, and yet less than 15% are executing a digital strategy. Well, we all know that technology progresses at an exponential rate, and we're getting to the point where companies that have embraced Digital Transformation are really starting to distinguish themselves from those that haven't.
03:21
Colby Clegg: Now, I'm not trying to flatter you, but I do believe if you're joining us this week you're among the more forward-thinking companies in the world. That said, we all have different situations and are in different places. Our goal with this conference, as always, is to help you wherever you're at to fall on the productive side of that urgency, to help you start, continue, or elevate your Digital Transformation journey. And that's because no matter where you are, we are at a point in time where the technology ecosystem available to us, combined with the needs, the factors driving the need for Digital Transformation are creating an environment ripe for making real and lasting change.
04:04
Colby Clegg: Okay, but how do we get started and how do we make that change lasting and successful? At Inductive Automation we have an opinion, and it's a very strongly held one. We firmly believe that lasting change isn't forced from the top down, but it grows from the bottom up. As a company with roots in industrial integration, this is the story we've lived. This is how we've built everything from the ground up. We've continued that path as we've grown our company, cultivating the world's best integrator program, and then working with companies and partners to develop technologies and standards, and models that make it ever easier, more practical to move data upwards and into higher-order applications. Doing this and creating real value at every step of the way is how real Digital Transformation happens.
04:56
Colby Clegg: What do I mean by creating value at every step? Well, we can look at how we built Ignition, for example. We started by unlocking data with unlimited licensing. Then we added distributed functionality with our gateway network. After that, we introduced MQTT in partnership with Cirrus Link launching IIoT and edge data collection, which has now led to massive unified data systems. Most recently we introduced Ignition Cloud Edition to add one more building block to take things to the next level. But these are only tools. The next and most significant layer of value are the applications created on them, and that's where you come in. More than ever before, you, the community, are elevating automation through the incredible applications that you're building. Today, you are elevating your enterprises on a global scale, using tools from edge to cloud to deliver value layer by layer to build systems that introduce new operating paradigms.
06:01
Colby Clegg: Along the way we at Inductive Automation are working every day to elevate ourselves so that we can be there to support you in the best way possible. Have you started getting an idea of why we chose "Elevate" as this year's theme? This one word perfectly captures the mission that we are all on across their companies, across the technology, and across the world. It's an open invitation to consider what we're doing and what we can do to raise the bar in an ecosystem where there's virtually nothing stopping us except for our imaginations.
06:35
Colby Clegg: This morning we're gonna go on a journey through many incredible examples of how this Ignition community and our company are elevating industrial automation. You'll hear from Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky about how this community is leveraging all of the tools I just mentioned to build applications and solutions that are truly next-level. You'll hear from Carl Gould, Kat Jeschke, and myself about how our company is elevating our efforts to support, to continue to open up this incredible technology ecosystem to you through Ignition. Ultimately, this is a team effort and you'll see many members of Inductive Automation and this community highlighted this morning. In fact, every single one of you is a participant in this story. And I hope that our discussion this morning will inspire you to take this theme to heart as we dive fully into ICC. So with that, let's begin.
07:38
David Grussenmeyer: The Ignition community is really a remarkable community.
07:41
Jacqui Leake: They help us by sharing best practices, giving us regular feedback on the product.
07:46
Mara Pillott: I see a lot of just amazing and innovative ideas out there, but the really important part is that they're sharing those ideas and talking about them.
07:54
Madison Knowles: Our customers are taking those things and saying, "Hey, we need this. Let's talk on the forums. Let's build Exchange resources."
08:01
Daniel Forbes: Having the ability to share information, share knowledge, really helps accelerate development. It really helps accelerate new ideas.
08:10
Vannessa Garcia: Yeah, I'm consistently impressed by just the creativity of the community when it comes to the applications that they're building with Ignition.
08:18
Annie Wise: The Ignition community elevates the automation industry by its consistent transformation. This is a group of incredibly bright people that are asking, "Can we do this differently? Should we do this differently? And how can we make our customers have a better experience?" And that outlook, that approach is shaping our industry at large.
08:36
Laura Duckett: Sharing ideas, asking questions, encouraging conversations, that's gonna benefit all of us. It's really our combined knowledge that's going to elevate the automation industry.
08:49
Arnell Ignacio: The Ignition community has elevated the automation industry by developing some of the most amazing and innovative applications that we've seen today. They're finding solutions to everyday pain points, and they're figuring out what can be done with the software, Ignition.
09:03
David Grussenmeyer: Seeing their interaction through our partner programs or through our events or conferences has been something really remarkable.
09:09
Don Pearson: They're able to say yes, they're able to do more. They're able to really accelerate the plans of those end-user customers to make their Digital Transformation happen, to make their deployments happen, to solve their problems.
09:23
Kathy Applebaum: And you would think these people would be competitors, but they've realized that by helping each other, they make more jobs available and more interesting jobs available.
09:39
Travis Cox: Man, good morning everybody. How y'all doing today? Alright. Man, I'm excited to be back in ICC again. Yesterday was so much fun. There was so much energy out there. I'm sure y'all felt it. And this, Colby said, "This is what ICC is all about." It's been a year now that I've been in my new role here, and as part of my job I get to introduce Ignition to new people all the time. And during that I have to answer one really important question: Wha the heck is Ignition? Now, I've answered that question thousands of times over the years and that question's evolved over the years as well, but it's actually a pretty hard question to answer, right? From the beginning, we've talked about Ignition as being The New SCADA, right? It's SCADA, but there's so much more that's possible with that.
10:22
Travis Cox: Today we talk about it as an industrial application platform, one where you can build any kind of application out there from HMI, SCADA, MES, IIoT, and a lot more. But how do you encapsulate? How do you explain all that Ignition can do? It's been difficult. So that's why this year we launched a social media campaign to help get your answers to that question. And we got a lot of responses back, and we can tell in those responses how passionate you guys are about Ignition. We can see the impact that Ignition has had on the applications that you all are building. And we can see that your unique perspective that you bring to what Ignition means. And what I wanna do this morning is actually share a couple of those responses with you. So the first is: Ignition SCADA is a software platform used to build and deploy industrial automation and control systems. Yeah, absolutely, right? Ignition is a fully integrated asset-monitoring platform. It's an historian. It's an OPC UA server. It's a web server out the box. It's a platform to develop your own module. And this last one is my favorite: Ignition is like magic, but real.
11:32
Travis Cox: And how many of us feel that way about Ignition, right? About how it's been able to help us solve so many unique challenges. I can tell you that it is my partner in crime every day. When I have some challenges I need to be able to solve, I just pop open Ignition, and we take care of it. So, as you can see, we got some really great responses back with this campaign. And despite them all being different, they're all so totally true. And this is why it's so hard to pinpoint exactly what Ignition is because it means a million different things to a million different people. And I love being here at ICC getting your perspective on what Ignition means to you.
12:11
Travis Cox: So Ignition could be HMI software. It could be a SCADA system. It could be a complete IoT infrastructure. It can even be a home automation system. Ignition is what people make with it. And the applications that this community is building it helps shape people's ideas about what Ignition is. And more than that, your ideas are what elevate Ignition to a whole new level, and bringing something that's powerful, that's productive, and that's change-making for all that's using it. This community is building applications that can handle massive amounts of data, that can turn information into real action and insight, that can extend Ignition to brand new use cases that we never thought that were possible, and that can harness the collaborative power of large working groups and this amazing community that we have.
12:57
Travis Cox: And there's no better place, you'll all agree with me, there's no better place to see all of that than right here at ICC. And there's no better place to see all of the amazing applications that you're building than with our Discover Gallery. So if you haven't checked it out, I would highly encourage you to do that. Our Discover Gallery is a video showcase that really shows all the amazing outstanding projects that the community is building, and you can watch those videos while you're here at ICC. You could check it out on the app. You can also go online and check them out too. And we got some fantastic projects this year. Every year, I love being able to share these projects with all of you. But six of them really stood out to us, and those six are the ones that won the Firebrand Award winners, and those that demonstrate excellence in their Ignition project work. So those projects this year are: Vantage Data Centers, Grantek, ESM Automation Systems, Room in the Inn, 2Gi Technologie, and Skellig Automation. Let's give all of these projects a big round of applause.
14:04
Travis Cox: So the Discover Gallery is really a great example of how this community is elevating the industry. And today I wanna focus on four areas of Ignition application development that are helping companies take their operations to the next level. And those areas are scalability, data visualization, extensibility, and collaboration. Let's start with scalability. Every SCADA application has to be able to handle large amounts of data. But how do you build one that effectively manages over five million data points and over 750,000 alarms without compromising ease of use? And that was certainly the challenge that Vantage Data Centers was facing. Vantage Data Centers support some of the world's biggest cloud providers. With expansion to Europe and to Middle East, Vantage was challenged with building a framework and an approach to deploying thousand devices on short commissioning windows and on a massive scale. Ignition scalability was used to meet this challenge using a hub-and-spoke architecture and using Ignition's gateway network.
15:06
Travis Cox: Three layers of gateways were deployed: I/O gateways at the edge to collect data, frontend gateways to allow the user interface, and gateways for regional management. And using the Enterprise Administration Module to interconnect sites, Vantage can see the big picture of all of their data, and they can extrapolate trends, and they can look for areas for improvement. And to make the application easy to use and easy to navigate, they use the Perspective Module to create a universal pop-up that displays data consistently from any device based on the UDT instance. And the application's high-performance screen design enables operators to access data from anywhere with just four clicks.
15:48
Travis Cox: So visualization is a key to understanding and acting on data. If operators can't see their data in real time in the facilities, they can't take action, right? And this is especially important in highly regulated industries like pharmaceuticals. So Merck & Co., Inc., they needed a way to effectively manage alarms at a large scale at their West Point, Pennsylvania, facility. So they brought in Grantek to help. Using Ignition Perspective, Grantek developed a solution that provides alarm monitoring, historization, and management for over 10,000 points. They created a high-density alarm summary view that lets operators see all the relative metadata and all that status in a conveniently docked pane so they can view, they can dispatch, they can acknowledge, and they can annotate alarm events in just seconds. Now Merck Co. operators can turn data into action with the visualization system that gives them exceptional awareness so they can see and react quickly to whatever changes occur.
16:49
Travis Cox: So to effectively manage change, companies must be able to extend their applications. Ignition's extensibility can help by giving companies the tools that they need to meet almost any use case, even ones that we didn't think of. And that's exactly what happened. An example, one of our Premier Integrators, ESM, built for the Creature Technology Company. They needed software to help theatrical technicians create and modify the motion of complex animatronic figures. It is pretty cool. Using Ignition Perspective and studio animation tools, the solution gives operators an easy drag-and-drop interface to link together dynamic movements and functions to create these fluid movements for the figures. We certainly never designed Ignition for this use case. Exactly.
17:39
Travis Cox: But thanks to the Module SDK for Ignition and the ingenuity of the ESM engineers, this Ignition application was elevated to a brand new use case and even helped bring these dinosaurs back to life.
17:54
Travis Cox: So the last aspect of Ignition application development that I wanna explore is collaboration. And perhaps collaboration is the most powerful feature of Ignition because it harnesses the innovative power of this amazing community, where we're creating applications that can really impact people's lives. And that's exactly what it did for Room in the Inn. Room in the Inn works with over a hundred congregations in Middle Tennessee to provide safe shelter, warm meals, and fellowship to people struggling with homelessness. They were dealing with the logistical nightmare of using outdated software and spreadsheets to coordinate the work of over 13 shelters, over a hundred congregations, and thousands of homeless participants and volunteers. They needed one system to streamline their operation, but to do that they needed a team of integrators and they needed software, which of course they didn't have, and they didn't have a budget to go out there and spend millions of dollars to get something that they actually needed.
18:52
Travis Cox: But that's when a group of volunteers from this community offered their time to help. Using Ignition's ability to support concurrent designers and create and share project resources through the Ignition Exchange, volunteers collaborate in a way that would've been impossible using any other software. Working together, over 150 people from locations around the globe, they joined forces to build the application the Room in the Inn needed. Now, thanks to all of their help, Room in the Inn is better prepared to provide food and shelter to the many people who need it in their area this winter. This project was a true labor of love, and it took the collaborative efforts of hundreds of people from this community to deliver. When you add up all the time and the technology costs that it took to pull this off, it's estimated this project was over $1 million in value. Yet everybody, they provided and worked on and offered their time for free. Now...
19:54
Travis Cox: Exactly.
20:03
Travis Cox: And for all their time and efforts, each volunteer got as much as they put into it... They get a lot out of it as they put into it. Many new resources on the Exchange were created, new skills were learned throughout this process, and stronger connections were forged. All volunteers work not only help Room in the Inn, but they also lift up the project work for all those that took part, and they can take this back to the customers and bring those resources and those examples into these facilities. It was an amazing effort, and we couldn't be more proud of how this community pulled together. Let's give all the volunteers who worked on this project a big round of applause.
20:54
Travis Cox: Now, although we couldn't give every single person a Firebrand Award for this project, we did wanna honor the one person who spearheaded this project, Chris McLaughlin.
21:17
Travis Cox: Chris has been an amazing member of this community for years. And for his effort in leading this project for Room in the Inn, we are giving him a special Firebrand Award for community involvement. Thank you Chris, for all that you do.
21:36
Travis Cox: So this project really inspired us to give back to our local communities because it showed us the good that can come out of the people that share their time and their talents and technology with their neighbors, even if those neighbors are hundreds of thousands of miles away. Giving back to the community has always been an important value of Inductive Automation. And that's why we back in 2014, we launched the Inductive University to freely share knowledge with anyone so they can learn Ignition at their own pace. It's also why we released Ignition Maker Edition a few years ago so that anyone can use it for personal use. But you know what? We also provide free licenses for educational use. But we noticed this gap for nonprofits and for communities that can really benefit from Ignition, and we wanted to do something about that gap. We wanted to fill that gap with the launch of our brand new program, the Community Impact Program.
22:31
Travis Cox: This program will allow individuals to apply for a free Ignition license in order to create a project that benefits their community. And to qualify, people have to show their project benefits the community, that it's noncommercial, and that it's not feasible to do with a commercial license of Ignition. So if you can think of more examples like the amazing project, Room in the Inn, I encourage you all to apply. This program is launched today on our website, so you can go there and you can learn a lot more about it and definitely check it all out. We are honored to be a part of a giving community like this one, and we hope for this new program that we can all work together to help even more people in our local communities enjoy the benefits of Ignition.
23:13
Travis Cox: Another way, like I mentioned, we give back to this community is through that Ignition Exchange. We set up the Ignition Exchange years ago to help our community share resources to make it faster and easier to deploy and build applications. And it's been a huge success. We have over hundreds of resources in there that help people build array of different solutions. It is a powerful resource and it's a one-stop shop for a lot of people to go and get ideas and get inspired for what they can bring into their projects. And we want to enhance that; every year at the conference we want to enhance that experience with the Exchange. We wanna pump it up more. And this year what we did is we pulled together the first-ever ICC Community-Powered Sparkplug Data Dash.
23:55
Travis Cox: Now the Sparkplug Data Dash, if you haven't checked it out, it's upstairs in the tech lounge, it allows participants from all around the world to publish actual machine data and models from the edge to our cloud MQTT server using MQTT Sparkplug. And we have a dashboard up there that shows real visualizations of that data. We are showing the true power of leveraging Ignition and open standards to provide a single source of truth of asset data that is available to anyone and any service that's out there. We're talking about true democratization of data. And we're not just talking about it, we're actually doing it. We're showing real examples of data all around the world coming in there. And this is what Digital Transformation really requires. You need to focus on getting more out of your data rather than locking it down. You need to access data on dashboards no matter where you are in the world, and you need to be able to go further with that data, leveraging ML and AI tools. There's a lot of great tools that are out there today.
24:53
Travis Cox: So I'm excited to say that with this project we had over 50 participants and companies that took part, each contributing unique data models and Perspective templates that are all available on the Ignition Exchange. See, I definitely... And go check out the Data Dash. It is really cool. That's in that tech lounge. So with this, there's nowhere that you can see practical edge-to-cloud examples using actual data with context that is truly scalable. We're showing it with that. We're also talking about a lot here at this conference. For years the industry has been talking about Digital Transformation from with edge-to-cloud technologies, and instead of just talking about it, this community here has making it happen right now. Utilizing Ignition scalability, visualization, extensibility, and collaboration features, this community is elevating the industry with every application that you guys are building. And we're doing everything that we can to help facilitate and help enterprises use the best new technologies to transform their processes. Now to talk more about Digital Transformation, let's bring out our very own, Kevin McClusky.
26:01
Kevin McClusky: Thanks, Travis. Travis shared some great examples of how this community is elevating automation through Ignition application development. And keeping with this theme, I wanted to talk a little bit about another way that we're seeing this community take the industry to the next level by elevating enterprise systems through Digital Transformation. As a side note, I'll say it's really good to be here. It's really good to see all of you. And I know so many of you are doing these types of big enterprise architectures and applications. That part of what I'm talking about here is a big validation for you and for us from what you're doing for us too and for the community. As I'm sure you know, the concept of Digital Transformation, it's pretty simple. It's about using the best digital technology to improve operational technology or operational efficiency basically at its core. In reality, transforming industrial processes can be difficult because information technology and operation technology, as you know, isn't always work built. It isn't always built to work well together between the two. As a result, many companies have been slow to implement Digital Transformation.
27:08
Kevin McClusky: But in the last few years we've actually seen a number of things that have been changing that significantly. Back in 2020 when the pandemic hit, the world changed overnight. My wife and I had just had our first child, and we were at home and I got a call that said, "Don't come back." No, they weren't firing me. As you probably have guessed, I was working from home from that point forward for Inductive Automation for the entire company, and like Inductive Automation companies everywhere we're forced to grapple with this new reality of conducting business remotely and needing to really transform how they worked. Companies frankly had mixed success. We saw that companies that had embraced digital technologies were much more capable of adapting quickly while companies that hadn't, struggled. So the ones that were able to do it quickly, for example, many of our customers, many of you were able to very quickly add the Perspective Module to your installations in order to add remote access or a good option for remote access.
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Kevin McClusky: In fact, we saw sales of that module really increase during the pandemic. Adapting to change is important because the world can change fast, and as Colby mentioned, that pace is increasing. I've experienced this personally as well. Working with some of the leading companies inside the industry and inside the world, it has really shown me one thing. Companies have to keep up with the pace of technology change or they risk being left behind. Companies that combine IT and OT systems with Ignition can turn that noise of millions of data points into a clear, actionable information, and companies that don't use modern technologies can get stuck inside decision paralysis, drowning in rivers of data with no clear direction. In today's technology landscape, it really is sink or swim.
29:11
Kevin McClusky: Peter Drucker said it well: "The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. In a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast." With things moving faster, companies need to safeguard their processes for future-proofing their systems. Today's enterprises need a Digital Transformation strategy that helps elevate their old processes to Industry 4.0 standards. The factories of the future are connected, they're agile, and they're efficient, and they're being built today by members of this community. While the term "Digital Transformation" is far from new, it's actually something that the Ignition Community has been doing for over a decade since the Ignition platform was released.
30:01
Kevin McClusky: At Inductive Automation, I've worked with hundreds of integrators and end users who have transformed their processes using Ignition. And part of what makes Ignition a fantastic Digital Transformation platform is that it combines the best of OT and IT. With Ignition's full suite of products from Edge to Cloud, it can be the Digital Transformation platform for the entire enterprise by connecting people with their processes, their data, and an entire ecosystem of partners, which I'll talk a little bit more about in a few minutes here.
30:33
Kevin McClusky: When enterprises are more connected, they can make better decisions, and they see big gains in productivity and sustainability. And every process can benefit from new technologies, even processes that have existed for decades or more. Let me give you an example from one of this year's Firebrand Award-winning projects. Saint-Gobain PAM is the UK's leading supplier of ductile iron pipe fittings, valves, and secure manhole covers. They date all the way back to 1865. They launched a Digital Transformation initiative and chose their UK facility back in 2020. The 150-year-old plant was chosen to show how modern technologies can elevate long-established processes. The age of the plant presented many challenges to modernization. They used paper-based products which gave rise to inconsistencies and made analyzing production data in real time impossible. Basically clipboards. Their hardware and software obsolescence limited the plant's ability to connect to other systems like their ERP and limits for product traceability hampered quality improvement and data sharing with its customers.
31:45
Kevin McClusky: Saint-Gobain brought in experts 2Gi Technologie to bring their SCADA, MES, track and trace, and quality control systems all onto one universal platform. Ignition's open standards made it possible to easily interface with third-party systems, including SAP and some that even used VAX architectures designed all the way back in the '70s. Ignition was also used to collect scanned RFID tags on the surface of pipes to track production. This allowed operators to track product's locations from start to finish. And Ignition's visualization tools were used to create responsive HMIs for operators to stay in touch on the go. All of this was tested and rolled out without affecting the plant's productivity. With Ignition the people at Saint-Gobain PAM are now more connected to their processes than ever before with a system where they can monitor production data in real time for the first time in the plant's history.
32:45
Kevin McClusky: At the heart of what makes Ignition a great Digital Transformation platform is that it can connect people with their data. Ignition's ability to connect to virtually any data source on the plant floor to the cloud to the edge makes it the ultimate platform to bring all of this data from across the entire enterprise all together. One company that uses Ignition to transform its data management is the Center for Breakthrough Medicines or CBM for short. CBM is a large cell and gene therapy CDMO specializing in end-to-end capabilities for the entire market. They develop and manufacture life-changing treatments, and their work requires a massive amount of data. So they worked with Gold Certified Integrator Skellig to bring a cutting-edge data management system to life using Ignition that leverages Opto 22 groov EPICs for device data, Cirrus Link's MQTT modules for IIoT, and Ignition for visualization and deployment.
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Kevin McClusky: Now CBM scientists can find the data they need easily. By better connecting people to data, CBM scientists can focus on higher-level analysis and research which can improve and save lives. That's it for our Firebrand Award winners, and after seeing all of them, I think you'll agree with me when I say that their excellent work with Ignition is really elevating automation. We already gave them a little bit of a round of applause, but now that you've seen them all, let's give them another hand.
34:25
Kevin McClusky: One of the things I really loved seeing in this year's group of Discover Gallery projects is how many are leveraging our ecosystem of partner solutions to enhance their Ignition systems. By the way, the Discover Gallery is just out there and to the right. I know in years past sometimes folks have missed it, but make sure that you check it out. We have these six projects, and we have many more Discover Gallery projects that are out there as well, which are great videos to watch and experience what some of the rest of the community is doing.
34:56
Kevin McClusky: Bringing together our partners is an important way that we're working to make the Digital Transformation process easier for enterprises. This year, as you can see, we updated our partner programs with the new Solution Partner Program category with companies who offer joint solutions that fully integrate with Ignition, including of course Sepasoft, 4IR, and Opto 22. And just last month we launched our new Alliance Partner Program. Alliance Partners are carefully vetted partnerships that provide valuable products and services that complement Ignition systems. The addition of Alliance Partners to our existing Strategic Partners and Solution Partners gives companies using Ignition a whole world of new solutions to enhance their systems.
35:45
Kevin McClusky: One example is our collaboration with Snowflake. Many of you have talked to us about Snowflake in recent years. As you may know, Snowflake provides a highly scalable cloud-based database platform based on open IT standards. They basically provide elastic data and database storage in the cloud, and they have a slew of offerings surrounding it, including some analytics and machine learning. As part of our collaboration, we've been working with Snowflake so Ignition users can leverage their platform's data and analytics tools by making data ingestion and access in the cloud as easy as working with SQL databases.
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Kevin McClusky: Here's how it works. First, industrial data is pushed from sites and from the edge using MQTT Sparkplug. And after its coming there, data is stored automatically with its context in the Snowflake data cloud using Cirrus Link's new IIoT Bridge for Snowflake. You take your tags, you take your tag providers, you take your UDTs, all of that gets shipped over. After it's set up, it just works. You don't need any scripting for this, and everything just flows, even new data that's added later as it's sent over MQTT. Once the data's in Snowflake, users can easily query it back into Ignition so that they can use it to generate reports, perform advanced analytics, including anomaly detection, and create new applications. If you wanna learn more about how Snowflake and Ignition can be used together, check out the session that Cirrus Link is doing with Snowflake later in the conference.
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Kevin McClusky: Snowflake is just one example of the great partnerships we have in the Alliance Partner Program, and highlighting any of these is an amazing story. I'd encourage you to explore the valuable offerings that these folks have. From pretty much all of our partners here, everyone you see listed on this, our Solutions Partners, our Strategic Partners, we very carefully vet all of our partnerships for folks who are going to be bringing you the community value, and I'd encourage you to talk to all of them. Many of them have booths inside the conference here, and they're all listed on our website as well. The value that they bring to the ecosystem helps elevate all of us, and we truly appreciate that relationship that they have and their passion for our community.
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Kevin McClusky: We built Ignition to be the ultimate hub for plant floor connectivity, but our customers actually found that it does much more than that. Ignition connects more than devices; it connects people with their data, their processes, in this ecosystem of technology partners. By connecting the enterprise Ignition breaks down the barriers between companies and their Digital Transformation goals. It puts the tools in people's hands to elevate their enterprise systems to new heights. And that's part of what I see in the Firebrand Award-winning projects that we just talked about. It turns out we're not the only ones recognizing your work, so is the World Economic Forum.
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Kevin McClusky: The World Economic Forum's Lighthouse Program highlights manufacturers from various industries who have demonstrated front-running leadership in Industry 4.0 innovation. And this year CEAT Tyres was officially certified as a Lighthouse Factory, making it the first tire company in the world to achieve that designation. CEAT Tyres is one of the largest tire manufacturers in India, with multiple plants across the country. Top executives leading the way, Ignition chosen as the base platform, CEAT worked to modernize every aspect of one of their plant's production. With the new system, the plant saw multiple positive outcomes, including reducing its carbon footprint, drastically cutting water and energy consumption, and increased productivity in this plant that already existed with no base machinery changes by an incredible 15%.
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Kevin McClusky: It's an amazing project, and although it wasn't part of the Discover Gallery this year, I wanted to mention it here because their great work is part of leading the way in Industry 4.0 innovation. I also wanted to mention the amazing work of the integrators who worked on the project, expert Ignition integrators Automation Excellence and BASE Automation. We know that behind every Ignition application and enterprise stands a team of dedicated engineers and integrators working hard to transform their companies' and customers' projects. It's your work that's elevating the community, and it's our mission to support you. In this next section of the keynote, we'll look at what Inductive Automation is doing to help elevate the community.
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Jacqui Leake: So we in the Support Division, we're a team of dedicated problem solvers. We're committed to helping our community with the support that they need to be successful. Whether you're a new user or a seasoned professional, we are here to help you get the most out of Ignition.
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Daniel Forbes: I personally work in recruiting, and we really try to build a culture of people that are excited about what we're doing for the automation industry. And so we like to provide information for them, and then when we do interview them, I look for that spark. We look for people that are really excited, that we feel will be a good fit to the culture of Inductive Automation.
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David Grussenmeyer: Just a few months back, we launched the Alliance Partner Program. We partner with companies that offer products or solutions that complement Ignition deployments. We're able to highlight these products or services through co-marketing efforts, and really show our customers and our community how these products or these services together provide a better experience for the end user or for the customer.
41:41
Arnell Ignacio: Luckily, with Ignition, the software pretty much sells itself. Our jobs here in marketing is to inform you of what it can do and to reveal what it does for a lot of our customers.
41:51
Kathy Applebaum: In software engineering, the obvious thing would be that we make it Ignition. But I have to say, I'm secretly really, really proud of our participation on the user forum. So many times I see our developers and myself included, we start every day with that cup of caffeine in hand, and we're going through the new posts on the forum. I see people answering questions about how the software works, how to make it work better. I see them writing tickets for bug fixes for new features all coming through that forum participation.
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Don Pearson: I've actually had a good opportunity this year to spend a lot of time with our Premier Integrators. I get the opportunity to see how we really are elevating the game.
42:39
Carl Gould: Good morning, everybody. So we just had Travis and Kevin share some really incredible examples of the projects from the Discover Gallery, the Firebrand Award winners. And they represent an incredible diversity that is a good... It's emblematory of the kind of projects that are being built with Ignition, and I encourage you all to go and check out all of the projects in the Discover Gallery. There's so many excellent projects in there this year. They're really inspiring, and I really think they're of the highest caliber. And as one of the creators of Ignition, it's really gratifying to see because these projects help to validate one of our core beliefs, which is that it is open platforms that drive innovation. A regular software application can be quite useful; they often are. But ultimately, you might find that they become a bit limiting because they can only offer a fixed set of solutions for what they were originally designed to do, and they may have difficulty adapting to new situations.
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Carl Gould: But a platform can give you the tools that you need to solve new problems in novel ways. And Ignition is set up like this as a platform to make you the innovator so that you can bring your domain knowledge, you can bring your expertise and your creativity to bear on whatever problem it is you're trying to solve. And that's what I see play out every year at ICC, with Ignition being showcased in a variety of fascinating and innovative new use cases across an ever-widening range of industries. I love seeing all that new technology being integrated with the platform, and as Kevin showed, this has now resulted in a growing ecosystem of technology partnerships. These partnerships open up new possibilities for the kinds of applications that you can build with Ignition. Ignition's open nature, its modular architecture and freely accessible SDK, make it readily adaptable to be used with any kind of new technology trend. And sometimes it can be hard to tell where our efforts with the software end and community efforts begin.
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Carl Gould: And as an example of this, with all of the excitement around generative AI this past year, we saw someone on social media commenting about how they don't really know much about Inductive Automation, but from what they could tell we were just completely obsessed with ChatGPT. And we saw this comment, we sort of scratched our chins, and because we found this both amusing and ironic because we haven't done anything with ChatGPT as far as integrating it with the product. So what was this person reacting to? Entirely community-driven efforts, and they couldn't tell the difference between our efforts with Ignition and community integrations. And that's the point, that Ignition is so readily adaptable that it can be used with a new trending technology that can be rapidly and seamlessly integrated.
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Carl Gould: And this type of extensibility is a major advantage for us because we don't have to constantly change Ignition to chase a new technology trend because Ignition is designed to be adapted by the user, by you, so you can integrate it with anything you need to. And this extensibility makes systems built with Ignition remarkably future-proof because you always have endless ways to continue to integrate new solutions into your application, and you can continually bring increasing value at every level of your organization that's using Ignition. For years, we've been improving Ignition's ability to operate at every layer of the infrastructure stack by gracefully integrating at each layer, making the right connections, we're able to create value along the way. It starts at the plant floor with the standard Ignition platform. This is really a home base for us. We're very comfortable here, we connect easily to technologies both on the OT side of the house as well as the IT side of the house, and we are used across the globe to build the common types of applications you find at this layer: HMI, SCADA, MES applications. But we also are used for a number of other applications at this layer that just defy all categorization.
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Carl Gould: A few years ago, we added Ignition Edge. Edge has made it easy to deploy Ignition in remote environments on limited computing infrastructure that can be deployed adjacent to critical assets, and I think Edge and MQTT have really helped bring the promise of IIoT into reality. And earlier this year, we released Ignition Cloud Edition on the Amazon AWS Marketplace, and just last month we expanded the availability of Cloud Edition to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. So I'm really happy that it's now available on both of the major cloud infrastructure providers in our realm. Cloud Edition enables you to augment the capabilities of an Ignition system by leveraging cloud services and easily spinning up elastic cloud architectures.
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Carl Gould: What's cool about Cloud Edition is that it enables you to build applications that can really span the breadth of an Ignition-based organization or an organization that uses Ignition in various places. It can integrate with assets on the plant floor or at the edge of the network, and you can create systems that are really greater than the sum of their parts. It's common for organizations to have Ignition installed in various places, often scattered around geographically, maybe communicating with each other, maybe not. And with Cloud Edition, you can easily spin up a scalable architecture in the cloud, it can securely gather KPIs from all these different facilities, bring them into a unified data model, and present them on a dashboard that can then be accessed securely from anywhere.
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Carl Gould: When we develop Ignition, we follow a pretty simple philosophy. First, make it possible and then make it easy. And Cloud Edition is a good example of this. It's been possible to use Ignition in the cloud for years. Many of you have been doing just that. But with the release of Cloud Edition, we've made it so much easier. We've really improved the user experience and the purchasing model and the ease of implementing these architectures in the cloud.
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Carl Gould: We follow the same approach for product maintenance. Take Perspective, for example, where since the initial release of that module, we've added hundreds of new features and quality-of-life improvements and performance improvements. We even got Phil using it this year so you know it's getting good.
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Carl Gould: This methodical and agile approach helps us get new features into your hands sooner and then just steadily improve them over time. It also helps us respond quickly to security concerns. So every year we participate in this big contest hosted by ZDI, the Zero Day Initiative. This is a conference where security researchers gather and they compete for big cash bounties by finding new vulnerabilities in industrial control systems like Ignition and a bunch of others. And when a new vulnerability arises, as they inevitably do, we often have a patch developed and released within the week, thanks to our agile process and our nightly release mechanism. We consistently impress researchers with the speed of our responses. But this year we've taken a significant step further not just by responding quickly, but also by taking a more proactive approach by securing the development process itself. This year, our company-wide software development life cycle was certified by exida to be compliant with ISA 62443 and ISASecure.
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Carl Gould: These are rigorous standards that set forth the best practices and procedures and policies for the secure design and implementation and deployment of industrial control software, and the certificate is only awarded to companies that pass a strict audit that shows that not only do you have all of these policies and procedures in place, but that they are actually being followed. What this means for you is that it gives your Ignition applications the assurance that they have the strongest security posture possible.
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Carl Gould: Now at this point, some of you might be thinking, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, just tell us about 8.3."
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Carl Gould: I know a few of you might be thinking, "Wait a second, what happened to 8.2?" Good questions. I'll answer them both. So we're skipping 8.2 because even-numbered releases are cursed.
51:14
Carl Gould: No, the reality is a bit more boring. We have a tradition here of having odd-numbered releases come with long-term support. And because of the amount of time elapsed since the initial release of 8.1, we just wanna go straight into another LTS release, so we're calling it 8.3. As for the timeline we are hard at work in it right now, and we expect it to be released in the second half of next year, but it will be worth the wait. We have a lot of really exciting features coming in 8.3. We've got native drawing tools for Perspective. We've got a...
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Audience Member 1: Woo!
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Carl Gould: Yay!
51:46
Carl Gould: Long awaited. We have a new high-performance time-series historian, we've got this really interesting new method for ingesting streaming event data, and I know that was just a tease. So we will be back on this stage, Colby and I, tomorrow morning where we will go into detail about these features of 8.3, give you some sneak peeks of more features, as well as get into some more specifics about that release timeline.
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Carl Gould: But back to the topic of this keynote. 8.3 is going to represent a really substantial elevation of the platform, and I'm thrilled to see what you all build on top of it. We're always amazed by the kinds of innovations you all bring to the applications you build in Ignition, and I know you will all continue to elevate the state-of-the-art of automation to new heights. And to help you do just that, here is Inductive Automation's Chief Operating Officer, Kat Jeschke.
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Kat Jeschke: Hi everyone. I know you've been welcomed a lot by now, but I just wanna say, welcome. Thank you for being here. I wanted to share some company highlights with all of you, as well as some of our accomplishments and our company strategy. But before I go into those, I wanted to share just a little bit of my year with all of you. This year, I got the opportunity to attend conferences with many of you, and it's truly been a highlight of my year. In April we attended the HANNOVER MESSE with three of our international distributors, and it was incredible because we've been to shows in Germany before, but this time was different. The interest from the German market was amazing. We were in nonstop conversations all day long and well into the evening. We also got the chance to visit our Italian distributor EFA and attend SPS Parma. It was such an honor to meet all of our customers in Italy and to see the passion and enthusiasm shared across the globe for our software. These experiences reminded me how our Ignition community isn't just localized to one place, or this conference, but that it's truly everywhere.
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Kat Jeschke: Seeing this community in action is what drives us to be the best company we can be. That mission to be the best came from our founders, Steve and Wendi-Lynn Hechtman, who were driven to build a different type of industrial automation software company. The result of their efforts is what you see today. So last year when the torch got passed to the new leadership team, we all came together and we wanted to continue to carry out that mission, continue to build and grow the best possible company in the industrial automation software industry. And I have to say if you could be a fly on the wall at our leadership summits, you'd be overwhelmed with the sense of purpose, care, and dedication that our leadership team embodies. It is their daily work, ideas, and creative spirit that are the driving force behind Inductive Automation.
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Kat Jeschke: They truly embody our company motto, "Dream It, Do It." This motto isn't just something that we say. It's the creative spirit we strive to foster in our company, and we see examples of it every day. I just wanna highlight a few for you. There's Kevin Collins, who came up with the idea of Ignition Cloud Edition and played a huge role in developing it. And Sabrina Reese, who assembled the product council in software engineering to help steer the direction of Ignition development. And Jessica Geisser, who first thought of using the word "elevate" as the theme for this year's conference. And the incredible HR team who assembled a committee dedicated to keeping our company culture strong. And then there's more than a dozen of members of our software support team who came together to create the first-ever SCADA Arcade, which is a fun way for our support staff to develop their skills. These are just a few highlights of Dream It, Do It. And the reality is, I'm barely scratching the surface of all the talented team members at Inductive Automation that dream up new ideas every single day.
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Kat Jeschke: Working with such talented people is what makes Inductive Automation a great place to work. And we see this clearly reflected in our retention numbers. Our retention numbers are far above industry averages, and much of our company's core staff has been at Inductive Automation since its early years. A great example of this is Jim Meisler. Jim was our first salesperson. He joined Inductive Automation in 2006, and he made hundreds of cold calls to any and all potential customers that would listen to him. Over these years, Jim has worked with thousands of people and helped scores of companies get started with Ignition. I'm sure many of you have probably talked with Jim over the years. In fact, I think it's fair to say that a good part of this audience may not even be at this conference today if it wasn't for Jim and his outstanding efforts. Well, at the end of this year, Jim is retiring. So before he goes, please help me give him a huge round of applause. He's right over there for seven...
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Kat Jeschke: Woo!
57:55
Kat Jeschke: Thank you, Jim. Shifting now to the company strategy. At the beginning of each year we choose a handful of distinct areas that we think are vital for supporting the growth of Inductive Automation and this community. I'd like to take a few minutes here and highlight each one of these areas. I'm happy to say we've made tremendous progress in all of these areas. You've just heard about the product from Carl, and you'll learn even more in tomorrow's Technical Keynote. Suffice it to say though we've done a ton of work on the product this year, and our vision for where we want our software to go is as strong as ever.
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Kat Jeschke: Growing our direct sales to more customers through more verticals has been a strategy for this year. One of the strengths of our company is the fantastic diversity of our customer base. We have thousands of customers, and our largest customer only makes up a very small percentage of our total sales. Having customers spread over hundreds of verticals shows how flexible Ignition is, and it makes our company extremely stable because we're not dependent on any one industry.
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Kat Jeschke: Last year we saw strong growth in automotive, water and wastewater, and energy, and we saw substantial growth in newer verticals like transportation, data centers, public administration, and healthcare. Strong sales across these verticals and many more helped us finish last year with over 30% growth in revenue from the previous year, which continues our trend of strong year-over-year growth dating all the way back to 2010.
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Kat Jeschke: Our channel sales programs continue to develop and we improve them. The program overall continues to grow a very strong rate, and distributors have done more shows and reach more customers than ever before. Our international sales grew by 33%, and today Ignition is being used in 130 countries, and that number continues to grow. We also added a new distributor, Clarion Solutions, which covers the Middle East and North Africa regions. The Integrator Program continues to be one of our key focus areas, and we've seen a ton of great growth in the program this year. We currently have 3,900 integration companies in the program, and since last September we've added 548 new integration firms, and there's five we've elevated to our highest level of Premier. The new Premier Integrators are Tristar Electrical, SAFEgroup Automation, Polaris Automation, Gray Solutions, and AXCEND Automation. Please give them a round of applause.
01:01:11
Kat Jeschke: Another focus area for us is employee development. This year we continued to hire a lot of new employees, bringing our total employee count to 340 total employees. This means we've nearly tripled since 2020, which is incredible. It can be a challenge to grow so quickly and maintain company culture and core values, which is why I'm extremely proud of all the work each division has done to help us stay true to our founding principles. Along those lines we also leveraged our Inductive University platform this year and created a course dedicated to onboarding new employees, and we're gonna continue to expand the series in the coming year. We put a very strong emphasis on employee growth and employee development, which is why I'm extremely proud to let you know we've had nearly 90 internal promotions in the last year. And finally our Educational Engagement Program has continued to grow, and we now have over 100 universities in the program. What's even more exciting is we continue to invest in this program, and we recently created a team that is dedicated to helping create curriculum for schools. So with all these efforts working together, we're striving to make the best possible software, spread it around the world, and create a one-of-a-kind customer experience.
01:02:43
Kat Jeschke: We've always believed that the impact of our software goes beyond what it can do on the plant floor. It extends to the impact it can have on people's lives. The fact is when people buy Ignition they usually have a specific purpose in mind, but then as they start using it, that purpose develops and grows, and it grows well past the original idea. So often what starts out as a solution to one problem grows organically over time to involve an entire plant, region, or even enterprise. This is because Ignition is unlimited both in licensing and functionality, and because it's backed by a company that is driven first and foremost by customer success. Together this can have quite the magic effect on the user, which we've taken to calling "The Ignition Effect."
01:03:41
Kat Jeschke: The best way to understand the Ignition effect is to hear from the people that have experienced it. So we've created a whole new video series that highlights members of this community to show you the impact Ignition has had on their companies, industries, and lives. I'd like to give you a sneak peek of the series now.
01:04:11
Bart Mans: For me, of course, it has a huge effect on my career.
01:04:13
Jerry Eppler: In like eight years I went from... I had never even heard of Ignition to now run a successful business.
01:04:19
Julio Velasco: Now, we've created a powerhouse right with Ignition from people who were straight out of the college.
01:04:24
Chris McLaughlin: If you happen to have even one year of experience actually implementing Ignition, seriously, there will be companies fighting over you.
01:04:32
Will Baker: Our hiring process has changed, where we're specifically calling out Ignition expertise.
01:04:36
Alicia Lomas: It kinda helps my chances of getting somebody excited about the role, being able to tell them that you're gonna be able to develop in Ignition.
01:04:45
J.C. Harrison: You had a lot of people ready for something different in the industrial automation.
01:04:49
Elizabeth Hill Reed: Ignition has allowed us to grow in our solutions that we're able to provide to customers.
01:04:55
Keith Gamble: I was building production applications and something that just came out of its beta.
01:05:00
Remus Pop: We flew out to Arizona on a Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon we had a fully deployed OEE system monitoring four assembly lines.
01:05:07
Steven Downer: We've been able to provide features that are asked for and requested.
01:05:11
Julio Velasco: There was a very solid line between the IT world and the controls world. Now that line is completely obliterated, right? It's gone.
01:05:20
Alicia Lomas: What Ignition did was kind of open up everybody's minds.
01:05:23
Arnaud De Clerck: The only limit is the creativity that you have.
01:05:28
Jerry Eppler: Once they get Ignition in place, it spreads like a virus, but in a good way.
01:05:32
Will Baker: It's changed the way that I communicate with customers.
01:05:34
Keith Gamble: We're really starting to open those doors where clients were previously terrified of custom code and applications that were unsupportable.
01:05:42
Chris McLaughlin: And you put Ignition in there and that changed everything.
01:05:46
Bart Mans: A lot of customers still write things down on paper as spreadsheets, type everything in, and then they do some analysis, and we can automate that.
01:05:53
Chris Taylor: It's about giving value, giving new information, new data, even if a customer hasn't asked for it.
01:06:00
Evelyn Granizo: Before Ignition, the conversation with the customer were about limitation. The question now is, "What problem you need to solve?"
01:06:07
Remus Pop: The customer was so blown away that the next question was, "How fast can you deploy this to the rest of our company?"
01:06:15
Phillip Bourner: Everyone is sharing what they've done in the past, and everyone is taking that, innovating on top of it, making it better.
01:06:21
Arnaud De Clerck: When I saw the feedback on the LinkedIn from someone from Australia that say, "What? My resources is used in Australia? Come on."
01:06:30
Alicia Lomas: It would be kind of interesting to be the customer that kinda push some of these integrators towards Ignition.
01:06:38
Jerry Eppler: Why would you use 10 different pieces of software when none of them do exactly what you want, when you could build it exactly how you want?
01:06:44
Elizabeth Hill Reed: A lot was changing throughout the project, it was a very tight timeline, and I do not think that that project would have been possible without Ignition.
01:06:51
Chris Taylor: I swear we're not supposed to be doing the things we're doing, but Ignition is so flexible, it just allows us to do it.
01:07:00
Jonathan Swisher: Yeah, Ignition is a great solution because it's not tailored to any one industry.
01:07:06
Rob Raffaele: This is fundamentally what I think is a shift and really a game changer in the industry.
01:07:12
Remus Pop: What kinda shocked me a little bit is that Ignition is already almost everywhere, so.
01:07:18
Keith Gamble: Ignition was working its way into that education space, in a place that I don't think two years ago you would have ever seen.
01:07:25
Evelyn Granizo: It was exciting to see new talents being amazed by the power of the tool they were learning at the classroom.
01:07:31
Julio Velasco: His first day back he was like, "Oh, by the way, I finished the Inductive University. When can I get certified?" I was like, "What?"
01:07:40
Bart Mans: We did projects for really big companies in Europe.
01:07:42
Chris McLaughlin: So many people, they come from Australia and India and Sweden and Norway and Ecuador.
01:07:50
Madiha Javed: It's crazy kinda to see how far that software has gone.
01:07:53
Chris McLaughlin: And Canada and Mexico and all over the US.
01:08:00
Courtney Smith: We keep pushing the boundaries of what is actually possible with Ignition. How far can this thing go?
01:08:08
Elizabeth Hill Reed: I was actually the first person at TMC to learn Ignition.
01:08:11
Jerry Eppler: I think I was the first hire to actually go through Inductive University.
01:08:16
Jonathan Swisher: As far as I know, we were one of the first customers.
01:08:18
Bart Mans: I was the first Ignition programmer at the AT Automation.
01:08:21
Will Baker: It was a new world for me. I wasn't taught this stuff in school.
01:08:24
Remus Pop: I just went to Google and I googled off-the-shelf MES.
01:08:27
Chris McLaughlin: When I joined Vertech, they had done zero Ignition projects.
01:08:30
Alicia Lomas: And when the outbreak happened, I was in Italy with an equipment vendor.
01:08:34
Julio Velasco: In the Amazon jungle, teaching Ignition.
01:08:37
Keith Gamble: I knew your entire support staff on a first name basis.
01:08:41
Chris Taylor: That was the point at which I turned to my wife and I said, "We've got a huge opportunity."
01:08:49
Interviewer: What do you think the Ignition effect is?
01:08:53
J.C. Harrison: That's a good question.
01:09:00
Kat Jeschke: Pretty cool, huh?
01:09:07
Kat Jeschke: So The Ignition Effect launched today on our website along with five episodes, and we will release more throughout the year. In this series we documented a lot of incredible effects of Ignition, which all center around how Ignition is helping obliterate the line between IT and OT, to shift mindsets from limitations to solutions and make the impossible possible for people all across the globe. Helping people everywhere, "Dream It, Do It" is why we make software, and it's what drives us to keep elevating our organization. To talk more about how we're doing that, please help me welcome back to the stage Inductive Automation's CEO, Colby Clegg.
01:09:53
Colby Clegg: Thank you, Kat. Thank you. Well, as you can see, we've grown a lot as a company and a community. We're on a path and a trajectory that we've been on for a long time now. And frankly, I see no reason why it should slow down. But we all know, everyone here knows that growth is a challenge. Growth can be difficult. As we grow in resources, in stature, and in reach, there are real difficulties to confront. How do we maintain and scale the true essence of who we are and what you all love about us? How do we grow in sophistication and maturity to serve the needs of the large global enterprises that are approaching us every day now without forsaking the innovative early adopters and the dynamic integrators who have been here to support us since the beginning? Finally, with so much opportunity in front of us, how do we resist the urge to splinter out and dilute our focus, as unfortunately, so many companies do?
01:10:57
Colby Clegg: Well, these are all important questions, and we think about them all the time. And while not easy, I am confident that we can be successful, and we can do that by coming back and staying true to our core mission. From our founding, our mission has ultimately been extremely simple: to create tools that empower you to get things done. We took a far different route to build our company than most companies would, choosing to grow in an organic and independent way with no outside investment or influence. And we did that because we knew this industry needed someone it could trust, someone who ultimately only had one goal: their success.
01:11:42
Colby Clegg: That requires vision, and it requires independence. Today, we greatly value that independence. As a business, of course, we have all of the same goals and aspirations that any business should, but at the end of the day the only person we have to truly answer to is you, our customer. It hasn't been easy, and we've worked since the beginning, all together, led by Steve's vision to make this independence stable and viable. As I've settled into this role over the last 18 months, this has taken on a new light for me. I've been reminded in so many ways how this independence is vital to achieving our core mission. It gives me the confidence to say that we can continue to grow in a way that is responsible and beneficial to this community, growing not just for the sake of growth but growing with purpose. This lets us confront any challenges that might arise because we can always come back to that purpose: empower you to get things done. Our independence makes us unique, and we are fully dedicated to maintaining that.
01:12:51
Colby Clegg: It's important for me to highlight that this morning, because I do believe it is the cornerstone of what sets us apart. Our competitive advantage is far more than our software. It's the entire experience that you have with us. It is our software, but it's our support, our philosophies, unlimited access, open data, free knowledge transfer, all of that works together to create an experience that leads to that amazing Ignition effect that Kat just introduced. Ultimately, it's this experience that sets us apart from the competition, and that makes being a member of this community so special. That means that as we grow, we ultimately have to protect and then enhance that experience. And I'm very excited to highlight our dedication to that this morning.
01:13:40
Colby Clegg: A vital part of the Inductive Automation experience is the amazing personal service that we provide in every way, from the advice that our sales and sales engineering teams give to the incredible tech support we offer. It's all based on the personal conviction of our staff that their ultimate goal is to make you successful. A key element of our approach to this service has historically focused on keeping our staff close together, united by our office here in Folsom. There are important benefits to this especially as we manage everything we do ourselves with no outsourcing. It's important that all areas of the company can be in close and efficient communication. The downside, of course, is that even though we can interact with the whole world and even as a remote-first company now, we're still very localized to this region and time zone.
01:14:31
Colby Clegg: As part of our strategy to address this, we've leaned onto our Integrator Program and of course have established our international distribution program. Both of these groups work every day to reach customers in their own time zones and their own languages, and our distributors are truly doing a wonderful job of representing all of our core values in their parts of the world. However, both continue to rely on Inductive Automation for high-level support, and of course, there are many functions that only we can fill. If we're going to succeed in pushing the envelope on the experience that all of our customers have, our distributors, our integrators, our end users, we have to expand. And that is exactly what I'm thrilled to present to you this morning with the introduction of Inductive Automation Australia.
01:15:27
Colby Clegg: Australia is an excellent strategic location because it gives us direct coverage over a significant and important part of the world. This is the home of iControls, our long-time distributor and partner, and they have done a tremendous job of opening up and developing this market. We've reached an agreement to bring over the staff and assets of iControls as Inductive Automation Australia, meaning that immediately we have a full team of knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and dedicated staff, ready and excited to help provide the best experience possible in this important region of the world.
01:16:03
Colby Clegg: Not only will Australia give us the opportunity to provide more support and resources to our current customers, it'll also give us a great base of operations on which to ramp up our sales and marketing efforts to other vital countries in this region over time. We also look forward to being able to offer extended tech support, reducing response times and the need for after-hour support for all of our customers. This will, of course, ramp up over time, and as of this morning we have an announcement up on our website, laying out our timeline and our plans over the next few months. But coming back to a high level, this means that after 20 years, Inductive Automation is finally a multinational company. As our community grows to span the entire globe, we wanna be right there with you to provide the best experience possible. Please help me in welcoming the New Australian members of Inductive Automation, now joining us today and remotely.
01:17:19
Colby Clegg: Well, since I mentioned 20 years, when I think that Inductive Automation turns 20 this year, what excites me the most isn't how far we've come, it's how far we can go. This anniversary is a milestone to be certain. It's a testament to Steve and Wendi-Lynn's vision and drive to push forward when most of the industry thought that the established solutions were as far as we could go. But it's clear to me that this year is so much more. It's a starting point for what's to come. Ignition was developed with all kinds of features to break down barriers, but perhaps the most powerful feature of all isn't anything that we coded it to do. It's the fact that by removing limits, Ignition brings people, data, and ideas together. This morning you've seen many examples of that and have seen that the heights to which this community can elevate automation are truly unlimited. You've learned how companies are making Digital Transformation a reality today.
01:18:22
Colby Clegg: You've seen the impact that we can have on society by leveraging Ignition for more than just automation. You've seen our dedication to growing with purpose and striving to provide an ever richer and more fulfilling experience to this entire community. Ultimately, every day we all have different challenges to confront, new technologies to figure out trying to find the best path forward. But I know there's no better place for innovation and world-changing progress to be made than right here in this community. Supporting you is our purpose, and we promise to do everything we can to be there for you for the next 20 years, just as you've been here to support us for the first 20. With that, I welcome you once again to ICC 2023, and hope you have a wonderful conference.
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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!
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00:05
Colby Clegg: Wow. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:11
Colby Clegg: Wow. Wow. What an incredible start yesterday. In 11 years of doing this, I don't think we've ever had a first day quite like that. From morning to night this place was packed with people talking, connecting, and reconnecting. It was really amazing. And I think almost two-thirds of you are here for the first time, so I'm sure yesterday really gave you a sense of what ICC is all about. Well, I'll tell you what, we've squeezed more people than ever before into here. And although I don't think we succeeded in pushing the walls out, we have broken it down virtually and are streaming this in real time for the first time ever. We have people participating this week from all over the world: from South Africa, South America, Europe, Middle East, Australia. But I think the current leaders on my longest voyage travel board scoreboard, which I do keep track of, are our friends from Element8 in South Africa with 34 hours of travel to be here.
01:18
Colby Clegg: So if you can beat that, let me know and I'll go update the board, but I'm not sure anyone will. So whether you've come from near or from far or are joining us virtually today, I just wanna say once again, welcome and thank you for making the effort to participate because I'm confident with the content and the activities that we have lined up, this is really gonna be the best ICC ever. Alright, so it's been quite a year, hasn't it? Who had AI dominates the world on their 2023 bingo card?
01:49
Colby Clegg: But don't worry, I'm not gonna talk about AI, although that would be the cool thing to do. Sorry. But I do wanna highlight how I think it represents something really important. To me what it represents is a continuation of the trends, the discussions that we've been having for years. A lot of these technologies that we've been discussing that are starting to reach a level of utility and practical application that's starting to create a lot of attention. And it's starting to create a real sense of urgency around us.
02:19
Colby Clegg: Consider a couple recent quotes. "There is no alternative to Digital Transformation," says Jeff Bezos. "Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves, and those that don't adapt will fail." That's dramatic. "The next five years... " Oh, this is from Saul Berman from IBM, also says, "The next five years will be more disruptive than the last 15. This is not business as usual. A lot of technology that came in three years ago doesn't work anymore." Okay, well, despite all the hand-wringing, a lot of companies haven't taken action yet. A recent survey on Digital Transformation says that 90% of CEOs believe that the digital economy will impact their industry, and yet less than 15% are executing a digital strategy. Well, we all know that technology progresses at an exponential rate, and we're getting to the point where companies that have embraced Digital Transformation are really starting to distinguish themselves from those that haven't.
03:21
Colby Clegg: Now, I'm not trying to flatter you, but I do believe if you're joining us this week you're among the more forward-thinking companies in the world. That said, we all have different situations and are in different places. Our goal with this conference, as always, is to help you wherever you're at to fall on the productive side of that urgency, to help you start, continue, or elevate your Digital Transformation journey. And that's because no matter where you are, we are at a point in time where the technology ecosystem available to us, combined with the needs, the factors driving the need for Digital Transformation are creating an environment ripe for making real and lasting change.
04:04
Colby Clegg: Okay, but how do we get started and how do we make that change lasting and successful? At Inductive Automation we have an opinion, and it's a very strongly held one. We firmly believe that lasting change isn't forced from the top down, but it grows from the bottom up. As a company with roots in industrial integration, this is the story we've lived. This is how we've built everything from the ground up. We've continued that path as we've grown our company, cultivating the world's best integrator program, and then working with companies and partners to develop technologies and standards, and models that make it ever easier, more practical to move data upwards and into higher-order applications. Doing this and creating real value at every step of the way is how real Digital Transformation happens.
04:56
Colby Clegg: What do I mean by creating value at every step? Well, we can look at how we built Ignition, for example. We started by unlocking data with unlimited licensing. Then we added distributed functionality with our gateway network. After that, we introduced MQTT in partnership with Cirrus Link launching IIoT and edge data collection, which has now led to massive unified data systems. Most recently we introduced Ignition Cloud Edition to add one more building block to take things to the next level. But these are only tools. The next and most significant layer of value are the applications created on them, and that's where you come in. More than ever before, you, the community, are elevating automation through the incredible applications that you're building. Today, you are elevating your enterprises on a global scale, using tools from edge to cloud to deliver value layer by layer to build systems that introduce new operating paradigms.
06:01
Colby Clegg: Along the way we at Inductive Automation are working every day to elevate ourselves so that we can be there to support you in the best way possible. Have you started getting an idea of why we chose "Elevate" as this year's theme? This one word perfectly captures the mission that we are all on across their companies, across the technology, and across the world. It's an open invitation to consider what we're doing and what we can do to raise the bar in an ecosystem where there's virtually nothing stopping us except for our imaginations.
06:35
Colby Clegg: This morning we're gonna go on a journey through many incredible examples of how this Ignition community and our company are elevating industrial automation. You'll hear from Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky about how this community is leveraging all of the tools I just mentioned to build applications and solutions that are truly next-level. You'll hear from Carl Gould, Kat Jeschke, and myself about how our company is elevating our efforts to support, to continue to open up this incredible technology ecosystem to you through Ignition. Ultimately, this is a team effort and you'll see many members of Inductive Automation and this community highlighted this morning. In fact, every single one of you is a participant in this story. And I hope that our discussion this morning will inspire you to take this theme to heart as we dive fully into ICC. So with that, let's begin.
07:38
David Grussenmeyer: The Ignition community is really a remarkable community.
07:41
Jacqui Leake: They help us by sharing best practices, giving us regular feedback on the product.
07:46
Mara Pillott: I see a lot of just amazing and innovative ideas out there, but the really important part is that they're sharing those ideas and talking about them.
07:54
Madison Knowles: Our customers are taking those things and saying, "Hey, we need this. Let's talk on the forums. Let's build Exchange resources."
08:01
Daniel Forbes: Having the ability to share information, share knowledge, really helps accelerate development. It really helps accelerate new ideas.
08:10
Vannessa Garcia: Yeah, I'm consistently impressed by just the creativity of the community when it comes to the applications that they're building with Ignition.
08:18
Annie Wise: The Ignition community elevates the automation industry by its consistent transformation. This is a group of incredibly bright people that are asking, "Can we do this differently? Should we do this differently? And how can we make our customers have a better experience?" And that outlook, that approach is shaping our industry at large.
08:36
Laura Duckett: Sharing ideas, asking questions, encouraging conversations, that's gonna benefit all of us. It's really our combined knowledge that's going to elevate the automation industry.
08:49
Arnell Ignacio: The Ignition community has elevated the automation industry by developing some of the most amazing and innovative applications that we've seen today. They're finding solutions to everyday pain points, and they're figuring out what can be done with the software, Ignition.
09:03
David Grussenmeyer: Seeing their interaction through our partner programs or through our events or conferences has been something really remarkable.
09:09
Don Pearson: They're able to say yes, they're able to do more. They're able to really accelerate the plans of those end-user customers to make their Digital Transformation happen, to make their deployments happen, to solve their problems.
09:23
Kathy Applebaum: And you would think these people would be competitors, but they've realized that by helping each other, they make more jobs available and more interesting jobs available.
09:39
Travis Cox: Man, good morning everybody. How y'all doing today? Alright. Man, I'm excited to be back in ICC again. Yesterday was so much fun. There was so much energy out there. I'm sure y'all felt it. And this, Colby said, "This is what ICC is all about." It's been a year now that I've been in my new role here, and as part of my job I get to introduce Ignition to new people all the time. And during that I have to answer one really important question: Wha the heck is Ignition? Now, I've answered that question thousands of times over the years and that question's evolved over the years as well, but it's actually a pretty hard question to answer, right? From the beginning, we've talked about Ignition as being The New SCADA, right? It's SCADA, but there's so much more that's possible with that.
10:22
Travis Cox: Today we talk about it as an industrial application platform, one where you can build any kind of application out there from HMI, SCADA, MES, IIoT, and a lot more. But how do you encapsulate? How do you explain all that Ignition can do? It's been difficult. So that's why this year we launched a social media campaign to help get your answers to that question. And we got a lot of responses back, and we can tell in those responses how passionate you guys are about Ignition. We can see the impact that Ignition has had on the applications that you all are building. And we can see that your unique perspective that you bring to what Ignition means. And what I wanna do this morning is actually share a couple of those responses with you. So the first is: Ignition SCADA is a software platform used to build and deploy industrial automation and control systems. Yeah, absolutely, right? Ignition is a fully integrated asset-monitoring platform. It's an historian. It's an OPC UA server. It's a web server out the box. It's a platform to develop your own module. And this last one is my favorite: Ignition is like magic, but real.
11:32
Travis Cox: And how many of us feel that way about Ignition, right? About how it's been able to help us solve so many unique challenges. I can tell you that it is my partner in crime every day. When I have some challenges I need to be able to solve, I just pop open Ignition, and we take care of it. So, as you can see, we got some really great responses back with this campaign. And despite them all being different, they're all so totally true. And this is why it's so hard to pinpoint exactly what Ignition is because it means a million different things to a million different people. And I love being here at ICC getting your perspective on what Ignition means to you.
12:11
Travis Cox: So Ignition could be HMI software. It could be a SCADA system. It could be a complete IoT infrastructure. It can even be a home automation system. Ignition is what people make with it. And the applications that this community is building it helps shape people's ideas about what Ignition is. And more than that, your ideas are what elevate Ignition to a whole new level, and bringing something that's powerful, that's productive, and that's change-making for all that's using it. This community is building applications that can handle massive amounts of data, that can turn information into real action and insight, that can extend Ignition to brand new use cases that we never thought that were possible, and that can harness the collaborative power of large working groups and this amazing community that we have.
12:57
Travis Cox: And there's no better place, you'll all agree with me, there's no better place to see all of that than right here at ICC. And there's no better place to see all of the amazing applications that you're building than with our Discover Gallery. So if you haven't checked it out, I would highly encourage you to do that. Our Discover Gallery is a video showcase that really shows all the amazing outstanding projects that the community is building, and you can watch those videos while you're here at ICC. You could check it out on the app. You can also go online and check them out too. And we got some fantastic projects this year. Every year, I love being able to share these projects with all of you. But six of them really stood out to us, and those six are the ones that won the Firebrand Award winners, and those that demonstrate excellence in their Ignition project work. So those projects this year are: Vantage Data Centers, Grantek, ESM Automation Systems, Room in the Inn, 2Gi Technologie, and Skellig Automation. Let's give all of these projects a big round of applause.
14:04
Travis Cox: So the Discover Gallery is really a great example of how this community is elevating the industry. And today I wanna focus on four areas of Ignition application development that are helping companies take their operations to the next level. And those areas are scalability, data visualization, extensibility, and collaboration. Let's start with scalability. Every SCADA application has to be able to handle large amounts of data. But how do you build one that effectively manages over five million data points and over 750,000 alarms without compromising ease of use? And that was certainly the challenge that Vantage Data Centers was facing. Vantage Data Centers support some of the world's biggest cloud providers. With expansion to Europe and to Middle East, Vantage was challenged with building a framework and an approach to deploying thousand devices on short commissioning windows and on a massive scale. Ignition scalability was used to meet this challenge using a hub-and-spoke architecture and using Ignition's gateway network.
15:06
Travis Cox: Three layers of gateways were deployed: I/O gateways at the edge to collect data, frontend gateways to allow the user interface, and gateways for regional management. And using the Enterprise Administration Module to interconnect sites, Vantage can see the big picture of all of their data, and they can extrapolate trends, and they can look for areas for improvement. And to make the application easy to use and easy to navigate, they use the Perspective Module to create a universal pop-up that displays data consistently from any device based on the UDT instance. And the application's high-performance screen design enables operators to access data from anywhere with just four clicks.
15:48
Travis Cox: So visualization is a key to understanding and acting on data. If operators can't see their data in real time in the facilities, they can't take action, right? And this is especially important in highly regulated industries like pharmaceuticals. So Merck & Co., Inc., they needed a way to effectively manage alarms at a large scale at their West Point, Pennsylvania, facility. So they brought in Grantek to help. Using Ignition Perspective, Grantek developed a solution that provides alarm monitoring, historization, and management for over 10,000 points. They created a high-density alarm summary view that lets operators see all the relative metadata and all that status in a conveniently docked pane so they can view, they can dispatch, they can acknowledge, and they can annotate alarm events in just seconds. Now Merck Co. operators can turn data into action with the visualization system that gives them exceptional awareness so they can see and react quickly to whatever changes occur.
16:49
Travis Cox: So to effectively manage change, companies must be able to extend their applications. Ignition's extensibility can help by giving companies the tools that they need to meet almost any use case, even ones that we didn't think of. And that's exactly what happened. An example, one of our Premier Integrators, ESM, built for the Creature Technology Company. They needed software to help theatrical technicians create and modify the motion of complex animatronic figures. It is pretty cool. Using Ignition Perspective and studio animation tools, the solution gives operators an easy drag-and-drop interface to link together dynamic movements and functions to create these fluid movements for the figures. We certainly never designed Ignition for this use case. Exactly.
17:39
Travis Cox: But thanks to the Module SDK for Ignition and the ingenuity of the ESM engineers, this Ignition application was elevated to a brand new use case and even helped bring these dinosaurs back to life.
17:54
Travis Cox: So the last aspect of Ignition application development that I wanna explore is collaboration. And perhaps collaboration is the most powerful feature of Ignition because it harnesses the innovative power of this amazing community, where we're creating applications that can really impact people's lives. And that's exactly what it did for Room in the Inn. Room in the Inn works with over a hundred congregations in Middle Tennessee to provide safe shelter, warm meals, and fellowship to people struggling with homelessness. They were dealing with the logistical nightmare of using outdated software and spreadsheets to coordinate the work of over 13 shelters, over a hundred congregations, and thousands of homeless participants and volunteers. They needed one system to streamline their operation, but to do that they needed a team of integrators and they needed software, which of course they didn't have, and they didn't have a budget to go out there and spend millions of dollars to get something that they actually needed.
18:52
Travis Cox: But that's when a group of volunteers from this community offered their time to help. Using Ignition's ability to support concurrent designers and create and share project resources through the Ignition Exchange, volunteers collaborate in a way that would've been impossible using any other software. Working together, over 150 people from locations around the globe, they joined forces to build the application the Room in the Inn needed. Now, thanks to all of their help, Room in the Inn is better prepared to provide food and shelter to the many people who need it in their area this winter. This project was a true labor of love, and it took the collaborative efforts of hundreds of people from this community to deliver. When you add up all the time and the technology costs that it took to pull this off, it's estimated this project was over $1 million in value. Yet everybody, they provided and worked on and offered their time for free. Now...
19:54
Travis Cox: Exactly.
20:03
Travis Cox: And for all their time and efforts, each volunteer got as much as they put into it... They get a lot out of it as they put into it. Many new resources on the Exchange were created, new skills were learned throughout this process, and stronger connections were forged. All volunteers work not only help Room in the Inn, but they also lift up the project work for all those that took part, and they can take this back to the customers and bring those resources and those examples into these facilities. It was an amazing effort, and we couldn't be more proud of how this community pulled together. Let's give all the volunteers who worked on this project a big round of applause.
20:54
Travis Cox: Now, although we couldn't give every single person a Firebrand Award for this project, we did wanna honor the one person who spearheaded this project, Chris McLaughlin.
21:17
Travis Cox: Chris has been an amazing member of this community for years. And for his effort in leading this project for Room in the Inn, we are giving him a special Firebrand Award for community involvement. Thank you Chris, for all that you do.
21:36
Travis Cox: So this project really inspired us to give back to our local communities because it showed us the good that can come out of the people that share their time and their talents and technology with their neighbors, even if those neighbors are hundreds of thousands of miles away. Giving back to the community has always been an important value of Inductive Automation. And that's why we back in 2014, we launched the Inductive University to freely share knowledge with anyone so they can learn Ignition at their own pace. It's also why we released Ignition Maker Edition a few years ago so that anyone can use it for personal use. But you know what? We also provide free licenses for educational use. But we noticed this gap for nonprofits and for communities that can really benefit from Ignition, and we wanted to do something about that gap. We wanted to fill that gap with the launch of our brand new program, the Community Impact Program.
22:31
Travis Cox: This program will allow individuals to apply for a free Ignition license in order to create a project that benefits their community. And to qualify, people have to show their project benefits the community, that it's noncommercial, and that it's not feasible to do with a commercial license of Ignition. So if you can think of more examples like the amazing project, Room in the Inn, I encourage you all to apply. This program is launched today on our website, so you can go there and you can learn a lot more about it and definitely check it all out. We are honored to be a part of a giving community like this one, and we hope for this new program that we can all work together to help even more people in our local communities enjoy the benefits of Ignition.
23:13
Travis Cox: Another way, like I mentioned, we give back to this community is through that Ignition Exchange. We set up the Ignition Exchange years ago to help our community share resources to make it faster and easier to deploy and build applications. And it's been a huge success. We have over hundreds of resources in there that help people build array of different solutions. It is a powerful resource and it's a one-stop shop for a lot of people to go and get ideas and get inspired for what they can bring into their projects. And we want to enhance that; every year at the conference we want to enhance that experience with the Exchange. We wanna pump it up more. And this year what we did is we pulled together the first-ever ICC Community-Powered Sparkplug Data Dash.
23:55
Travis Cox: Now the Sparkplug Data Dash, if you haven't checked it out, it's upstairs in the tech lounge, it allows participants from all around the world to publish actual machine data and models from the edge to our cloud MQTT server using MQTT Sparkplug. And we have a dashboard up there that shows real visualizations of that data. We are showing the true power of leveraging Ignition and open standards to provide a single source of truth of asset data that is available to anyone and any service that's out there. We're talking about true democratization of data. And we're not just talking about it, we're actually doing it. We're showing real examples of data all around the world coming in there. And this is what Digital Transformation really requires. You need to focus on getting more out of your data rather than locking it down. You need to access data on dashboards no matter where you are in the world, and you need to be able to go further with that data, leveraging ML and AI tools. There's a lot of great tools that are out there today.
24:53
Travis Cox: So I'm excited to say that with this project we had over 50 participants and companies that took part, each contributing unique data models and Perspective templates that are all available on the Ignition Exchange. See, I definitely... And go check out the Data Dash. It is really cool. That's in that tech lounge. So with this, there's nowhere that you can see practical edge-to-cloud examples using actual data with context that is truly scalable. We're showing it with that. We're also talking about a lot here at this conference. For years the industry has been talking about Digital Transformation from with edge-to-cloud technologies, and instead of just talking about it, this community here has making it happen right now. Utilizing Ignition scalability, visualization, extensibility, and collaboration features, this community is elevating the industry with every application that you guys are building. And we're doing everything that we can to help facilitate and help enterprises use the best new technologies to transform their processes. Now to talk more about Digital Transformation, let's bring out our very own, Kevin McClusky.
26:01
Kevin McClusky: Thanks, Travis. Travis shared some great examples of how this community is elevating automation through Ignition application development. And keeping with this theme, I wanted to talk a little bit about another way that we're seeing this community take the industry to the next level by elevating enterprise systems through Digital Transformation. As a side note, I'll say it's really good to be here. It's really good to see all of you. And I know so many of you are doing these types of big enterprise architectures and applications. That part of what I'm talking about here is a big validation for you and for us from what you're doing for us too and for the community. As I'm sure you know, the concept of Digital Transformation, it's pretty simple. It's about using the best digital technology to improve operational technology or operational efficiency basically at its core. In reality, transforming industrial processes can be difficult because information technology and operation technology, as you know, isn't always work built. It isn't always built to work well together between the two. As a result, many companies have been slow to implement Digital Transformation.
27:08
Kevin McClusky: But in the last few years we've actually seen a number of things that have been changing that significantly. Back in 2020 when the pandemic hit, the world changed overnight. My wife and I had just had our first child, and we were at home and I got a call that said, "Don't come back." No, they weren't firing me. As you probably have guessed, I was working from home from that point forward for Inductive Automation for the entire company, and like Inductive Automation companies everywhere we're forced to grapple with this new reality of conducting business remotely and needing to really transform how they worked. Companies frankly had mixed success. We saw that companies that had embraced digital technologies were much more capable of adapting quickly while companies that hadn't, struggled. So the ones that were able to do it quickly, for example, many of our customers, many of you were able to very quickly add the Perspective Module to your installations in order to add remote access or a good option for remote access.
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Kevin McClusky: In fact, we saw sales of that module really increase during the pandemic. Adapting to change is important because the world can change fast, and as Colby mentioned, that pace is increasing. I've experienced this personally as well. Working with some of the leading companies inside the industry and inside the world, it has really shown me one thing. Companies have to keep up with the pace of technology change or they risk being left behind. Companies that combine IT and OT systems with Ignition can turn that noise of millions of data points into a clear, actionable information, and companies that don't use modern technologies can get stuck inside decision paralysis, drowning in rivers of data with no clear direction. In today's technology landscape, it really is sink or swim.
29:11
Kevin McClusky: Peter Drucker said it well: "The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. In a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast." With things moving faster, companies need to safeguard their processes for future-proofing their systems. Today's enterprises need a Digital Transformation strategy that helps elevate their old processes to Industry 4.0 standards. The factories of the future are connected, they're agile, and they're efficient, and they're being built today by members of this community. While the term "Digital Transformation" is far from new, it's actually something that the Ignition Community has been doing for over a decade since the Ignition platform was released.
30:01
Kevin McClusky: At Inductive Automation, I've worked with hundreds of integrators and end users who have transformed their processes using Ignition. And part of what makes Ignition a fantastic Digital Transformation platform is that it combines the best of OT and IT. With Ignition's full suite of products from Edge to Cloud, it can be the Digital Transformation platform for the entire enterprise by connecting people with their processes, their data, and an entire ecosystem of partners, which I'll talk a little bit more about in a few minutes here.
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Kevin McClusky: When enterprises are more connected, they can make better decisions, and they see big gains in productivity and sustainability. And every process can benefit from new technologies, even processes that have existed for decades or more. Let me give you an example from one of this year's Firebrand Award-winning projects. Saint-Gobain PAM is the UK's leading supplier of ductile iron pipe fittings, valves, and secure manhole covers. They date all the way back to 1865. They launched a Digital Transformation initiative and chose their UK facility back in 2020. The 150-year-old plant was chosen to show how modern technologies can elevate long-established processes. The age of the plant presented many challenges to modernization. They used paper-based products which gave rise to inconsistencies and made analyzing production data in real time impossible. Basically clipboards. Their hardware and software obsolescence limited the plant's ability to connect to other systems like their ERP and limits for product traceability hampered quality improvement and data sharing with its customers.
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Kevin McClusky: Saint-Gobain brought in experts 2Gi Technologie to bring their SCADA, MES, track and trace, and quality control systems all onto one universal platform. Ignition's open standards made it possible to easily interface with third-party systems, including SAP and some that even used VAX architectures designed all the way back in the '70s. Ignition was also used to collect scanned RFID tags on the surface of pipes to track production. This allowed operators to track product's locations from start to finish. And Ignition's visualization tools were used to create responsive HMIs for operators to stay in touch on the go. All of this was tested and rolled out without affecting the plant's productivity. With Ignition the people at Saint-Gobain PAM are now more connected to their processes than ever before with a system where they can monitor production data in real time for the first time in the plant's history.
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Kevin McClusky: At the heart of what makes Ignition a great Digital Transformation platform is that it can connect people with their data. Ignition's ability to connect to virtually any data source on the plant floor to the cloud to the edge makes it the ultimate platform to bring all of this data from across the entire enterprise all together. One company that uses Ignition to transform its data management is the Center for Breakthrough Medicines or CBM for short. CBM is a large cell and gene therapy CDMO specializing in end-to-end capabilities for the entire market. They develop and manufacture life-changing treatments, and their work requires a massive amount of data. So they worked with Gold Certified Integrator Skellig to bring a cutting-edge data management system to life using Ignition that leverages Opto 22 groov EPICs for device data, Cirrus Link's MQTT modules for IIoT, and Ignition for visualization and deployment.
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Kevin McClusky: Now CBM scientists can find the data they need easily. By better connecting people to data, CBM scientists can focus on higher-level analysis and research which can improve and save lives. That's it for our Firebrand Award winners, and after seeing all of them, I think you'll agree with me when I say that their excellent work with Ignition is really elevating automation. We already gave them a little bit of a round of applause, but now that you've seen them all, let's give them another hand.
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Kevin McClusky: One of the things I really loved seeing in this year's group of Discover Gallery projects is how many are leveraging our ecosystem of partner solutions to enhance their Ignition systems. By the way, the Discover Gallery is just out there and to the right. I know in years past sometimes folks have missed it, but make sure that you check it out. We have these six projects, and we have many more Discover Gallery projects that are out there as well, which are great videos to watch and experience what some of the rest of the community is doing.
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Kevin McClusky: Bringing together our partners is an important way that we're working to make the Digital Transformation process easier for enterprises. This year, as you can see, we updated our partner programs with the new Solution Partner Program category with companies who offer joint solutions that fully integrate with Ignition, including of course Sepasoft, 4IR, and Opto 22. And just last month we launched our new Alliance Partner Program. Alliance Partners are carefully vetted partnerships that provide valuable products and services that complement Ignition systems. The addition of Alliance Partners to our existing Strategic Partners and Solution Partners gives companies using Ignition a whole world of new solutions to enhance their systems.
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Kevin McClusky: One example is our collaboration with Snowflake. Many of you have talked to us about Snowflake in recent years. As you may know, Snowflake provides a highly scalable cloud-based database platform based on open IT standards. They basically provide elastic data and database storage in the cloud, and they have a slew of offerings surrounding it, including some analytics and machine learning. As part of our collaboration, we've been working with Snowflake so Ignition users can leverage their platform's data and analytics tools by making data ingestion and access in the cloud as easy as working with SQL databases.
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Kevin McClusky: Here's how it works. First, industrial data is pushed from sites and from the edge using MQTT Sparkplug. And after its coming there, data is stored automatically with its context in the Snowflake data cloud using Cirrus Link's new IIoT Bridge for Snowflake. You take your tags, you take your tag providers, you take your UDTs, all of that gets shipped over. After it's set up, it just works. You don't need any scripting for this, and everything just flows, even new data that's added later as it's sent over MQTT. Once the data's in Snowflake, users can easily query it back into Ignition so that they can use it to generate reports, perform advanced analytics, including anomaly detection, and create new applications. If you wanna learn more about how Snowflake and Ignition can be used together, check out the session that Cirrus Link is doing with Snowflake later in the conference.
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Kevin McClusky: Snowflake is just one example of the great partnerships we have in the Alliance Partner Program, and highlighting any of these is an amazing story. I'd encourage you to explore the valuable offerings that these folks have. From pretty much all of our partners here, everyone you see listed on this, our Solutions Partners, our Strategic Partners, we very carefully vet all of our partnerships for folks who are going to be bringing you the community value, and I'd encourage you to talk to all of them. Many of them have booths inside the conference here, and they're all listed on our website as well. The value that they bring to the ecosystem helps elevate all of us, and we truly appreciate that relationship that they have and their passion for our community.
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Kevin McClusky: We built Ignition to be the ultimate hub for plant floor connectivity, but our customers actually found that it does much more than that. Ignition connects more than devices; it connects people with their data, their processes, in this ecosystem of technology partners. By connecting the enterprise Ignition breaks down the barriers between companies and their Digital Transformation goals. It puts the tools in people's hands to elevate their enterprise systems to new heights. And that's part of what I see in the Firebrand Award-winning projects that we just talked about. It turns out we're not the only ones recognizing your work, so is the World Economic Forum.
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Kevin McClusky: The World Economic Forum's Lighthouse Program highlights manufacturers from various industries who have demonstrated front-running leadership in Industry 4.0 innovation. And this year CEAT Tyres was officially certified as a Lighthouse Factory, making it the first tire company in the world to achieve that designation. CEAT Tyres is one of the largest tire manufacturers in India, with multiple plants across the country. Top executives leading the way, Ignition chosen as the base platform, CEAT worked to modernize every aspect of one of their plant's production. With the new system, the plant saw multiple positive outcomes, including reducing its carbon footprint, drastically cutting water and energy consumption, and increased productivity in this plant that already existed with no base machinery changes by an incredible 15%.
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Kevin McClusky: It's an amazing project, and although it wasn't part of the Discover Gallery this year, I wanted to mention it here because their great work is part of leading the way in Industry 4.0 innovation. I also wanted to mention the amazing work of the integrators who worked on the project, expert Ignition integrators Automation Excellence and BASE Automation. We know that behind every Ignition application and enterprise stands a team of dedicated engineers and integrators working hard to transform their companies' and customers' projects. It's your work that's elevating the community, and it's our mission to support you. In this next section of the keynote, we'll look at what Inductive Automation is doing to help elevate the community.
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Jacqui Leake: So we in the Support Division, we're a team of dedicated problem solvers. We're committed to helping our community with the support that they need to be successful. Whether you're a new user or a seasoned professional, we are here to help you get the most out of Ignition.
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Daniel Forbes: I personally work in recruiting, and we really try to build a culture of people that are excited about what we're doing for the automation industry. And so we like to provide information for them, and then when we do interview them, I look for that spark. We look for people that are really excited, that we feel will be a good fit to the culture of Inductive Automation.
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David Grussenmeyer: Just a few months back, we launched the Alliance Partner Program. We partner with companies that offer products or solutions that complement Ignition deployments. We're able to highlight these products or services through co-marketing efforts, and really show our customers and our community how these products or these services together provide a better experience for the end user or for the customer.
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Arnell Ignacio: Luckily, with Ignition, the software pretty much sells itself. Our jobs here in marketing is to inform you of what it can do and to reveal what it does for a lot of our customers.
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Kathy Applebaum: In software engineering, the obvious thing would be that we make it Ignition. But I have to say, I'm secretly really, really proud of our participation on the user forum. So many times I see our developers and myself included, we start every day with that cup of caffeine in hand, and we're going through the new posts on the forum. I see people answering questions about how the software works, how to make it work better. I see them writing tickets for bug fixes for new features all coming through that forum participation.
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Don Pearson: I've actually had a good opportunity this year to spend a lot of time with our Premier Integrators. I get the opportunity to see how we really are elevating the game.
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Carl Gould: Good morning, everybody. So we just had Travis and Kevin share some really incredible examples of the projects from the Discover Gallery, the Firebrand Award winners. And they represent an incredible diversity that is a good... It's emblematory of the kind of projects that are being built with Ignition, and I encourage you all to go and check out all of the projects in the Discover Gallery. There's so many excellent projects in there this year. They're really inspiring, and I really think they're of the highest caliber. And as one of the creators of Ignition, it's really gratifying to see because these projects help to validate one of our core beliefs, which is that it is open platforms that drive innovation. A regular software application can be quite useful; they often are. But ultimately, you might find that they become a bit limiting because they can only offer a fixed set of solutions for what they were originally designed to do, and they may have difficulty adapting to new situations.
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Carl Gould: But a platform can give you the tools that you need to solve new problems in novel ways. And Ignition is set up like this as a platform to make you the innovator so that you can bring your domain knowledge, you can bring your expertise and your creativity to bear on whatever problem it is you're trying to solve. And that's what I see play out every year at ICC, with Ignition being showcased in a variety of fascinating and innovative new use cases across an ever-widening range of industries. I love seeing all that new technology being integrated with the platform, and as Kevin showed, this has now resulted in a growing ecosystem of technology partnerships. These partnerships open up new possibilities for the kinds of applications that you can build with Ignition. Ignition's open nature, its modular architecture and freely accessible SDK, make it readily adaptable to be used with any kind of new technology trend. And sometimes it can be hard to tell where our efforts with the software end and community efforts begin.
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Carl Gould: And as an example of this, with all of the excitement around generative AI this past year, we saw someone on social media commenting about how they don't really know much about Inductive Automation, but from what they could tell we were just completely obsessed with ChatGPT. And we saw this comment, we sort of scratched our chins, and because we found this both amusing and ironic because we haven't done anything with ChatGPT as far as integrating it with the product. So what was this person reacting to? Entirely community-driven efforts, and they couldn't tell the difference between our efforts with Ignition and community integrations. And that's the point, that Ignition is so readily adaptable that it can be used with a new trending technology that can be rapidly and seamlessly integrated.
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Carl Gould: And this type of extensibility is a major advantage for us because we don't have to constantly change Ignition to chase a new technology trend because Ignition is designed to be adapted by the user, by you, so you can integrate it with anything you need to. And this extensibility makes systems built with Ignition remarkably future-proof because you always have endless ways to continue to integrate new solutions into your application, and you can continually bring increasing value at every level of your organization that's using Ignition. For years, we've been improving Ignition's ability to operate at every layer of the infrastructure stack by gracefully integrating at each layer, making the right connections, we're able to create value along the way. It starts at the plant floor with the standard Ignition platform. This is really a home base for us. We're very comfortable here, we connect easily to technologies both on the OT side of the house as well as the IT side of the house, and we are used across the globe to build the common types of applications you find at this layer: HMI, SCADA, MES applications. But we also are used for a number of other applications at this layer that just defy all categorization.
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Carl Gould: A few years ago, we added Ignition Edge. Edge has made it easy to deploy Ignition in remote environments on limited computing infrastructure that can be deployed adjacent to critical assets, and I think Edge and MQTT have really helped bring the promise of IIoT into reality. And earlier this year, we released Ignition Cloud Edition on the Amazon AWS Marketplace, and just last month we expanded the availability of Cloud Edition to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. So I'm really happy that it's now available on both of the major cloud infrastructure providers in our realm. Cloud Edition enables you to augment the capabilities of an Ignition system by leveraging cloud services and easily spinning up elastic cloud architectures.
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Carl Gould: What's cool about Cloud Edition is that it enables you to build applications that can really span the breadth of an Ignition-based organization or an organization that uses Ignition in various places. It can integrate with assets on the plant floor or at the edge of the network, and you can create systems that are really greater than the sum of their parts. It's common for organizations to have Ignition installed in various places, often scattered around geographically, maybe communicating with each other, maybe not. And with Cloud Edition, you can easily spin up a scalable architecture in the cloud, it can securely gather KPIs from all these different facilities, bring them into a unified data model, and present them on a dashboard that can then be accessed securely from anywhere.
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Carl Gould: When we develop Ignition, we follow a pretty simple philosophy. First, make it possible and then make it easy. And Cloud Edition is a good example of this. It's been possible to use Ignition in the cloud for years. Many of you have been doing just that. But with the release of Cloud Edition, we've made it so much easier. We've really improved the user experience and the purchasing model and the ease of implementing these architectures in the cloud.
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Carl Gould: We follow the same approach for product maintenance. Take Perspective, for example, where since the initial release of that module, we've added hundreds of new features and quality-of-life improvements and performance improvements. We even got Phil using it this year so you know it's getting good.
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Carl Gould: This methodical and agile approach helps us get new features into your hands sooner and then just steadily improve them over time. It also helps us respond quickly to security concerns. So every year we participate in this big contest hosted by ZDI, the Zero Day Initiative. This is a conference where security researchers gather and they compete for big cash bounties by finding new vulnerabilities in industrial control systems like Ignition and a bunch of others. And when a new vulnerability arises, as they inevitably do, we often have a patch developed and released within the week, thanks to our agile process and our nightly release mechanism. We consistently impress researchers with the speed of our responses. But this year we've taken a significant step further not just by responding quickly, but also by taking a more proactive approach by securing the development process itself. This year, our company-wide software development life cycle was certified by exida to be compliant with ISA 62443 and ISASecure.
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Carl Gould: These are rigorous standards that set forth the best practices and procedures and policies for the secure design and implementation and deployment of industrial control software, and the certificate is only awarded to companies that pass a strict audit that shows that not only do you have all of these policies and procedures in place, but that they are actually being followed. What this means for you is that it gives your Ignition applications the assurance that they have the strongest security posture possible.
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Carl Gould: Now at this point, some of you might be thinking, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, just tell us about 8.3."
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Carl Gould: I know a few of you might be thinking, "Wait a second, what happened to 8.2?" Good questions. I'll answer them both. So we're skipping 8.2 because even-numbered releases are cursed.
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Carl Gould: No, the reality is a bit more boring. We have a tradition here of having odd-numbered releases come with long-term support. And because of the amount of time elapsed since the initial release of 8.1, we just wanna go straight into another LTS release, so we're calling it 8.3. As for the timeline we are hard at work in it right now, and we expect it to be released in the second half of next year, but it will be worth the wait. We have a lot of really exciting features coming in 8.3. We've got native drawing tools for Perspective. We've got a...
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Audience Member 1: Woo!
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Carl Gould: Yay!
51:46
Carl Gould: Long awaited. We have a new high-performance time-series historian, we've got this really interesting new method for ingesting streaming event data, and I know that was just a tease. So we will be back on this stage, Colby and I, tomorrow morning where we will go into detail about these features of 8.3, give you some sneak peeks of more features, as well as get into some more specifics about that release timeline.
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Carl Gould: But back to the topic of this keynote. 8.3 is going to represent a really substantial elevation of the platform, and I'm thrilled to see what you all build on top of it. We're always amazed by the kinds of innovations you all bring to the applications you build in Ignition, and I know you will all continue to elevate the state-of-the-art of automation to new heights. And to help you do just that, here is Inductive Automation's Chief Operating Officer, Kat Jeschke.
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Kat Jeschke: Hi everyone. I know you've been welcomed a lot by now, but I just wanna say, welcome. Thank you for being here. I wanted to share some company highlights with all of you, as well as some of our accomplishments and our company strategy. But before I go into those, I wanted to share just a little bit of my year with all of you. This year, I got the opportunity to attend conferences with many of you, and it's truly been a highlight of my year. In April we attended the HANNOVER MESSE with three of our international distributors, and it was incredible because we've been to shows in Germany before, but this time was different. The interest from the German market was amazing. We were in nonstop conversations all day long and well into the evening. We also got the chance to visit our Italian distributor EFA and attend SPS Parma. It was such an honor to meet all of our customers in Italy and to see the passion and enthusiasm shared across the globe for our software. These experiences reminded me how our Ignition community isn't just localized to one place, or this conference, but that it's truly everywhere.
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Kat Jeschke: Seeing this community in action is what drives us to be the best company we can be. That mission to be the best came from our founders, Steve and Wendi-Lynn Hechtman, who were driven to build a different type of industrial automation software company. The result of their efforts is what you see today. So last year when the torch got passed to the new leadership team, we all came together and we wanted to continue to carry out that mission, continue to build and grow the best possible company in the industrial automation software industry. And I have to say if you could be a fly on the wall at our leadership summits, you'd be overwhelmed with the sense of purpose, care, and dedication that our leadership team embodies. It is their daily work, ideas, and creative spirit that are the driving force behind Inductive Automation.
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Kat Jeschke: They truly embody our company motto, "Dream It, Do It." This motto isn't just something that we say. It's the creative spirit we strive to foster in our company, and we see examples of it every day. I just wanna highlight a few for you. There's Kevin Collins, who came up with the idea of Ignition Cloud Edition and played a huge role in developing it. And Sabrina Reese, who assembled the product council in software engineering to help steer the direction of Ignition development. And Jessica Geisser, who first thought of using the word "elevate" as the theme for this year's conference. And the incredible HR team who assembled a committee dedicated to keeping our company culture strong. And then there's more than a dozen of members of our software support team who came together to create the first-ever SCADA Arcade, which is a fun way for our support staff to develop their skills. These are just a few highlights of Dream It, Do It. And the reality is, I'm barely scratching the surface of all the talented team members at Inductive Automation that dream up new ideas every single day.
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Kat Jeschke: Working with such talented people is what makes Inductive Automation a great place to work. And we see this clearly reflected in our retention numbers. Our retention numbers are far above industry averages, and much of our company's core staff has been at Inductive Automation since its early years. A great example of this is Jim Meisler. Jim was our first salesperson. He joined Inductive Automation in 2006, and he made hundreds of cold calls to any and all potential customers that would listen to him. Over these years, Jim has worked with thousands of people and helped scores of companies get started with Ignition. I'm sure many of you have probably talked with Jim over the years. In fact, I think it's fair to say that a good part of this audience may not even be at this conference today if it wasn't for Jim and his outstanding efforts. Well, at the end of this year, Jim is retiring. So before he goes, please help me give him a huge round of applause. He's right over there for seven...
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Kat Jeschke: Woo!
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Kat Jeschke: Thank you, Jim. Shifting now to the company strategy. At the beginning of each year we choose a handful of distinct areas that we think are vital for supporting the growth of Inductive Automation and this community. I'd like to take a few minutes here and highlight each one of these areas. I'm happy to say we've made tremendous progress in all of these areas. You've just heard about the product from Carl, and you'll learn even more in tomorrow's Technical Keynote. Suffice it to say though we've done a ton of work on the product this year, and our vision for where we want our software to go is as strong as ever.
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Kat Jeschke: Growing our direct sales to more customers through more verticals has been a strategy for this year. One of the strengths of our company is the fantastic diversity of our customer base. We have thousands of customers, and our largest customer only makes up a very small percentage of our total sales. Having customers spread over hundreds of verticals shows how flexible Ignition is, and it makes our company extremely stable because we're not dependent on any one industry.
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Kat Jeschke: Last year we saw strong growth in automotive, water and wastewater, and energy, and we saw substantial growth in newer verticals like transportation, data centers, public administration, and healthcare. Strong sales across these verticals and many more helped us finish last year with over 30% growth in revenue from the previous year, which continues our trend of strong year-over-year growth dating all the way back to 2010.
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Kat Jeschke: Our channel sales programs continue to develop and we improve them. The program overall continues to grow a very strong rate, and distributors have done more shows and reach more customers than ever before. Our international sales grew by 33%, and today Ignition is being used in 130 countries, and that number continues to grow. We also added a new distributor, Clarion Solutions, which covers the Middle East and North Africa regions. The Integrator Program continues to be one of our key focus areas, and we've seen a ton of great growth in the program this year. We currently have 3,900 integration companies in the program, and since last September we've added 548 new integration firms, and there's five we've elevated to our highest level of Premier. The new Premier Integrators are Tristar Electrical, SAFEgroup Automation, Polaris Automation, Gray Solutions, and AXCEND Automation. Please give them a round of applause.
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Kat Jeschke: Another focus area for us is employee development. This year we continued to hire a lot of new employees, bringing our total employee count to 340 total employees. This means we've nearly tripled since 2020, which is incredible. It can be a challenge to grow so quickly and maintain company culture and core values, which is why I'm extremely proud of all the work each division has done to help us stay true to our founding principles. Along those lines we also leveraged our Inductive University platform this year and created a course dedicated to onboarding new employees, and we're gonna continue to expand the series in the coming year. We put a very strong emphasis on employee growth and employee development, which is why I'm extremely proud to let you know we've had nearly 90 internal promotions in the last year. And finally our Educational Engagement Program has continued to grow, and we now have over 100 universities in the program. What's even more exciting is we continue to invest in this program, and we recently created a team that is dedicated to helping create curriculum for schools. So with all these efforts working together, we're striving to make the best possible software, spread it around the world, and create a one-of-a-kind customer experience.
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Kat Jeschke: We've always believed that the impact of our software goes beyond what it can do on the plant floor. It extends to the impact it can have on people's lives. The fact is when people buy Ignition they usually have a specific purpose in mind, but then as they start using it, that purpose develops and grows, and it grows well past the original idea. So often what starts out as a solution to one problem grows organically over time to involve an entire plant, region, or even enterprise. This is because Ignition is unlimited both in licensing and functionality, and because it's backed by a company that is driven first and foremost by customer success. Together this can have quite the magic effect on the user, which we've taken to calling "The Ignition Effect."
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Kat Jeschke: The best way to understand the Ignition effect is to hear from the people that have experienced it. So we've created a whole new video series that highlights members of this community to show you the impact Ignition has had on their companies, industries, and lives. I'd like to give you a sneak peek of the series now.
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Bart Mans: For me, of course, it has a huge effect on my career.
01:04:13
Jerry Eppler: In like eight years I went from... I had never even heard of Ignition to now run a successful business.
01:04:19
Julio Velasco: Now, we've created a powerhouse right with Ignition from people who were straight out of the college.
01:04:24
Chris McLaughlin: If you happen to have even one year of experience actually implementing Ignition, seriously, there will be companies fighting over you.
01:04:32
Will Baker: Our hiring process has changed, where we're specifically calling out Ignition expertise.
01:04:36
Alicia Lomas: It kinda helps my chances of getting somebody excited about the role, being able to tell them that you're gonna be able to develop in Ignition.
01:04:45
J.C. Harrison: You had a lot of people ready for something different in the industrial automation.
01:04:49
Elizabeth Hill Reed: Ignition has allowed us to grow in our solutions that we're able to provide to customers.
01:04:55
Keith Gamble: I was building production applications and something that just came out of its beta.
01:05:00
Remus Pop: We flew out to Arizona on a Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon we had a fully deployed OEE system monitoring four assembly lines.
01:05:07
Steven Downer: We've been able to provide features that are asked for and requested.
01:05:11
Julio Velasco: There was a very solid line between the IT world and the controls world. Now that line is completely obliterated, right? It's gone.
01:05:20
Alicia Lomas: What Ignition did was kind of open up everybody's minds.
01:05:23
Arnaud De Clerck: The only limit is the creativity that you have.
01:05:28
Jerry Eppler: Once they get Ignition in place, it spreads like a virus, but in a good way.
01:05:32
Will Baker: It's changed the way that I communicate with customers.
01:05:34
Keith Gamble: We're really starting to open those doors where clients were previously terrified of custom code and applications that were unsupportable.
01:05:42
Chris McLaughlin: And you put Ignition in there and that changed everything.
01:05:46
Bart Mans: A lot of customers still write things down on paper as spreadsheets, type everything in, and then they do some analysis, and we can automate that.
01:05:53
Chris Taylor: It's about giving value, giving new information, new data, even if a customer hasn't asked for it.
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Evelyn Granizo: Before Ignition, the conversation with the customer were about limitation. The question now is, "What problem you need to solve?"
01:06:07
Remus Pop: The customer was so blown away that the next question was, "How fast can you deploy this to the rest of our company?"
01:06:15
Phillip Bourner: Everyone is sharing what they've done in the past, and everyone is taking that, innovating on top of it, making it better.
01:06:21
Arnaud De Clerck: When I saw the feedback on the LinkedIn from someone from Australia that say, "What? My resources is used in Australia? Come on."
01:06:30
Alicia Lomas: It would be kind of interesting to be the customer that kinda push some of these integrators towards Ignition.
01:06:38
Jerry Eppler: Why would you use 10 different pieces of software when none of them do exactly what you want, when you could build it exactly how you want?
01:06:44
Elizabeth Hill Reed: A lot was changing throughout the project, it was a very tight timeline, and I do not think that that project would have been possible without Ignition.
01:06:51
Chris Taylor: I swear we're not supposed to be doing the things we're doing, but Ignition is so flexible, it just allows us to do it.
01:07:00
Jonathan Swisher: Yeah, Ignition is a great solution because it's not tailored to any one industry.
01:07:06
Rob Raffaele: This is fundamentally what I think is a shift and really a game changer in the industry.
01:07:12
Remus Pop: What kinda shocked me a little bit is that Ignition is already almost everywhere, so.
01:07:18
Keith Gamble: Ignition was working its way into that education space, in a place that I don't think two years ago you would have ever seen.
01:07:25
Evelyn Granizo: It was exciting to see new talents being amazed by the power of the tool they were learning at the classroom.
01:07:31
Julio Velasco: His first day back he was like, "Oh, by the way, I finished the Inductive University. When can I get certified?" I was like, "What?"
01:07:40
Bart Mans: We did projects for really big companies in Europe.
01:07:42
Chris McLaughlin: So many people, they come from Australia and India and Sweden and Norway and Ecuador.
01:07:50
Madiha Javed: It's crazy kinda to see how far that software has gone.
01:07:53
Chris McLaughlin: And Canada and Mexico and all over the US.
01:08:00
Courtney Smith: We keep pushing the boundaries of what is actually possible with Ignition. How far can this thing go?
01:08:08
Elizabeth Hill Reed: I was actually the first person at TMC to learn Ignition.
01:08:11
Jerry Eppler: I think I was the first hire to actually go through Inductive University.
01:08:16
Jonathan Swisher: As far as I know, we were one of the first customers.
01:08:18
Bart Mans: I was the first Ignition programmer at the AT Automation.
01:08:21
Will Baker: It was a new world for me. I wasn't taught this stuff in school.
01:08:24
Remus Pop: I just went to Google and I googled off-the-shelf MES.
01:08:27
Chris McLaughlin: When I joined Vertech, they had done zero Ignition projects.
01:08:30
Alicia Lomas: And when the outbreak happened, I was in Italy with an equipment vendor.
01:08:34
Julio Velasco: In the Amazon jungle, teaching Ignition.
01:08:37
Keith Gamble: I knew your entire support staff on a first name basis.
01:08:41
Chris Taylor: That was the point at which I turned to my wife and I said, "We've got a huge opportunity."
01:08:49
Interviewer: What do you think the Ignition effect is?
01:08:53
J.C. Harrison: That's a good question.
01:09:00
Kat Jeschke: Pretty cool, huh?
01:09:07
Kat Jeschke: So The Ignition Effect launched today on our website along with five episodes, and we will release more throughout the year. In this series we documented a lot of incredible effects of Ignition, which all center around how Ignition is helping obliterate the line between IT and OT, to shift mindsets from limitations to solutions and make the impossible possible for people all across the globe. Helping people everywhere, "Dream It, Do It" is why we make software, and it's what drives us to keep elevating our organization. To talk more about how we're doing that, please help me welcome back to the stage Inductive Automation's CEO, Colby Clegg.
01:09:53
Colby Clegg: Thank you, Kat. Thank you. Well, as you can see, we've grown a lot as a company and a community. We're on a path and a trajectory that we've been on for a long time now. And frankly, I see no reason why it should slow down. But we all know, everyone here knows that growth is a challenge. Growth can be difficult. As we grow in resources, in stature, and in reach, there are real difficulties to confront. How do we maintain and scale the true essence of who we are and what you all love about us? How do we grow in sophistication and maturity to serve the needs of the large global enterprises that are approaching us every day now without forsaking the innovative early adopters and the dynamic integrators who have been here to support us since the beginning? Finally, with so much opportunity in front of us, how do we resist the urge to splinter out and dilute our focus, as unfortunately, so many companies do?
01:10:57
Colby Clegg: Well, these are all important questions, and we think about them all the time. And while not easy, I am confident that we can be successful, and we can do that by coming back and staying true to our core mission. From our founding, our mission has ultimately been extremely simple: to create tools that empower you to get things done. We took a far different route to build our company than most companies would, choosing to grow in an organic and independent way with no outside investment or influence. And we did that because we knew this industry needed someone it could trust, someone who ultimately only had one goal: their success.
01:11:42
Colby Clegg: That requires vision, and it requires independence. Today, we greatly value that independence. As a business, of course, we have all of the same goals and aspirations that any business should, but at the end of the day the only person we have to truly answer to is you, our customer. It hasn't been easy, and we've worked since the beginning, all together, led by Steve's vision to make this independence stable and viable. As I've settled into this role over the last 18 months, this has taken on a new light for me. I've been reminded in so many ways how this independence is vital to achieving our core mission. It gives me the confidence to say that we can continue to grow in a way that is responsible and beneficial to this community, growing not just for the sake of growth but growing with purpose. This lets us confront any challenges that might arise because we can always come back to that purpose: empower you to get things done. Our independence makes us unique, and we are fully dedicated to maintaining that.
01:12:51
Colby Clegg: It's important for me to highlight that this morning, because I do believe it is the cornerstone of what sets us apart. Our competitive advantage is far more than our software. It's the entire experience that you have with us. It is our software, but it's our support, our philosophies, unlimited access, open data, free knowledge transfer, all of that works together to create an experience that leads to that amazing Ignition effect that Kat just introduced. Ultimately, it's this experience that sets us apart from the competition, and that makes being a member of this community so special. That means that as we grow, we ultimately have to protect and then enhance that experience. And I'm very excited to highlight our dedication to that this morning.
01:13:40
Colby Clegg: A vital part of the Inductive Automation experience is the amazing personal service that we provide in every way, from the advice that our sales and sales engineering teams give to the incredible tech support we offer. It's all based on the personal conviction of our staff that their ultimate goal is to make you successful. A key element of our approach to this service has historically focused on keeping our staff close together, united by our office here in Folsom. There are important benefits to this especially as we manage everything we do ourselves with no outsourcing. It's important that all areas of the company can be in close and efficient communication. The downside, of course, is that even though we can interact with the whole world and even as a remote-first company now, we're still very localized to this region and time zone.
01:14:31
Colby Clegg: As part of our strategy to address this, we've leaned onto our Integrator Program and of course have established our international distribution program. Both of these groups work every day to reach customers in their own time zones and their own languages, and our distributors are truly doing a wonderful job of representing all of our core values in their parts of the world. However, both continue to rely on Inductive Automation for high-level support, and of course, there are many functions that only we can fill. If we're going to succeed in pushing the envelope on the experience that all of our customers have, our distributors, our integrators, our end users, we have to expand. And that is exactly what I'm thrilled to present to you this morning with the introduction of Inductive Automation Australia.
01:15:27
Colby Clegg: Australia is an excellent strategic location because it gives us direct coverage over a significant and important part of the world. This is the home of iControls, our long-time distributor and partner, and they have done a tremendous job of opening up and developing this market. We've reached an agreement to bring over the staff and assets of iControls as Inductive Automation Australia, meaning that immediately we have a full team of knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and dedicated staff, ready and excited to help provide the best experience possible in this important region of the world.
01:16:03
Colby Clegg: Not only will Australia give us the opportunity to provide more support and resources to our current customers, it'll also give us a great base of operations on which to ramp up our sales and marketing efforts to other vital countries in this region over time. We also look forward to being able to offer extended tech support, reducing response times and the need for after-hour support for all of our customers. This will, of course, ramp up over time, and as of this morning we have an announcement up on our website, laying out our timeline and our plans over the next few months. But coming back to a high level, this means that after 20 years, Inductive Automation is finally a multinational company. As our community grows to span the entire globe, we wanna be right there with you to provide the best experience possible. Please help me in welcoming the New Australian members of Inductive Automation, now joining us today and remotely.
01:17:19
Colby Clegg: Well, since I mentioned 20 years, when I think that Inductive Automation turns 20 this year, what excites me the most isn't how far we've come, it's how far we can go. This anniversary is a milestone to be certain. It's a testament to Steve and Wendi-Lynn's vision and drive to push forward when most of the industry thought that the established solutions were as far as we could go. But it's clear to me that this year is so much more. It's a starting point for what's to come. Ignition was developed with all kinds of features to break down barriers, but perhaps the most powerful feature of all isn't anything that we coded it to do. It's the fact that by removing limits, Ignition brings people, data, and ideas together. This morning you've seen many examples of that and have seen that the heights to which this community can elevate automation are truly unlimited. You've learned how companies are making Digital Transformation a reality today.
01:18:22
Colby Clegg: You've seen the impact that we can have on society by leveraging Ignition for more than just automation. You've seen our dedication to growing with purpose and striving to provide an ever richer and more fulfilling experience to this entire community. Ultimately, every day we all have different challenges to confront, new technologies to figure out trying to find the best path forward. But I know there's no better place for innovation and world-changing progress to be made than right here in this community. Supporting you is our purpose, and we promise to do everything we can to be there for you for the next 20 years, just as you've been here to support us for the first 20. With that, I welcome you once again to ICC 2023, and hope you have a wonderful conference.
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Build-a-Thon
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Build-A-Thon
The 2021 Build-a-Thon was the first ever to feature members of the Ignition community battling it out head-to-head. This year, we invited all of Inductive Automation’s Premier Integrators to apply for a chance to wear the Build-a-Thon blazer, and after three rounds of challenges, the final two integrators, DMC and Roeslein & Associates, will face off at the conference.
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IA Session
Running Ignition in a Container Environment
Leveraging Docker can be a powerful technology for rolling out large systems and setting up flexible development environments. In this session, you'll hear practical tips for running Ignition in a container environment from Inductive Automation's Docker expert.
45 min video
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2022
Community Session
How Far We've Come - Ignition Across the Enterprise
Ignition was always great for solving problems and beloved by Operations. But could it scale? Could it be deployed across an enterprise? Could it stand up to scrutiny in the boardroom while execs are aligning on their digital strategy? Absolutely. Over the past several years, Brock Solutions has been deploying Ignition across enterprises, helping customers accelerate their digital transformations. But don't take it from Brock; hear it from our customers' mouths about how and why Ignition has become the real deal in their enterprise landscape.
42 min video
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Performance Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Gateway Networks
Getting the most out of your Ignition gateway network is important to your system’s performance, especially for large implementations. In this session, you’ll get expert tips about how to optimize the performance of your gateway network for heavy workloads.
60 min video
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Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Stone Brewing Successfully Implements Modern Batch System
In this session, Stone Brewing and Wunderlich-Malec Engineering will showcase the first successful implementation of Sepasoft’s Batch Procedure Module. Going into the project, Stone Brewing hoped to upgrade to a flexible and modern batch system that could handle complex recipes. With the support of Wunderlich-Malec, Stone Brewing easily configured the module to replicate existing processes. Attend this session to learn about Stone Brewing’s quick adoption of Batch Procedure and more project highlights.
47 min video
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2022
Community Session
Ignition: The New Enterprise Connection Platform
The quest for greater productivity and reduced costs is driving market forces and investments into new projects trying to combat today’s challenges from the supply chain, labor, and inflation. Learn how Ignition has advanced from the “New SCADA Platform'' to become the standard tool for OT-to-IT Enterprise Digital Transformation. The session will discuss and demonstrate how Ignition with MQTT/Sparkplug is the “Swiss Army knife” Digital Transformation platform from the edge to the cloud to achieve these goals. Get your Enterprise ready to Xperience and Xplore the serendipitous nature of your OT data!
48 min video
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2022
IA Session
Modern Cloud Deployment Strategies
With the systems getting larger and the need for flexibility increasing, effectively running Ignition in the cloud can be a powerful deployment strategy. In this session, Inductive Automation’s architecture experts will talk about how to utilize the cloud for modern deployment strategies.
48 min video
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2022
Panel
Drain The Data Lake - Model And Contextualize Your OT Data at the Edge
Join a panel of Ignition community experts who helped the State of Indiana launch a Digital Transformation program for manufacturers quickly and simply. Energy data, manufacturing output, and other OT data can be collected and modeled in-plant, and efficiently published into cloud infrastructure and unsupervised AI for actionable insights with a pre-built “I4.0 in a Box” solution.
48 min video
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2022
Panel
Integrator Panel: How Integration Has Changed & Where It's Going
This panel will bring together some of the Ignition community's most accomplished integrators to discuss how the industry has shifted over the past decade and what technologies and practices will be vital in the future. From IIoT-enabled hardware and cutting-edge security tools to eliminating paper from the plant floor, changes in the last 10 years have altered how integrators approach business and opened up new opportunities. But which areas still have room for refinement and innovation? Hear experienced professionals give their insight and answer your questions about the industry's past, present, and future.
45 min video
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2022
Community Session
Unlocking Innovation & Delivering New Services Through Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation has accelerated as a result of the pandemic as nearly every industry and every company has had to adapt to changing work conditions, market conditions, and environmental conditions. Those companies that are thriving in this new normal have uncovered new value in leveraging technology to accelerate innovation cycles and deliver entirely new products, services, and even business models. Imagine fully recovering from this pandemic better off than before it started with entirely new revenue streams that fill the revenue gaps with even greater profitability through new channels. Learn how this can be done and hear the stories of companies who have succeeded.
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Panel
Industry Panel: Exploring Digital Transformation
It takes coordination to revamp processes or upgrade machinery, but it’s a far more complicated task to establish change all the way from the plant floor to the C-suite. While the necessary Digital Transformation of manual operations may look different across a variety of industries, the critical benefits of increased stability, flexibility, and security remain consistent. Hear from a panel of industry thought leaders and experts as they explore how enterprise-wide solutions have led their companies to a new level of growth and answer your questions about large-scale Digital Transformation.
64 min video
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2022
Keynote
Technical Keynote & Developer Panel
This year, the co-creators of Ignition, Colby Clegg and Carl Gould will be expanding the traditional developer panel into a new format. In this new Technical Keynote, Colby and Carl will cover the recent progress of Ignition and look at the roadmap for the near future of the platform. They will also get some help from a few Software Engineering Division all-stars to give further insight into specific aspects of the platform like security, advanced analytics, and design tools.
65 min video
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2021
Build-a-Thon
IA Department of Funk 2021 Music Video
ICC 2021's Halftime Show Premiered the The IA Department of Funk’s video for their original song “Champion,” which made the Build-a-Thon even more entertaining.
4 min video
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2022
International Session
Uso de Bibliotecas Javascript no Perspective com Web Dev Module
Aprenda a utilizar os recursos do módulo Perspective junto ao módulo Web Dev paraacessar bibliotecas externas e exibir conteúdos gráficos diversos (Mapas, Gráficos, etc) emsuas páginas do Perspective de forma dinâmica.
16 min video
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International Session
Architetture Flessibili e Modulari per Progetti di Trasformazione Digitale Compiuti
Ignition è la piattaforma software che permette di implementare progetti di digitalizzazione industriale con architetture capaci di adattarsi alle diverse esigenze applicative. Durante il webinar, verranno illustrate le possibilità offerte dalla flessibilità e dall’apertura della piattaforma attualmente utilizzata con successo da oltre il 50% delle aziende Fortune 500. A differenza degli SCADA tradizionali, Ignition permette di realizzare progetti in ottica IIoT per il governo completo dei processi digitali in ambito produttivo.
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2022
Panel
Education & Industry Panel: Preparing the Workforce of the Future
Often, the difference between what you need to know to walk across that stage and get your diploma, degree, certificate, or credential is vastly different from what you need to know to be successful in your first entry-level position. Curriculum and program development happen in vastly different ways, from four-year colleges and universities to technical colleges, to community/junior colleges. How we, as an industry, communicate to address what we are seeing in the field is imperative to providing the engineer of tomorrow with the appropriate skill sets to encourage success. That conversation starts with industry and academia coming together to discuss the topics important to the ever-changing landscape of industrial technology. Join David Grussenmeyer, University Engagement Manager at Inductive Automation, for a panel discussion composed of four faculty members from different educational institutions and learn how their efforts to collaborate with Industry are changing the educational landscape for our workforce of tomorrow.
42 min video
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2022
Community Session
Deploying the Digital Foundations of a Modern, Connected Factory
Digital factory architectures usually grow organically as business requirements evolve and new technologies are developed. Modern technologies and approaches such as infrastructure-as-code, containerization, orchestration, and edge-driven operations solve many problems presented by legacy, organic, point-to-point based architectures. This presentation will give an overview of Factory+, a Sparkplug-powered, open-access digital factory framework developed by the AMRC, and how it can be used to rapidly and reliably deploy, manage and scale the digital foundations of a forward-thinking manufacturing facility.
25 min video
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International Session
Dalle Patch 4.0 Alla Trasformazione Digitale Completa. Ignition, Catalizzatore di un’Offerta End-to-End
Ignition è la piattaforma abilitante che aiuta le aziende ad intraprendere un percorso che porta a una digitalizzazione completa e compiuta. Durante il webinar, mostreremo come sfruttare le opportunità normative per l’industria 4.0 e il PNRR per estendere anche alle PMI, e di conseguenza al “sistema Italia”,una vera Digital Transformation, che porti all’implementazione di progetti digitali compiuti e non parziali.
34 min video
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International Session
Trucos en Perspective Que no Conocías
En esta sesión vamos a cubrir todas aquellas herramientas que están dentro del módulo Perspective que son nuevas en la integración de sistemas industriales para que puedas aprovecharlas para hacer ciclos de desarrollo más rápidos, una distribución mejor organizada en tus pantallas y aplicaciones de apariencia optimizada.
31 min video
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International Session
Le Funzionalità di Ignition Edge: Raccolta ed Elaborazione Dati alla Fonte
La struttura aperta e distribuita della piattaforma Ignition e della sua versione Edge apre nuove frontiere e tendenze per la Data-Driven Automation. Grazie all’infinita scalabilità e alle potenzialità di Ignition Edge è possibile integrare tutti i dispositivi presenti nel factory floor, compresi quelli al margine della rete, estendendo così la raccolta, l’elaborazione e la visualizzazione a tutti i dati essenziali per un processo industriale efficiente. Nel corso del webinar verranno presentate le funzionalità di Ignition Edge e i vantaggi derivanti dalla disponibilità del set più completo di dati per poter dar vita a una trasformazione digitale compiuta.
30 min video
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International Session
Desbloquee los Datos de su Planta
A veces, ya tenemos un Tag Historian en nuestro conjunto de herramientas, entonces, ¿por qué necesitarías SQL Bridge? O si ya tengo SQL Bridge, ¿por qué necesito Tag Historian? Le enseñaremos cómo se pueden combinar SQL Bridge y Tag Historian para hacer un mejor uso de las bases de datos y los datos históricos de su planta.
29 min video
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International Session
Sikker innlogging til Ignition med BankID og Vipps
Slik sikrer du innlogging i Ignition ved å bruke moderne elektronisk identifikasjon for sikker identifikasjon.
11 min video
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International Session
Dynamisk brukergrensesnitt i Ignition Perspective
Bli med på denne demoen for å se hvordan du kan endre informasjon i integrerte vinduer i Ignition’s Perspective modul, basert på hva som er valgt i hovedvinduet. På denne måten kan du enkelt vise informasjon for et objekt sine trender, alarmer og parametere, uten bruk av pop-up vinduer. Vi utforsker de ulike metodene og ser på det resulterende brukergrensesnittet sammen.
27 min video
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International Session
Reverse Proxy mit automatischer SSL/TLS Verschlüsselung auf Docker
Erstellen einer Ignition Instanz als Container in einer Docker Umgebung mit geschütztem Zugang über einen Reverse Proxy (Traefik) welcher alle Zertifikate (Let’s Encript) automatisch erstellt.
8 min video
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International Session
How to Best Plan Your Perspective Project
Join us for practical insights on how to ensure success with the Ignition Perspective Module. Whether you're starting your first Ignition Perspective project or want to understand how to best approach your next project, this is the session for you. We’ll cover Perspective’s powerful features, server sizing and architecture design and how to set goals for your design and layout, with considerations for best practice implementations, to achieve faster development.
22 min video
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2022
International Session
Industrie 4.0 - von der digitalen zur wandlungsfähigen Fabrik für die Kleinserien- und Eigenmarkenproduktion
Die industrielle Fertigung, egal ob Auftrags-, Chargen- oder Fließfertigung, muss die Anforderungen an Belastbarkeit, Anpassungsfähigkeit und Flexibilität erfüllen. Wir zeigen die Vorteile von Ignition für die Kleinserien- und Private label Fertigung.
26 min video
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2022
International Session
Living on the Edge
The iControls team explore the Edge-to-Enterprise Architecture, showcasing the deployment and configuration of the different flavors of the edge licensing, from a single machine level HMI to an enterprise architecture where each edge gateway becomes a reliable source of data from the process, through either gateway network services or MQTT implementation.
61 min video
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Community Session
Key Trends Helping Industry Overcome Digital Transformation Challenges
Digital Transformation is essential for industrial companies to meet the challenges of thriving in an environment where the only certainty is uncertainty. This is driving demand for deploying key technologies to better monitor and control operations, protect against downtime, ensure product fulfillment and high productivity, protect and upskill personnel, enable remote workforces, manage supply chains, and do this while leveraging enhanced cybersecurity architectures. To help industrial companies meet these challenges, this presentation will discuss what are the key technologies and trends that can help these companies accelerate Digital Transformation that enables improved productivity, profitability, agility, reliability, sustainability, resilience and efficiency.
48 min video
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2022
IA Session
Top Tips For Great Mobile Interface Design
Good mobile design makes it easy for users to see and control their system right from their phone, but making a good mobile design isn’t necessarily easy. This session will cover some of the best mobile design tips for creating interfaces that deliver a great user experience.
47 min video
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2022
IA Session
Using Ignition with Machine Learning Libraries
Using Ignition and machine learning libraries can be a powerful combination. Inductive Automation's machine learning experts will lead conference attendees through practical applications for ML, along with typical ML setups that Ignition users could implement on their own systems.
51 min video
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2022
Community Session
Ingestion to Insights
In this informative session, attendees will learn how a manufacturer – or any automation setting – can successfully begin their industry 4.0 journey. Starting with data collection, then moving to data visualization, alerting, and analytics, Ignition allows organizations to do it all. And, with multiple web-based architectural options, Ignition offers flexibility while keeping cyber security in mind.
50 min video
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Community Session
Changes Towards The Digital Transformation - Turn and Face The Strange
While data acquisition systems at the process level have become increasingly universal, the true Digital Transformation vision – the integration of all data across an organization to higher levels within a company - still faces a number of hurdles around bandwidth, multiple data-entry points, and conflicting software platforms. Here, we present how SCADA-driven data via Ignition with Starlink Satellite-Based Broadband can be combined with manual-entry mobile Perspective applications to provide a rich data source at the field and operations level. Once in the cloud, that data, in turn, can then be combined through API-based integrations with third-party platforms to provide higher-level insights to Research, Business Development, Engineering, Financial, and Executive divisions. Thus, from Operator to CEO, Ignition provides a true data integration platform up and down an organization.
46 min video
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2022
Keynote
Main Keynote: Exploring 10 Years of Growth & Innovation
This year marks Inductive Automation’s tenth year hosting the Ignition Community Conference! In that time, it’s been amazing to see the community's growth and the positive impact its members have made on the industry. For this year’s company keynote, you’ll hear from Inductive Automation’s leadership team about the growth and direction of our company and our community as we celebrate the last decade and look forward to what’s to come.
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This session will show how a regional municipal council in Australia has implemented the next generation of remote telemetry monitoring and data-driven decision-making across their wastewater assets for a fraction of the cost of their peers. You’ll hear directly from the Alexandrina Council about how the Ignition system has fundamentally changed how they leverage data to interact with their assets. You will also hear from the technical team from SAGE Automation about implementing multi-device SCADA displays and the practical challenges that MQTT can present.
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2022
Community Session
Git Serious: Hybrid Cloud Deployment with DevOps
With Digital Transformation becoming more mainstream, we continue to see an increased adoption of enabling technologies like the cloud. But not all companies are willing or able to go "all-in" on cloud just yet. In this session, 4IR Solutions’ CTO Joe Dolivo will walk you through how to use Ignition to track and promote changes across multiple environments, no matter where they're hosted. Operational Technology leadership at Cameco Fuel Manufacturing will also walk you through the plans for their own hybrid cloud deployment, intended to run heavy production workloads on site while leveraging the cloud for remote site workloads, testing instances, backups, and monitoring.
49 min video
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IA Session
Learning Ignition Fundamentals
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Inductive Automation's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to get started with Ignition.
51 min video
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Community Session
Sepasoft's Low-Code Approach to Simplifying MES
MES can be one of the most challenging systems to implement due to the sheer number of departments, roles, manufacturing sites, and production scenarios involved. Learn about Sepasoft’s various initiatives that simplify the MES rollout. From the low-code capabilities of the Batch Procedure Module and Business Connector Suite, in addition to MES Starter Projects, Sepasoft is taking measures to simplify implementation development and set users up for success.
45 min video
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2022
Build-a-Thon
IA Department of Funk 2022 Music Video
The ICC Build-A-Thon is by far the most outrageous and fun session of the entire conference. Every year our internal band puts together a song for no reason at all. Here is our 2022 music video. Enjoy!
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2022
Keynote
Celebrating 10 Years of ICC
Seeing the community growth over the last 10 years at ICC has been extremely rewarding. Inductive Automation wouldn't be where it is today without you. Our Ignition Community Conference has always been about the exchange of ideas and the exploration of what's possible. It's a great way to connect and learn about all that our users accomplish with Ignition. In honor of how much this community has inspired us over the years, we put together a fun video to look back on 10 years of ICC!
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2021
Keynote
| Building Automation
Keynote: Smarter. Faster. Stronger.
At ICC 2019, we discussed the limitless possibilities of Ignition. Last year we envisioned the bright future of innovation in store for the Ignition community. Now, at ICC 2021, as the industrial world changes, the community continues to evolve to create smarter, faster, and stronger solutions than ever before. Join the leaders of Inductive Automation as they discuss the growth of the company and the community over the last year. In this year’s keynote, we’ll celebrate the community’s innovation by looking at the fantastic success they are achieving using the Ignition platform to evolve the industry for the better.
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A medida que más dispositivos interactúan con nuestros sistemas, la ciberseguridad comienza a convertirse en una gran preocupación para todos. Descubra cómo Ignition aborda estas amenazas con cifrado, autenticación, certificados de confianza y más.
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| Agriculture
Evolved Enterprise Operations for Clover South Africa (English)
Leading South African branded foods and beverages group Clover Industries adopted Ignition by Inductive Automation® to meet crucial system technology requirements. In this panel discussion, Francois and Deon from Clover share their needs, architecture overview, and multi-site implementation approach, including new standards and templates and the coordination of several System Integrator partners. We'll also talk through the valuable lessons learned and challenges overcome during implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
39 min video
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2021
International Session
| Agriculture
Evolving Water Operation's Edge with Ignition and MQTT (English)
In this conversation with Brian Cooper from INTEG System Integrators, we'll share how Ignition and MQTT transformed the operations of the Oudtshoorn municipality in South Africa. Situated in the Klein Karoo region of the Western Cape, Oudtshoorn is a water-scarce region. Visibility, measurement, and effective control of irrigation systems and borehole levels are crucial, both to reduce waste of available water resources and minimize variability in flow regimes and recharge. Using small and cost-effective Edge devices and standard protocols, MQTT and Ignition by Inductive Automation® solved several challenges. There are lower operating costs, enterprise-wide and real-time visibility, and reduced response times, from five minutes to mere seconds.
30 min video
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Conozca lo que Ignition es capaz de hacer con sus datos históricos. Desde la creación de tendencias sobre la marcha hasta la realización de cálculos complejos en la aplicación, exploramos las capacidades más interesantes del software que puede utilizar en sus aplicaciones.
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2021
International Session
| Food and Beverage
Industry 4.0 Turns 10 Years Old - Ignition is the Ideal Present (English)
Industry 4.0 as a concept is 10 years old in 2021. We look back at where it started, how the idea has adapted pre- and during the pandemic, and then look at how Ignition fits the manufacturing and processing landscape as we emerge into the new normal.
15 min video
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2021
International Session
| Agriculture
Costruisci un Futuro Digitale con Ignition (Italian)
Parti dal basso, utilizzando asset esistenti e un approccio infinitamente scalabile partendo dalle reali esigenze del cliente. In questa sessione esploreremo come Ignition consente di determinare in anticipo il costo dell'infrastruttura digitale e fornisce gli strumenti ideali per System Integrator, OEM, produttori finali e manager della finanza aziendale.
41 min video
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2021
International Session
| Manufacturing
Mobile HMI-Lösungen - Ihre Anlage auf jedem Gerät (German)
Mobile Geräte haben in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten eine Vielzahl von Geräten obsolet gemacht. Mit der Leistung von Ignition können Sie Ihr mobiles Gerät zu einer vollwertigen HMI weiterentwickeln.
26 min video
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2021
International Session
| Manufacturing
Dataops mit Ignition - Setzen Sie Ihre Anlagendaten dort ein, wo Sie sie brauchen (German)
Die Architektur mit offenen Standards ermöglicht neue Anwendungen, indem sie die volle Leistungsfähigkeit Ihrer Anlagendaten nutzt. Mit der Ignition-Plattform werden grenzenlose Konnektivitätsmöglichkeiten und ein hohes Mass an Datensicherheit erreicht.
21 min video
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2021
International Session
| Building Automation
Mobilresponsiv Design (Norwegian)
Du lager enkelt fullverdige, industrielle applikasjoner i HTML5 for overvåking og kontroll av prosesser på mobilenheten, PC-en og berøringspanelet. Enten de er for SCADA, HMI eller et annet formål, vil programmene du bygger i Perspektiv bli profesjonelle, og kunne brukes på enhver enhet og nettleser.
25 min video
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2021
International Session
| Agriculture
Ignition Edge: Capacità di Trasformazione Digitale (Italian)
Grazie alla struttura aperta e distribuita della piattaforma Ignition e di Ignition Edge, è possibile creare architetture estese in grado di migliorare l'efficienza di interi sistemi. Ignition, grazie alla sua infinita scalabilità e alle potenzialità di Ignition Edge, permette di integrare tutti i dispositivi di campo e funge da piattaforma per la realizzazione di reti industriali ad alta efficienza. Le capacità architetturali e la modellazione dei dati attraverso l'utilizzo di DataOps, già a livello di dispositivi Edge, sono elementi che consentono la trasformazione digitale sfruttando appieno le potenzialità del Cloud, della moderna comunicazione e delle tecniche di elaborazione dati.
33 min video
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2021
Build-a-Thon
| Aerospace
Ignition Build-A-Thon: Vertech vs. Flexware
Travis, Kevin, and Kent are back for an all-new and evolved Build-a-Thon! This time, instead of keeping the glory all for themselves, Travis and Kevin will each be coaching a new competitor from two of the top integration companies in the Ignition community, Vertech and Flexware, to compete for the Build-a-Thon belt. Join us at this year’s jam-packed, live-streamed competition for bigger fun, bigger laughs, and bigger builds as the competitors build “next-gen” versions of an HMI and dashboard, using their own newly developed Ignition Exchange resource.
74 min video
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2021
Panel
| Aerospace
Integrator Panel: Which New Technologies are Fads or the Future
During this panel discussion, you'll hear the leaders of some of the Ignition community's most successful integration companies discuss new technologies and innovations that are evolving the industry. Ideas and terms like IIoT and the cloud once seemed foreign but are now increasingly commonplace within the industrial sphere. What new trends and innovations will prove to be more than just buzzwords, but actual mainstays key to a company’s future success? How are automation professionals responding to these technologies? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what actually adds value within the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.
59 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Manufacturing
3 Tips to Evolve Your Ignition System's Communication to PLCs
In this session, you'll get some great Ignition tips for communicating to PLCs. You'll learn about writing to separate tags to ensure data integrity and robust logic, leveraging direct OPC reads to obtain data synchronization, and using JSON-derived tags to reduce communication load with a PLC-hosted OPC UA server.
33 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Electronics
Discover Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Sepasoft MES
Explore new possibilities to evolve your MES architecture quickly and more robustly than ever before. From controlling critical processes and procedures to tracking quality and performance, our new ISA-88 Batch and Procedure Module and other solutions empower manufacturers to identify and reduce manufacturing bottlenecks. Learn how Sepasoft MES solves major pain points, from small to enterprise-wide MES implementations.
59 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Automotive
Supporting Worldwide Digital Transformation with Ignition in the Cloud
Ignition is capable of more than just SCADA; it can support digital transformation by offering the possibility to create parametric services in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. HTC uses Perspective, the WebDev Module, and REST APIs on a cloud platform to help their international customers complete their digital transformation journeys. In this session, HTC will illustrate the architecture they use and their customers' results by using a scalable, secure, mobile, geographically distributed system that enables services like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Ignition back-end and front-end architectures, gateway networks, high availability, Ignition Edge, and MQTT will be addressed in this session.
31 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Manufacturing
Embracing the Cloud: How 4IR Solutions' Ignition-Powered Platform Accelerates Life Sciences and Manufacturing
Industrial organizations, particularly in regulated industries like Life Sciences, have historically been hesitant to store GxP data in the cloud. But with COVID-19 pushing many organizations into accelerating their digital transformation roadmaps, the cloud has become a differentiating, and in some cases essential, technology that allows manufacturers to stay competitive through cost savings while enabling new ways to drive value. With deep experience in the Life Sciences industry, 4IR Solutions has developed a new cloud-hosted platform powered by Ignition, designed to meet the unique regulatory and compliance challenges faced by Life Science manufacturers, including Data Integrity and 21 CFR Part 11. This session will provide an inside look at how this platform makes Ignition a Smarter, Faster, Stronger tool by putting security first while enhancing Ignition's core capabilities through integration with cloud-native technologies. Executives from 4IR Solutions will provide an overview and demonstration of the platform and discuss how system integrators and manufacturers alike can leverage their existing Ignition skills to deliver secure, compliant, and cloud-enhanced solutions on top of 4IR's managed platform.
19 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Energy
Real-World, Practical and Achievable Transformation Using Ignition and Ignition Edge
In this session, you'll learn how Streamline uses Ignition and Ignition Edge to enhance operational assets from the field to the boardroom, empowering organizations with the data they need to make important decisions in a meaningful way. Join Streamline Controls in exploring IoT/MQTT ecosystems by walking through examples and use cases of how they build solutions that can deploy to any operational asset to start consuming and leveraging OT data.
20 min video
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2021
Panel
| Building Automation
ICC 2021 Developer Panel
What’s coming up for Ignition? What new features and fixes do the developers have planned for the next year? Join us for this year’s all-new, live-streamed Developer Panel featuring Inductive Automation’s VP of Technology, Colby Clegg, and Director of Software Engineering, Carl Gould, as they tackle your questions and give insight into what’s in store for the Ignition Platform.
61 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Automotive
OMG APIs - How and Why You Should Integrate with Ignition Using APIs
In this session, you'll see various use cases that integrate Ignition with APIs to enrich applications and solve real-world problems such as alerting for location tracking, weather monitoring, integrating with a firewall — and something fun! You'll also learn through demonstrations about using authentication with API keys.
28 min video
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2021
Panel
| Food and Beverage
Industry Panel: Enterprise Evolution - Successes and Challenges of Digital Transformation
Shifting away from manual data processes through digital transformation has proven to be critical for a company’s stability, security, and growth, but it’s also easier said than done. Join thought leaders and experts from various automation verticals as they discuss the challenges and benefits of digital transformation at the enterprise level, share their personal experiences, and answer your questions about digital transformation.
59 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Data Center
MQTT - Invented for SCADA, Adopted by IT, Solving Digital Transformation Today
Although MQTT was first invented for efficient SCADA communications and decoupling of data 20 years ago, it has been adopted by cloud service providers to become a dominant cloud IIoT messaging technology. Using a live SCADA infrastructure, we'll share new Ignition module capabilities, new wireless technologies, and Ignition's native Data Ops tooling to demonstrate how efficiently OT data is shared across the entire enterprise. Whether you are tasked with implementing digital transformation strategies, adopting big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or simply looking to incorporate wireless sensors into Ignition cost-effectively, this session will provide a path forward for your projects.
54 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Aerospace
Collaborating on Digital Transformation for Enterprise Scale!
A panel of longtime Ignition users and integrators discuss the challenges and successes of tackling Ignition deployments at an enterprise scale. Learn about how collaboration with other integrators can unlock opportunities to take on global projects. We will discuss what it's like to have three to four different companies working together to complete a project and how to make sure the customer's needs are always front and center.
29 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Energy
Ignition Platform: Enabling Scripting for Smart Manufacturing
In this session, Automation Excellence will be showcasing three case studies that highlight the power, flexibility, and versatility of the Ignition Platform to adapt to multiple industrial applications, including HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT. In addition, you'll learn how Ignition works with other smart ecosystems through its open connectivity, ability to work with multiple product vendors, and support of numerous communication protocols.
32 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Automotive
Creating Perspective Graphics Using Inkscape
This session will offer a quick introduction to the Inkscape vector design program and a hands-on demonstration of how to use Inkscape to create SVG files, import them into Perspective, and animate them in Ignition.
31 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Containers and Packaging
Keeping the Cure, Secure:COVID-19 Vaccine Batch Monitoring
Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical arm, Janssen, embarked on a global effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and worked with a contract manufacturer to supply one billion doses of vaccine. Large-scale manufacturing of Janssen's vaccine would occur at the contract manufacturing site, specializing in rapidly manufacturing vaccines and other treatments in large quantities during public health emergencies. Janssen required access to near-real-time data to monitor key production and quality metrics and to assure the success of each batch. The contract manufacturer's Operation Technology infrastructure of control systems and data collection is isolated from internal and outside networks — particularly networks with internet access. The contract manufacturer tasked Automation Control Concepts (ACC) with creating a secure data pipeline providing this information to Janssen, which is an evolution in the collaboration between contract manufacturers and vaccine developers, as historical data is usually exchanged via Excel or text files after the batch is completed. In this session, learn how ACC used Ignition to provide the real-time data required to react to deviations immediately and save batches that would otherwise be lost.
18 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Construction Materials
How to Develop a Low-Cost, Open Source Machine Learning Solution Using Ignition
The benefits of applying machine learning in complex industrial systems can be immense, and Enuda has found an open-source approach using Ignition that can give the benefits of ML at a low cost. In this session, you'll learn how they did it by exploring their considerations, testing (and failures), as well as why they decided on using a combination of Docker, Flask framework, and Ignition to create their solution. The session will include an example using the chosen environment for a practical case, and advice on how to get started with machine learning and Ignition.
30 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Practical Smart Water Solutions Capitalizing on the Digital Wave
The demand for reliable, secure, and scalable automation technology is growing exponentially in the water/wastewater industry. Municipalities struggle with “data silos” that limit the flow and availability of information to the various stakeholders and systems, limiting insights that can be gleaned from the operation. At Brock, we are using Ignition to break open these silos and aggregate disparate data sources into a connected central point, providing a complete view from tap to treatment of the water operation.
30 min video
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2021
Community Session
| Aerospace
Top 7 UI Design Tips in Perspective
Users crave a UI experience that is intuitive, efficient, memorable, and visually pleasing. Unfortunately, industrial automation projects can be 100% functional and still miss the mark because of poor design. Good UI standards improve user experience and function, reduce training time, and help ensure long-term use of the system. In this session, you'll hear specific UI strategies that you can use right now to improve your applications in Perspective. Slash the learning curve on beautiful interface design with straightforward tips from a developer's point of view.
29 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
Scaling MES with Sepasoft
25 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
Blockchain-Based Operator Logs and Ignition Auditing
Most automated processes require tracking of system status and performance, including operator responses to process upsets. Typically, this is accomplished using a physical notebook, as it is relatively tamper-proof. Using Ignition’s built-in Audit Log, this process can be done digitally, but it’s possible to alter and tamper with after data has been entered. In order to prevent tampering of the digital operator log, Corso Systems has built a tool using blockchain technology to ensure records are not changed, including distributed validation to ensure data integrity and limit the impact of bad actors trying to interfere with the system. This session will cover the implementation and methodology of this technology, real-world use cases, and show how this tool helps keep Ignition at the forefront of digital operations.
30 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
How to Build a Homeless Shelter Operations Management System in Perspective
Anything is possible with a dream and the Ignition community. Case in point: More than 30 engineers banded together to build an Operations Management System in Perspective for a homeless shelter in Nashville. Join Chris McLaughlin as he shares how a group of people working nights and weekends for free can leverage Ignition to create a unified platform to replace multiple other softwares and help serve people in need.
36 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Manufacturing
The Quickest and Simplest Method for Publishing Sensor and State Data Directly to Ignition
Real-time, real-world data from sensors and devices is key to creating the connected enterprise. In this session, Benson Hougland from Opto 22 will demonstrate how to quickly and securely connect, configure, and publish sensor and state device data directly into MQTT infrastructure — without using a PC or PLC. You’ll see how data “auto-magically” appears in Ignition using MQTT Engine, significantly streamlining your application development and digital transformation projects — from automation to OEE and everything in between.
30 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
10 Commandments of Protecting Your Network and Assets
When it comes to cyber defense for industrial control networks, there seems to be an overwhelming sea of information. Join ICS Security for this session on cyber defense, breaking down the challenges plant owners and system integrators face and the protective measures they can take. This session will also take a look at SPARTA (SCADA Protection And Real Time Alerts) and how it’s helping to prevent most cyber attacks.
17 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Energy
Leveraging Container Deployments with Ignition on Docker
In the same way that virtualization changed the way we develop and deploy industrial software, container computing presses on as the next enabler for scalable, robust, and efficient deployments and developer workflows. Containers can help solve some of the challenges presented by today’s complex and distributed architectures. This session will demonstrate how you can leverage Ignition on Docker to model complex architectures quickly, facilitate multi-version Ignition environments, and increase density on your development systems. Join Kymera & EN Engineering as they show how you can use container concepts to achieve better simulation and load testing for your MQTT deployments. They’ll also share what they’ve learned in using Ignition on Docker and help you envision what you can create with this exciting technology!
44 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Energy
Ignition with Cloud Services
Cloud services like AWS and Azure used in conjunction with Ignition offer many advantages. In this session, find out how using Ignition in a cloud environment can improve your solutions at an administrative, uptime, and management level. This session will also detail the networking and security implications and solutions to ensure a robust and secure system, and will take you through examples for outage usability, highlighting Ignition Edge as a local failover.
28 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Data Center
Utilizing Ignition & MQTT for Auto-Discovery of Data Modeling and Time Series Data in AWS Cloud
In order to take advantage of the new technologies available through Digital Transformation, such as Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, companies must bridge the IT-OT gap, feeding the machine with secure and consumable data while also providing a superior OT solution. This session will describe how utilizing Ignition and MQTT in conjunction with AWS IoT SiteWise provides a simple and seamless integration of OT Data into a standard data model and pushes Tag data into a Time Series Database becoming instantly available for Big Data applications in AWS Cloud.
27 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Manufacturing
The Power of Ignition and IIoT Secure Digital Power Solutions
Bedrock Automation has brought secure industrial digital power solutions to the IIoT edge. This session demonstrates how to get complete power system diagnostics remotely via Ignition designed dashboards, and details why software configurable devices are important, how to use built-in redundancy to eliminate power-related downtime, and more. See how remote operations can be simple, scalable and secure with significant cost savings.
33 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Automotive
Secure Your Ignition the Easy Way – Setting up Ignition with a Reverse Proxy
In this session, learn how to leverage free and open source reverse proxy software to secure your Ignition install with auto-renewing SSL certificates.
32 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Construction Materials
Breaking the Myth of Industry 4.0 with Ignition
In this session, Automation Excellence gives viewers a simple approach to Industry 4.0, its principles, the components involved which include elements of both OT and IT, and the Ignition Platform.
31 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Aerospace
Use Docker & DevOps to Dominate Deployment
Deploying new features, bug fixes, and updates is necessary for every production SCADA/MES installation and without an established deployment cycle, modifications to any system pose significant risk. In this session, you’ll see Git source control, Docker containerization, and DevOps methodologies that you can use to effectively develop and deploy projects with Ignition. Apply standard Dev/Test/Stage/Prod practices from the software industry to support multiple developers, reduce unplanned downtime, and realize a more efficient process for developing and deploying Ignition projects.
34 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Automotive
SCADA Client Management System
As SCADA systems grow and take advantage of Ignition’s unlimited client licensing model, managing these numerous clients has become more and more challenging. Join Piedmont Automation as they discuss and detail their SCADA Client Manager that allows IT & Maintenance personnel to quickly deploy clients anywhere in the facility, from management offices to the KPI monitors mounted high in the air in production areas.
20 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Pharmaceuticals
Envisioning a Better Ventilator Monitoring Experience with Ignition
Shortly after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, a network of more than 180 of the brightest minds in medicine and engineering assembled to design and develop an open-source ventilator that can be built quickly, at a low cost, and using commonly available components. LifeMech, the organization leading this effort, developed an Ignition-based prototype for a remote user interface that can display data from multiple ventilators simultaneously, providing nurses and physicians with a faster and safer way of monitoring patient status. This session will bring together some of the contributors to this project, including end users, system integrators and strategic partners, as they discuss this important work and how Ignition made it all possible.
24 min video
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2020
International Session
| Agriculture
Improving Automation Systems with MQTT (Spanish)
Leveraging the fundamentals of MQTT as an application will bring your existing automation systems up-to-date and even future-proof them. Learn how to get your company and colleagues on board with using the MQTT protocol with persuasive strategies backed up by great information. You’ll learn the importance of embedded security, how to deploy cross-interactions between plant-floor enterprise applications, and more.
28 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
Cellular and VPN Connectivity Management for Remote Applications Using Moxa’s ThingsPro
Learn how to use Moxa’s built-in software utility to effortlessly manage the complex task of cellular and VPN connectivity for your remotely distributed applications.
32 min video
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2020
International Session
| Agriculture
Developing Well-Designed Projects in Ignition (Spanish)
Learn key user experience/user interface (UX/UI) concepts to improve the interface design of your industrial projects. From the most common design mistakes to avoid, to the newest design methodologies, the team from NV Tecnologías will walk conference-goers through key design principles for HMIs and other interfaces. If you are new to screen design or want a refresher for UX in 2020, this is the perfect session for you.
27 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
Virtualization at the Edge
Digital Transformation is accelerating as manufacturers double down on onshoring and near-sourcing while adding KPI’s focused on resilience and adaptability, strengthening the ROI of digital transformation projects. We’re now well into OT/IT convergence with IT technologies permeating OT, reducing costs and increasing the speed and scalability of deployment. This session will explore the leading technologies moving to the industrial edge of OT. Driving virtualization technologies to the edge of networks is a key enabling technology that will soon become one of the keys to success in digital transformation.
24 min video
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2020
Community Session
| Building Automation
ANSI/ISA HMI 101 - Intuitive Information and Guidance
HMI design plays a critical role in determining an operator’s ability to manage an industrial facility’s systems effectively, particularly when detecting and resolving an abnormal situation. Adopting design standards, such as those developed by groups such as ANSI and ISA, allows organizations to add valuable context to data in a way that’s consistent, clear and scalable. During this session, GrayMatter Chief Technology Officer John Benitz will discuss how water/wastewater utilities, manufacturers and other industrial organizations leverage high-performance HMI design to enhance change management practices, convert veteran operators’ unwritten rules into intuitive design elements, and reduce the learning curve for new employees.
12 min video
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2020
Panel
| Building Automation
ICC 2020 Live Dev Panel
While its core purpose has always been the same, Ignition is constantly evolving, allowing its users to do more with fewer roadblocks along the way. Join Inductive Automation’s Co-Directors of Software Engineering, Carl Gould and Colby Clegg, as they share what’s in store for Ignition for the next year and beyond in this popular session. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain key insights surrounding the future of Ignition and answer questions you may have about the software in an extended Q&A portion of the session.
58 min video
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2020
Keynote
| Building Automation
ICC 2020 Keynote
As we enter a new decade, let’s look together with fresh eyes and envision a prosperous new future where the arbitrary limitations of the past are gone and innovation is free and open for all. Join the leaders of Inductive Automation at our annual keynote address as they reflect on the past year in the Ignition community, envision what the future holds for the industry, and share exciting glimpses of where the Ignition platform is headed and what that means for Ignition users.
53 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Energy
Strategies for Optimizing Your Ignition System Performance
Ignition is an amazing platform for building just about anything, and to take full advantage of everything Ignition can do, you need to be smart about how you set it up. Hear the integration experts at Kymera Systems explain how they help optimize existing Ignition systems to run like new. In this session, you'll learn the key strategies and steps for optimizing your Ignition system to reach peak performance.
44 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
Learning Ignition Fundamentals (2019)
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Inductive Automation's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to get started with Ignition.
58 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Energy
From Zero to SCADA: Rapidly Building a SCADA System from the Pipeline to the Cloud
What if you had to upgrade a large-scale pipeline SCADA system in only three months? That was the challenge facing ARB Midstream when it acquired a new pipeline asset. ARB contracted Industrial Networking Solutions (INS) to migrate from its slow, high-cost, legacy SCADA software to a modern SCADA solution with cloud-based reporting, management, visibility, control, and redundancy features. In this session, get a detailed look at how ARB Midstream and INS leveraged the limitless power of Ignition, Ignition Edge, MQTT and AWS to deliver a standardized network infrastructure and a scalable, centrally manageable SCADA platform in just a few months.
58 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Construction Materials
From Enterprise Order to Factory Implementation in One Week
Large enterprise-wide rollouts can be daunting. There are implementation challenges that have to be overcome, along with internal stake-holders that need to be aligned. The implementation for a single plant can take months alone; so what do you do if you have dozens of plants, spread across a large geographical area? Saint-Gobain Abrasives faced this challenge when implementing Ignition, so they turned to the rapid-Ignition-implementation experts at Plantformance. In this session, you'll see how to employ IT best practices, state-of-the-art hardware, and Ignition to go from an enterprise order to a factory implementation in just one week. You'll learn from the first-hand experience of how Saint-Gobain is doing this now, and you'll get to see a live world-wide Ignition infrastructure maintenance operation demo.
62 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Automotive
Enterprise Digital Transformation Journey—One Year Later
Dana Inc., a global leader in transportation, and Roeslein & Associates Inc., an Ignition Premier Integrator, won a Firebrand Award for their amazing work in 2018 when they partnered together to embark on Dana's enterprise-wide digital transformation journey. In this insightful session, you'll hear from both Roeslein and Dana about the challenges and triumphs of the first year of their journey together. Discussions will include the successful decisions as well as decisions that they would change if they could do it all over again. You'll learn from their first-hand experiences about what technology and cultural changes are needed to ensure that your own enterprise digital transformation journey is successful.
52 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Agriculture
Certified for Success—Building a Better Integration Business
Over its 25 years, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) has helped system integrators build better businesses one company at a time. In this session, you'll learn about the help CSIA offers integration companies and you'll hear first-hand from CSIA-certified system integrator Grantek about their successful partnership with CSIA. Grantek is a leading CSIA Certified member who joined CSIA in 2008. Come in and learn of the specific benefits Grantek has derived from this relationship and get ideas to help grow the success of your integration business in this informative, open discussion.
57 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Building Automation
Building Better Systems Using Industrial Standards
Standards aren’t meant to eliminate thinking and stifle creativity. If used properly, standards create a common language and a systematic approach to solving problems using industry-wide best practices. They encourage communication and foster creativity in solving engineering problems. In this session, Dennis Brandl, an expert on ISA and IEC international standards, will discuss how to apply the concepts of standardization to improve organizational collaboration and design better systems. You’ll also see how ISA 95, ISA 88, ISA 99, and their international equivalents are being effectively applied to systems today, and what new standards and tools are available now to help organizations build better control systems.
59 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Chemicals
We're on the Edge of Glory: Building Intelligent Systems of the Future—Today
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an explosive, extremely toxic chemical found in most natural gas, so potent that it can kill a person with a single breath. Converting H2S into fertilizer-grade sulfur is a dangerous business, one which Streamline Innovations has perfected through superior chemistry, strong business practices, and a state-of-the-art control system that combines Ignition, Ignition Edge, Moxa devices, and MQTT. This semi-autonomous, intelligent system can be operated and managed easily and completely remotely. In this session, learn how Streamline created their control system of the future today using only off-the-shelf products, and get tips on how to do it yourself.
59 min video
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2019
Panel
| Building Automation
Security Panel: The State of Control Systems Today
The threats to your company’s security are always changing; how can you stay ahead of the curve? This panel, packed with security professionals from a variety of fields, will discuss the challenges faced by modern industrial professionals in securing all aspects of their control systems. Our expert panel will discuss the security of hardware and software, online and offline, as well as other pressing topics of discussion in the security industry today. Attend to get a diverse range of perspectives on locking down your company at every level.
65 min video
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2019
Panel
| Agriculture
Integrator Panel: The Biggest Trends Shaping the Industry
At this panel discussion, you'll connect with leaders of some of the Ignition community's most innovative integration companies to discuss real trends shaping the industry. With so many buzzwords like Big Data, the cloud, and IIoT circulating, how do you sort out which trends actually matter? How are automation professionals responding to these big ideas? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what's actually impacting the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.
62 min video
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2019
Panel
| Aerospace
Industry Panel: How Combining OT and IT Empowers Innovation
The convergence of operational and information technologies has been at the forefront of industry conversations for several years now, but how does this idea work in the real world? Join thought leaders from a variety of automation verticals as they discuss their experiences and answer your questions about the real-world integration of OT and IT in industrial processes.
60 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Building Automation
Ignition in Smart Cities and Smart Factories Applications with ORing and AT&T
In this fascinating session, get a look inside the AT&T IIoT service, learn about ORing edge-to-cloud Ignition solutions for smart cities and smart factories, and check out successful real-world applications being used in various industries. See IIoT solutions in action!
63 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Building Automation
Cybersecurity's Impact on You, Your Business, and Your Clients
By 2020, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices ranging from our smartphones to wearable technology to industrial machinery. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), our devices and platforms provide increased connectivity without boundaries. However, hand-in-hand with these new interconnected devices are a whole host of dangerous cybersecurity risks. Listen to the first Secretary of Homeland Security and alliantgroup Chairman of Cybersecurity and Technology, Tom Ridge, discuss what exciting developments technology will bring us over the next few years as well as the associated threats that come with it.
57 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Achieving Business Value with Enterprise Deployments
Two years ago, Inductive Automation introduced the Enterprise Integrator program in response to the growing demand from large, complex global organizations to deploy the Ignition platform across multiple sites for multiple purposes. Inductive defines Enterprise Integrators as “very large integrators (250+ engineers) with a global presence and a reputation for executing large corporate initiatives across multiple sites simultaneously. Such integration firms tend to have long-term relationships with their clients.” Brock Solutions, the first integrator to achieve this status, will share their experiences working with enterprise clients leveraging the Ignition platform to achieve measurable business value – beyond HMI and SCADA.
59 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
The Endless Extensibility of the Ignition Platform
Inductive Automation often refers to Ignition as a “platform,” but what does that mean for customers, users, and software developers? Join expert Ignition project developers as they discuss how to take advantage of Ignition’s virtually limitless extensibility to build systems customized to a company’s exact needs. Find out how engineers are using tools like the Software Developer Kit (SDK) to build incredible internal applications and modules that solve specific problems for their teams and companies. See and hear the unlimited potential of the Ignition platform and get inspired to start extending your own Ignition system at this exciting session!
63 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
Taking Ignition to the Next Level with Machine Learning
Inductive Automation's machine learning experts will lead conference attendees through practical applications for machine learning, along with typical ML setups that Ignition users could implement on their own systems. Further, they will be illustrating how to use more sophisticated implementations of ML to advance your system.
61 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Building Automation
Simplifying Single-Machine to Full-Enterprise MES Implementations
In this session, you'll learn about practical solutions to the common pain points associated with implementing new MES systems. You'll get a look at the new and exciting MES products and features that Sepasoft will be introducing to the Ignition community. Attendees will also get to see a live demonstration of ERP integrations, enterprise functionality, and other tools that will simplify their own MES implementation. Don't miss your chance to get an early preview of Sepasoft's new and exciting MES products.
77 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
Limitless Scalability: Building Elastic Architectures
Architecting systems that are built to grow can be a challenge, and in today’s quickly-changing world it’s more important than ever for industrial organizations to be able to effortlessly scale to fit their customer’s needs. Fortunately, Ignition takes the growing pains out of scaling your architecture. Join an Ignition architecture expert from Inductive Automation for an informative discussion about how to use powerful features like distributed services and cloud hosting to create architectures that offer virtually limitless ways to easily scale your Ignition system.
62 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Building Automation
Ignition Firebrand Award Presentation (2019)
The Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to industrial organizations and system integrators whose innovative work — showcased in the Discover Gallery — demonstrates the true potential of the Ignition platform. In this brief session, a representative from each Firebrand-winning company will accept the award from Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson.
19 min video
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2019
Build-a-Thon
| Building Automation
Ignition Build-a-Thon: Team Travis vs. Team Kevin
A new tradition was born last year with the inaugural Ignition Build-a-Thon. This year our main event is a rematch between Inductive Automation’s Co-Directors of Sales Engineering, Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky, as they duke it out in an action-packed development showdown for Ignition Build-a-Thon glory! See live development in action as these two competitors take center stage with their teams. With endlessly entertaining commentary by host Kent Melville and a panel of Ignition development pros, this is a can't-miss event for all conference-goers.
92 min video
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2019
Community Session
| Data Center
Digital Transformation Made Easy with Ignition & MQTT
Progressive leaders are demanding change in order to achieve Digital Transformation. This is driving the creation of new solutions which utilize Big Data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Digital Transformation increases performance and efficiency, and reduces unplanned maintenance and downtime, thus leading to increased revenue and market share and, ultimately, increased profits. In order to take advantage of these new technologies, companies must bridge the OT-IT gap and feed IT infrastructures with data that is secure, easily consumable, and cost-effective. This session will describe how utilizing MQTT and the Ignition platform implements an open-standard architecture solution to deliver a cost-effective Digital Transformation and bridge the OT-IT gap.
60 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
Designing Effective Mobile-Responsive Industrial Applications
Designing an effective user experience for mobile applications requires a very different mindset than designing applications for desktops or panel devices. In this session, we’ll breakdown three real-life customer projects and transform them into effective and intuitive mobile-first applications. You’ll come out of this session with new information on design, and tips and tricks to use in your next project.
59 min video
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2019
IA Session
| Building Automation
Adding Ignition Perspective to Your Vision Projects
Whether you are using the Ignition Perspective Module to add a new HTML5 mobile dashboard to extend your existing project or you’re moving your entire Vision Module project over to Perspective, there are many ways to use these two modules together to enhance your visualization system. In this step-by-step session, Ignition experts will offer practical tips for adding Perspective to your existing Vision projects along with strategies for migrating existing non-mobile-responsive systems over to a fully web-friendly, mobile-responsive format. Perspective brings new and exciting capabilities to Ignition projects and with this session, you’ll get the information you need to help you use Perspective to future-proof your existing Vision projects.
66 min video
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2019
Panel
| Building Automation
Developer Panel: What's Next for Ignition? (2019)
In this popular session, attendees get the chance to hear directly from Inductive Automation’s Co-Directors of Software Engineering, Carl Gould and Colby Clegg, about the future of Ignition. This year, Carl and Colby will discuss their plans for the upcoming Ignition 8.1 version. Don't miss your chance to hear firsthand what's in store for Ignition in the coming year of development.
59 min video
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2019
Keynote
| Building Automation
ICC 2019 Keynote
The industrial automation space has seen amazing growth and change in the past few years, opening up endless possibilities for manufacturing professionals and the software they use. Empowered with unlimited licensing, driven by a passion for problem-solving, and energized by collaboration with colleagues from around the globe, the Ignition Community has redefined conventional boundaries to create virtually limitless opportunities for growth and innovation in the industrial automation field and beyond. Join Inductive Automation’s leadership team as they discuss the future of the company, Ignition, and the industry in this exciting annual keynote address. Be sure to come early – this session is always a full house!
75 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Data Center
Connecting at the Edge: Real Hardware Solutions for the Real IIoT
For years, the Industrial Internet of Things was more of an idea than a reality; now that's all changing because there are many solutions you can start using today to quickly and easily connect to all the "things" at the edge of the network. In this session, you'll get to see the many IIoT-ready products you can start using with Ignition to connect all kinds of devices like PLCs, panels, edge gateways, and more. You'll also learn some great tips and strategies for how to put them into action in brownfield situations so you can start leveraging legacy infrastructure to build a modern IIoT architecture.
61 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
Design Principles for Creating Mobile-Responsive HMIs
Designing an effective HMI screen for a desktop or panel is much different than designing for a mobile device. Depending on the screen size and how the user interacts with it, the way the operator uses and views that screen can change drastically. In this highly informative session, you’ll learn solid, time-tested web-design principles for creating mobile-responsive HMI screens that work equally well on a mobile device or a desktop.
61 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
How to Use Ignition's Security Features
Security is one of the most pressing issues industrial organizations face on a daily basis, and that's why Ignition was designed with an abundance of security features. Some of Ignition’s security features have been around for a long time, and there are also many new ones coming out with Ignition 8. In this session, you'll learn more about how to use Ignition’s security features to make your system as secure as possible.
57 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
Practical Uses of Machine Learning and Ignition
Machine learning is a rapidly growing branch of artificial intelligence with huge potential to advance the way industrial organizations analyze data. In this session, you’ll get a primer on the basics of machine learning, a look at the technology’s potential impact on the industrial space, and some practical examples of how machine learning and Ignition can be used together.
60 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Aerospace
Firebrand Awards Panel (2018)
At the end of each conference, the Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to the most outstanding real-world Ignition projects featured in our yearly Discovery Gallery project showcase. Join us to celebrate the creative spirit of the Ignition community as we honor this year’s Firebrand Award winners and hear their stories of struggle, innovation, and triumph in a fun and informative panel discussion led by Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer, Don Pearson.
55 min video
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2018
Panel
| Food and Beverage
Industry Panel: Leading Through Innovation
This panel discussion brings together thought leaders in a number of different industries from around the Ignition community. In this session, our panel will discuss how they're utilizing Ignition within their enterprises to help meet their customers' needs and keep up with company growth in innovative ways.
62 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Paint
Using SQL Databases to Grow Your Enterprise System
Using Ignition with SQL databases creates a powerful combination for handling enterprise data. In this session, you'll hear from the team at Sherwin-Williams about how they seamlessly use both technologies to meet the company’s growing data demands. Get great first-hand tips for using SQL in large enterprises, including how to annotate and model SQL data, using databases to drive user-customized context in Vision clients, handling database downtime smoothly without impacting SCADA and operations, and more.
59 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Data Center
20-Year Anniversary of the Genesis of MQTT
It’s been 20 years since Arlen Nipper and Andy Stanford-Clark sat down in the IBM labs at Hursley, England, and started to devise a solution to a recurring problem in the oil & gas industry: how to send data over a bandwidth-constrained communication channel and share the data with an ever-increasing number of data consumers within the enterprise. They invented MQTT, but little did they know it would become the de facto standard for IoT 20 years later. This presentation will step you through the challenge they were trying to solve and the process they went through in the creation of the MQTT specification as we know it today.
58 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Energy
Practical Tips for Rolling Out an Enterprise System
An enterprise rollout of a new system can be a daunting task. There are architecture and design considerations, technical and project management challenges, as well as financial and organizational demands that must be met. In this session, you'll get practical tips on how to tackle these kinds of challenges, all while staying focused on the most important part of any system rollout: delivering valuable, actionable data to your end user.
49 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Aerospace
Top 6 Tips for Delivering a Successful MES Project
A successful MES project has the potential to deliver huge efficiency improvements that can boost production and save money. In this session, you'll hear specific strategies you can put into action right now to improve your MES implementations. Make your next MES project a success with great tips about how to plan your project, map your process, fully leveraging actionable information, and designing a great UX for OEE projects.
55 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Electronics
Solving Typical Enterprise MES Architectures with Sepasoft
In this session, Sepasoft will update the community on new products and features for MES. The focus will be on MES Enterprise 2.0 solving issues in enterprise MES use cases. See a live demonstration of MES Enterprise 2.0 functionality and how it can simplify your enterprise implementation!
70 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Energy
Midstream Middleware - An Evolutionary Journey with MQTT
In this engaging session from the COO of Streamline Control Solutions, Peter Boyle, you'll gain insight into the innovative process Plains Midstream Canada used to move their SCADA serial communications infrastructure to middleware using MQTT. You'll learn more about the successes and challenges of the journey, including the initial objectives of the decision, the process to get there, the early-stage benefits of the conversion, and more.
50 min video
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2018
Panel
| Building Automation
Technology Panel: Open Technology's Impact on Industrial Automation
Industrial automation is changing faster than ever, and the adoption of open technologies is a big reason why. In this panel discussion, you'll hear from many of the innovators and thought leaders behind some of the open technologies that are impacting industry the most, such as MQTT, OPC UA, the Ignition platform, and more. In this fascinating session, our panel will also discuss the benefits and challenges associated with using open technologies as well as the potential role of these technologies in the continuing evolution of the industrial automation industry.
62 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Automotive
Configuring Devices in Ignition Using UDTs and the EAM
Configuring devices with user-defined type (UDT) tags on servers at multiple production sites can be challenging; in this session you'll learn how to do it in Ignition. The Ignition Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) is a powerful management tool that gives you the ability to manage not only servers and project objects but devices across the enterprise. Join Lynn Martineau of Autoliv to see how he's using centralized tools to configure devices, reducing the need to access multiple Ignition Gateways and Designers and simplifying training and support.
55 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Software
Open Source, Open Collaboration
From transportation to the industrial sector, software is eating the world, and open-source software is one of biggest drivers behind this transformation. Join Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, to learn about their mission to create a mature, scalable, and commercially focused environment for collaboration and innovation. In this session, you'll learn about the many advantages of using open-source software, its impact on the emergence of IoT, and the things companies need to do to embrace and benefit from the digital transformation.
56 min video
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2018
Panel
| Aerospace
Integrator Panel: How to Lead With Ignition
At this panel discussion, you’ll hear some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators talk about how they are finding success for their companies and customers by leading with Ignition. In this session, our expert panel of integrators will discuss tips for how to win more projects with Ignition, keep up with technology trends, and open new opportunities for future development.
61 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
Learning Ignition Fundamentals (2018)
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Ignition's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to know to get started with Ignition.
62 min video
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2018
Community Session
| Manufacturing
Ignition & Water/Wastewater: Doing Less With More
Water/wastewater lives the adage, “Do more with less.” Except Ignition is more: more than SCADA, more than visualization, more than a database front-end. And because it gives users more, they spend less time developing, less time maintaining, and less time securing their system. In this session, you'll hear the story of how a water district in the eastern US is using Ignition as their engine of innovation to drive continual advancements. Learn how they got started, the challenges they overcame, and where Ignition is helping them go, culminating in a sneak peek of the city’s newest cybersecurity project.
54 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
Building Open & Scalable Multi-Site Enterprise Architectures
With the powerful features, products and protocols available in Ignition — like the Gateway Network, Ignition Edge, and MQTT — building open and scalable enterprise architectures is easier and more beneficial than ever before. Get best practices from an Ignition expert on how to build multi-site enterprise architectures that efficiently distribute the workload across multiple Ignition gateways.
59 min video
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2018
IA Session
| Building Automation
Introducing the Ignition Perspective Module
Get a preview of an upcoming Ignition module and get a first-hand look at how to use it to create amazing new Ignition projects. In this session, the Ignition development team will give you a guided tour of the module’s powerful new features in action.
61 min video
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2018
Build-a-Thon
| Building Automation
Live Ignition Build-a-Thon
Co-Directors of Sales Engineering Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky both have years of experience building Ignition projects for companies in just about every industry. At this one-of-a-kind session, you'll get a front-row seat to watch Travis and Kevin build an Ignition project from start to finish in under an hour. During the session, Travis and Kevin will answer questions and share tips about the many ways to rapidly build projects in Ignition.
63 min video
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2018
Panel
| Building Automation
Developer Panel: The Future of Ignition’s Development (2018)
Every year, this proves to be one of the most popular sessions of the conference as the co-directors of Ignition’s development discuss and answer questions about their development plans. Don’t miss your chance to hear what’s next for Ignition from the leaders of the Ignition development team.
56 min video
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2018
Keynote
| Building Automation
ICC 2018 Keynote
The world of industrial automation is changing for the better and the Ignition community of industrial professionals are leading the way. In this special extended keynote, you'll hear from Inductive Automation's leadership about the exciting new developments at the company, in the Ignition community, and for the Ignition platform as you get a preview of the game-changing new features of Ignition 8. This is a must-see event!
78 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Automotive
Firebrand Awards ICC 2017
At the conclusion of the conference, Ignition Firebrand Awards will be given for this year's most outstanding Discover Gallery projects. The award recipients will gather for a lively and inspiring panel discussion about how their projects came about, what it took to achieve success, their future plans for Ignition, and more. Their stories could help you build your next great Ignition project!
55 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Building Automation
The IIoT Revolution: Transforming the Modern Enterprise Architecture
As the demand increases for faster industrial data analysis at an enterprise level, the need for a more simple, standardized, and connected system architecture becomes greater than ever. Through the decoupling of devices and applications, a new type of IIoT architecture holds the promise of increased data throughput, greater agility, and improved enterprise-wide communication. In this session, learn more about some of the factors driving this new trend and how IIoT could reshape the way industrial organizations think about and implement their system architectures for years to come.
63 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Making Your HMIs More User-Friendly
An effective HMI is more than just data on a screen: it should be a well-thought-out visual tool that helps the operator recognize and resolve problems quickly. This session will present HMI design and UX principles as well as practical tips for implementation.
61 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Steps for Protecting Your Ignition System
Every day, the issue of protecting your SCADA systems against security threats becomes more pressing. There are specific actions you can take – and other actions you should definitely avoid – to improve the security of your Ignition system. In this highly informative session, an Ignition expert will teach the best practices for strengthening Ignition against security threats.
66 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Transforming Food Processing: Bridging IT and OT with Ignition
Hear how a leading food processor is using Ignition to bridge the gap between IT and OT, and the transformative effect this is having on their processes. Hugh Roddy of Chobani will talk about the process of moving from their old infrastructure to an Ignition system that emphasizes agility and mobility, and the process and business upsides of that transformation.
61 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Containers and Packaging
Using Ignition to Innovate New Solutions for Food Processing
A winner of Food Engineering's Plant of the Year Award, and an innovator in their industry, SugarCreek Packing Company embraces cutting-edge disruptive technologies across their operations, from the processing of their food products to the management of their IIoT infrastructure. At this intriguing session, you'll hear from SugarCreek’s Director of Operational Technology Dan Stauft and Director of Information Technology Todd Pugh about how they leverage Ignition to empower their processes, get an advantage over their competition, and achieve a solid return on investment.
50 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Learning Ignition Fundamentals (2017)
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Ignition's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to know to get started with Ignition.
70 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Water/Wastewater
Ignition and Water/Wastewater: A Decade of Transformation
For Information Systems Supervisor Henry Palechek, this August marks the tenth year of using Inductive Automation software to meet and even exceed the business needs of his water district. A lot has changed in 10 years, and in this session Henry will talk about the ways the district’s Ignition system has evolved to stabilize and simplify their processes and make his job easier.
57 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Building Automation
Transforming the Modern Oil Field: Moving to a Distributed Gateway Architecture
Pioneer Natural Resources is a large, Texas-based independent exploration and production company that delivers industry-leading production and reserve growth through onshore, unconventional oil and gas resource development in the United States. SCADA Operations and Development Manager Charles Lame will present an interesting case study of how Pioneer is using Ignition to move from a single-server architecture to a scaled-out enterprise architecture with distributed services. Their large-scale implementation features more than 1,700,000 tags and 29,000-plus device connections, logging 52 million records per day and polling 160,000,000 tags overall.
59 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
The Enterprise Transformation Journey: How Reynolds American Created a World-Class Operation
Projects are hard – transformation takes courage! Few industries face the challenges that the tobacco industry faces. The success Reynolds American achieved over the past 10 years is truly a remarkable story. Join Reynolds American and their integrator Brock Solutions as they tell the story of leading the transformation of the industry and their organization — leveraging leading-edge technology, driving measurable business value, and overcoming barriers that few thought possible to conquer. And the journey is far from over as Ignition is blazing new trails to creating a digitally connected enterprise.
63 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Beyond Compliance: Improving Food Safety and Traceability with Ignition and the Sepasoft MES Modules
In this session you’ll learn how the Food Safety Modernization Act has changed the way food producers and suppliers do business. You’ll also see several examples of how and where using Ignition and integrated MES technologies can make a big impact. Learn how modern MES software from Sepasoft and Inductive Automation can be used to enhance food safety plans and processes by ensuring truth in labeling, product quality, and traceability — automatically on the plant floor.
60 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Oil and Gas
BlueTech: MQTT and Ignition Use Cases
MQTT and Ignition have made it possible for Magnetrol to implement Sparkplug and gain 24/7 access to the HART data from Magnetrol level transmitters. This information has been instrumental at deciphering and solving customer issues to make their smart transmitters work better and benefit the end users.
50 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Data Center
Big Access: Unleashing the Real Value of Your IIoT Data
In the transition from accessing purely operational information to accessing IIoT information, Ignition IIoT becomes the perfect platform for Big Access. The next disruption in the IIoT market sector will be providing IIoT information to Big Data platforms where customers can discover greater knowledge about their process: trends, correlations, equipment optimization, and predictive analytics. Integrators and end users can use this knowledge to improve processes and performance, and realize greater cost savings. In this session, Arlen will present some new features built into the IIoT MQTT tooling, and some new Ignition modules providing direct connectivity to Big Data platforms. Without Big Access, you can’t implement Big Data!
58 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Introduction to Machine Learning
There is a growing amount of interest in machine learning, a discipline within artificial intelligence in which machines analyze data to identify patterns and develop models. In this intriguing session, experts from Inductive Automation will share the basic concepts and processes of machine learning, and discuss its potential implications for industrial automation.
60 min video
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2017
Panel
| Aerospace
Integrator Panel: Positioning Your Integration Business for Success
At this panel discussion, some of the leading system integrators in the Ignition community will talk about many aspects of success for integrators today, including the Integrator Program, strategies for business growth, technology trends, and how Ignition helps transform challenges into opportunities.
64 min video
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2017
Panel
| Food and Beverage
Industry Panel: Using Ignition to Adapt and Stay Competitive
This panel discussion brings together Ignition users from leading companies in a number of different industries. They'll talk about how they're utilizing Ignition within their enterprises to help meet their customers’ changing demands, manage growth, and fuel innovation to strengthen their competitive advantages.
61 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
IIoT: Getting Started with MQTT
The lightweight, open, and efficient MQTT messaging protocol has become a favorite among developers for IIoT applications. MQTT is different from other protocols you may have worked with before, so be sure to attend this session. Learn about the three components of an MQTT architecture: the broker, the publisher, and the subscriber. We'll also cover the other MQTT fundamentals you'll need to get started.
68 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Blending OT and IT: Meeting Plant-Floor and Enterprise Challenges with Ignition
For Tyson Foods, the challenges of running a global food processing company are both big and small: How do you keep production on-target and improve efficiencies on an individual line or multiple lines across a facility? How do you manage resources and maintain servers across the enterprise? Tyson Foods is solving these challenges, along with many others, by using Ignition. In this session, you’ll hear how Tyson uses Ignition all the way from the plant-floor level, where it helps improve their processes, to the enterprise level, where they use it along with the Enterprise Administration Module to manage their system centrally.
57 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Building Scalable Ignition Enterprise Architectures
With the introduction of the Gateway Network feature in Ignition v7.9 and the Ignition Edge products this year, it's now possible to build new types of architectures that are much more scalable than before. In this session, we'll discuss highly scalable architectures that allow you to better distribute large workloads across multiple Ignition Gateways in the enterprise, and to extend Ignition from the enterprise level all the way to the edge of your network.
64 min video
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2017
IA Session
| Building Automation
Diagnosing, Troubleshooting, and Improving Ignition Gateway Performance
In this educational session, taught by Ignition support experts, you'll learn how to self diagnose and troubleshoot potential problems in your Ignition gateway. You'll also learn valuable tips for how to improve Ignition gateway performance so you can get the most out of your Ignition system.
61 min video
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2017
Community Session
| Electronics
Building Enterprise MES Solutions with the Sepasoft 2.0 Modules
In this session, learn how Ignition and the new Sepasoft MES 2.0 modules can be used to fulfill the MES needs of an entire enterprise. We'll show you how the newest OEE 2.0 and MES Enterprise 2.0 modules take advantage of the scale-out architecture and Gateway Area Network (GAN) features in Ignition v7.9, to provide a powerful and flexible way of distributing MES functionality across your enterprise.
62 min video
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2017
Keynote
| Building Automation
Keynote ICC 2017
As the effects of rapid technological change continue to be felt by companies and organizations everywhere, it's essential to understand the real meaning behind the latest industry trends and to see the guiding philosophy behind the company's recent product updates. In this opening keynote session, Inductive Automation's top thought leaders will discuss their vision for keeping the Ignition platform and the Ignition community at the forefront of the industrial data revolution.
69 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Aerospace
ICC 2016 Firebrand Awards
The Ignition community is made up of some of the most forward-thinking industrial professionals around. In this closing session of the conference, we will celebrate their spirit of innovation by honoring the best projects from the Discover Gallery with Ignition Firebrand Awards. At this rousing and informative panel discussion, hear from the people behind these award-winning projects as they discuss how they did it and what they are doing next with Ignition.
61 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Agriculture
Achieving Regulatory Compliance with Ignition
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
61 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Tapping the Power of Your Historical Data
Put your historian to work by fully leveraging your historical data to put things like calculations, KPIs, and trending into your projects. Learn the best practices for maximizing the value of your historical data with new ideas and approaches you can try in Ignition.
52 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Building Automation
Start Building Practical Field-to-Enterprise IIoT Connectivity with OPC-UA
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
60 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Data Center
Building Future-Proof Utility Systems
Watch this ICC Community session from ICC 2016.
36 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Unlocking the Development Power of Ignition with Python Scripts
In this advanced and highly engaging session, you'll discover new possibilities about how to use Python scripts to do things in Ignition you can't do any other way. Learn best practices, advanced tips, and possible pitfalls of using Python scripting with your Ignition projects.
67 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Building Automation
Megatrends That Impact Industrial Automation
Watch this ICC Community session from ICC 2013.
52 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Manufacturing
Fundamentals of Intrinsic Cyber Defense in ICS
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
62 min video
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2016
Panel
| Agriculture
Integrator Panel: New Technologies & Trends
Join a panel of the leading integrators of Ignition as they discuss the newest technologies and trends that are shaping the industry. Learn from their first-hand experience and get your questions answered about how to leverage Ignition to meet the technology and development demands of the ever-changing industrial sector.
68 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Scaling Your Ignition System with Ease
Company growth is great, but it can be difficult to keep up with. Learn how to leverage Ignition's server-centric architecture and distributed tags to gracefully scale from a smaller centralized system to a larger multi-server one, without sacrificing system stability.
61 min video
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2016
Panel
| Building Automation
Developer Panel: What's Next for Ignition?
Want the inside scoop on what the Ignition development team is working on next? Hear first-hand from Inductive Automation's co-directors of software development as they outline what's in store for Ignition's future. The team will be answering audience questions and listening to feedback so don't miss your chance to get a glimpse at Ignition's future.
58 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
First Steps Towards a Predictive Analytics System in Ignition
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
54 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Manufacturing
CSIA Best Practices Accelerate System Integrator Company Growth
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2013.
56 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Data Center
Accelerate IIoT Solution Deployment Using Ignition & MQTT
Watch this ICC Community session from ICC 2016.
59 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Electronics
What's New for the Sepasoft MES Modules
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
61 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Construction Materials
How To Get Buy-In For Ignition From Large Organizations
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
56 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
User Experience Design Tips for Industrial Applications
In this session you'll pick up valuable user experience design tips for creating industrial application that perfectly fit user’s needs by putting them at the center of the design process. Learn how to employ a user-centered iterative design process that involves research, design variations, and validation from your user base to perfectly hit the mark.
51 min video
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2016
Community Session
| Building Automation
MySQL HA & Ignition: Options for Developing Ignition When Uptime Matters
Watch this ICC Community Session session from ICC 2016.
56 min video
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2016
Panel
| Containers and Packaging
Industry Panel: Using Ignition to Accelerate Growth
In this panel discussion, you'll hear from end users of Ignition in a variety of industries. Each brings their own unique perspective about how Ignition is helping them meet the demands inside their organization to facilitate innovation, productivity, and growth.
61 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Ignition v7.9: Getting the Most of the New Features
Ignition v.9 will be released this year and this session is the perfect opportunity to learn the latest Ignition tricks. Get a good look at the new features — including the powerful new troubleshooting tools — along with expert tips about how to get the most out of the newest version of Ignition.
62 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Learning Ignition Fundamentals (2016)
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Ignition's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to know to get started with Ignition.
48 min video
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2016
IA Session
| Building Automation
Ignition Interoperability: Merging Operational & Information Technologies
Ignition sits directly at the center of operational and information technologies and as a result it's ideally suited to serve as the technology hub of the modern industrial enterprise. In this highly informative session, you'll learn the benefits and techniques associated with connecting Ignition to line-of-business applications such as ERP and CRM.
58 min video
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2016
Keynote
| Building Automation
Keynote: Accelerating the Evolution of Industrial Automation
With new technologies advancing and more data and devices being connected together than ever before, the growth of industrial automation is accelerating at a dizzying pace. As operational and information technologies continue to converge, the Ignition platform is positioned at the epicenter of this new industrial revolution. Hear about how Ignition is accelerating the evolution of industrial automation and where it's going next at this keynote address.
73 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Getting Started with Ignition SCADA
Perfect for Ignition newcomers or those just needing a refresh, this session covers the basic knowledge and features necessary to start developing projects in Ignition.
58 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Exploring the New Features & Modules of Ignition v7.8
Join a member of the Ignition development team as they explore and demonstrate some of the many new features and modules of the newest version of Ignition SCADA software.
57 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Energy
Ignition Testing Strategies
You’ve finished that great Ignition application; now how do you test it? This session demonstrates some simple testing tools and then addresses issues involved in creating a comprehensive test framework. Topics include: use of PyUnit, constructing a simple data pump, creating an isolated test environment, the human interface and more. A final test demonstration targets sequential function charts.
48 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Oil and Gas
Refining and Chemicals Control System of the Future
In 2003, the ARC Advisory Group estimated that $65 billion worth of industrial control systems was nearing the end of its expected life. Motivated by this need, ExxonMobil has identified a set of functional characteristics of a next-generation industrial control system that improves manufacturing facility profitability and helps maintain competitiveness well into the 21st century.
42 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Tips for Rapidly Building Dynamic HMI Screens
Learn how to create dynamic HMI screens that can change automatically based on data, and how to create them quickly using the rapid development tools inside Ignition.
59 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Applying Graphic Design Principles to Interface Design
Learn some basic graphic design principles that can be applied broadly across interface design projects, such as HMI screens and web pages, to help improve user experience.
41 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Aerospace
Firebrand Awards Ceremony (2015)
The conference concludes with the presentation of the 2015 Ignition Firebrand Awards, which honor the teams behind the most successful and innovative projects showcased in the Discovery Gallery.
28 min video
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2015
Panel
| Aerospace
Closing Panel (2015)
The Ignition community around the world grows one success at a time. Hear industrial professionals talk about how they’ve used Ignition to make a positive impact on their organizations.
61 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Exploring Ignition Architectures & Enterprise Administration Module
Ignition can be set up to accommodate a wide range of system architectures; learn about some of the most effective ones and learn how the new Enterprise Administration Module can be used to connect multiple systems together.
45 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Exploring the New Features of Ignition MES Modules
Explore the new and powerful features of the latest Ignition MES modules through demonstrations conducted by a member of the team that makes Ignition MES software.
63 min video
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2015
Keynote
| Building Automation
Keynote (2015)
Hear about the future direction of Ignition SCADA and MES software from Inductive Automation's President & CEO Steve Hechtman, as well as from the company’s executive and development teams.
99 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Best Practices for Building Advanced Reports
Join an Ignition expert to learn the best practices for building comprehensive, quality reports, and get tips for creating advanced reports in Ignition.
58 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Bullseye: Real-Time Information Helps Manufacturing Stay On-Target
30 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
The Power of Track & Trace with WIP
Learn advanced tips for tapping the full potential of Ignition’s Track & Trace Module by leveraging its Work-In-Process (WIP) data and functionality.
61 min video
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2015
Panel
| Food and Beverage
End User Panel: Using SCADA to Meet the Demands of a Growing Enterprise
In this open panel discussion, you'll hear from Ignition users from various industries about the demands they face in keeping up the growth of their companies and how Ignition helps them scale.
64 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Harnessing the Power of the SQL Bridge Module
Combining OPC data and the power of SQL databases opens a world of possibilities in Ignition that transcend traditional SCADA. This session will detail the advanced features and real-world applications that make the SQL Bridge one of Ignition’s most powerful modules.
63 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Construction Materials
Rapid Deployment Techniques for Multi-Site Installations
In this session you’ll learn rapid deployment techniques to get your applications to the people who need them, even across multi-site Ignition installations. Learn how to use externally hosted parametrization to get an application uploaded, configured, and running in about 10 seconds. Also, learn to get a new application installed to 10-plus servers in about a minute.
38 min video
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2015
IA Session
| Building Automation
Learning the Fundamentals of Ignition MES
For those looking to get started in MES, this session will teach the fundamental features and principles of MES to help make the most of this powerful technology.
55 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Automotive
Developing with the Ignition Module SDK
The learning curve for the Module SDK is steep, even for experienced programmers who are otherwise new to Java. Flatten the curve with a discussion of serialization, Client-to-Gateway RPC, component subclassing, the Java/Jython interface, trial enforcement, and more.
55 min video
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2015
Panel
| Building Automation
Development Panel: Future Directions for Ignition
Get an inside perspective from the Ignition development team about the growth of Ignition SCADA and MES. The team will address future development and answer audience questions about the Ignition.
64 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Aerospace
Integrator Sales Tips: Marketing Ignition
Ignition is different than any other SCADA software on the market; in this session, you'll get tips on how to highlight the unique features of Ignition to make it more effective.
57 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Aerospace
Sales and Development Approach to MES & OEE
MES projects involve challenges quite different than standard SCADA systems. This is especially true with installations involving OEE. Understanding and adapting to these factors can help secure work, satisfy clients, and mitigate risks. Jason Coope and David Reed of Trimax Systems will share their experiences and best management practices for delivering MES solutions from first contact to final rollout.
64 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Water/Wastewater
Building Your SCADA System to the Next Level
Ignition is a powerful SCADA solution. After the initial deployment, the software can then be used to improve processes and increase efficiencies, thereby saving money and improving the end user’s experience. This presentation will look at the work currently in process building on an existing system and the lessons learned.
57 min video
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2015
Community Session
| Data Center
Leveraging IIoT Technology: Building for Tomorrow with Ignition & MQTT
MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) was invented in 2001 as a TCP/IP message transport designed specifically for event-based real-time SCADA. MQTT remained relatively obscure until the recent emergence of M2M/IIoT technologies in the development community at large. Now MQTT is one of the leading message transports in IIoT. This session introduces a high-level explanation of MQTT, why it was invented for SCADA, and how it can be used natively in Ignition, right now.
56 min video
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2015
Panel
| Aerospace
Integrator Panel: Meeting Today's Biggest Challenges
63 min video
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2014
Panel
| Building Automation
Development Panel Discussion (2014)
Watch the 2014 Developer Panel Discussion with Ignition's Developers.
58 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Proven Migration Strategies
Watch this Inductive Automation session from ICC 2014.
61 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Maximizing the Benefits of Track & Trace and WIP
Watch this Inductive Automation session from ICC 2014.
64 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Tapping the Full Power of SQL Databases
Ignition leads the way in bringing SQL databases to the world of SCADA. Discover many possibilities of using Ignition with relational databases in this session.
49 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Improving Connectivity with ERP & Web Services
Watch this Inductive Automation session from ICC 2014.
56 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Automotive
MES Module Made Cloud-Friendly
Harrison – an expert in MES integration – explains how Roeslein & Associates’ new NowFlection mobile app make Ignition's MES information available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn how to use OEE tags to push MES data from the plant floor to the cloud, and how to utilize the NowFlection app to pull data back down.
32 min video
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2014
Keynote
| Building Automation
Opening Keynote (2014)
Find out how the new technology, licensing, business and ethical models of modern-day SCADA will usher in a new era of change and innovation for manufacturers.
93 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Paint
Design, Manage, and Deploy Enterprise Class Dashboards in Ignition
Watch this ICC Community session from ICC 2014.
44 min video
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2014
Panel
| Aerospace
Closing Panel (2014)
See the closing panel from the Ignition Community Conference 2014.
60 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Aerospace
Project Management Tips for Successful Ignition MES Implementations
In this session, Coope - a certified Project Management Professional - will discuss his experiences and recommendations covering project management, appropriate software development models and numerous tips for implementing successful Ignition-based MES solutions. Trimax Systems is a Certified Premier Systems Integrator with Inductive Automation and was the first company to become Ignition MES Certified.
44 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Automotive
Sales Tips: Ignition in 10 Minutes
How to make a compelling 10 minute pitch for Ignition.
46 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Building Automation
Firebrand Awards (2014)
See and celebrate with the Firebrand award winners from ICC 2014.
26 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Chemicals
How to Write a Module
The Ignition module API has well over 1,000 classes. Where should you start? This session will dissect a module that drives a fully functional control application constructed from the new Ignition v7.7 block-and-connector classes. The example can be used as a starting point for constructing your own block language. Attendees will leave with a blueprint showing how such an application can be put together and full source code will be provided.
43 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Construction Materials
The Power & Flexibility of Ignition: Continental Cement SCADA Port
Overbridge Technology will present a large-scale system port project performed for Continental Cement in Hannibal, Mo. The project consists of migrating approximately 25,000 tags and 90 HMI windows from a continuous-process live Citect platform to Ignition. The presentation will cover system architecture and strategy, various Ignition tools developed by Overbridge Technologies to programmatically migrate the Citect tags, along with enhancements to EasyChart for contextual pen reference trending.
45 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Energy
Switching From RSView32 to Ignition
34 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Food and Beverage
Pushing the Envelope Using Ignition
Lewis will talk about some creative solutions that Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has been able to build in Ignition. He will present some specific solutions they’ve built for challenges they’ve faced, such as creating a WMS (Warehouse Management System) using tablets and handheld barcode scanners. Enabling single sign-on security in Ignition projects using Active Directory users/roles. As well as multiple approaches to connecting to laboratory testing equipment, and more!
44 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Enterprise-Wide Architecture: Challenges & Benefits
Learn best practices on designing enterprise-wide architectures that allows you to connect all of your devices, systems and team members. We’ll examine several architecture use cases such as centralized data as well as hub and spoke with local fallback.
54 min video
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2014
Community Session
| Water/Wastewater
Powerful, Open and Cost-Effective: Select Any Three
Palechek will explain three ways engineers can approach Ignition. Find out why it’s powerful enough to outperform legacy systems and accomplish whatever you need. Learn how its OPC-UA technology and database connectivity allow information to flow as never before. See why it’s cost-effective not only in terms of licensing but in support, upkeep, and many other ways. That’s just part of what you'll learn in this great session.
45 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Mastering the MES Essentials
Those who are new to MES can learn the basics that will help them get the most of it and start building a smarter enterprise.
56 min video
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2014
IA Session
| Building Automation
Exploring The New Features & Modules of Ignition (2014)
The future of Ignition is now! Discover sequential function charts (SFCs) and other game-changers inside the latest version of Ignition.
68 min video
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