Integrating Ignition with Exciting Peripherals

Ignition is based on open standards, is deployable anywhere, provides data to anyone, and can integrate with virtually any system or device. This allows you to leverage best-in-class technology with seamless integration to Ignition. Perspective and the native iOS and Android application is a perfect example of this. Ignition enables people to extend their applications to a phone or tablet by leveraging the camera, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth LE, and other mobile tools. In this session, you’ll get some exciting use cases and live demos featuring one exciting OT peripheral and one very cool guest appearance you won’t want to miss!

Build-A-Thon

Behold, another Build-a-Thon is upon us, complete with all the intrigue, feats of daring design, unexpected surprises, and singing that usually accompany such a monumental event. This year, teams from two top integration companies will battle to see who can design the best Ignition project. Don't miss all the excitement of witnessing the crowning of a new Build-a-Thon champion live at this educational, one-of-a-kind competitive SCADA event!

Technical Keynote: What's New in Ignition 8.3

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

Main Keynote: Exploring the Impact of the Ignition Community

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

Build-A-Thon

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

Technical Keynote

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

From LinkedIn Connections to Community Leaders: The Automation Ladies Experience

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

An Overview of Ignition’s MongoDB Connector Module

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

Hitting a Home Run with Ignition

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

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

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

Rising to the Challenge - Adventures in System Conversion

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

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

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

Integrator Panel

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

Tyson’s Smart Factory Journey

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

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

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

Elevate Your OT Data Securely to the Cloud

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

We Love Ignition. But Can it REALLY Scale?

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

Deployment Patterns for Ignition on Kubernetes

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

Separating Design From Development - Using Design Tools with Ignition

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

Ignition Exchange Resource Showcase

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

Ignition Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics

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

Introduction to Automated Testing of Perspective Projects

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

Industry Panel: ICC 2023

I4.0 Accelerator for Driving Edge to Cloud Business Outcomes

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

Sepasoft MES Orchestration for Digital Transformation

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

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

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

Main Keynote: Elevating Automation

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kanoa Exhibitor Demo: Kanoa: MES for the Masses

Kanoa MES is a modern Smart Manufacturing solution designed in and for Ignition. Learn about the Kanoa MES Modules, Kanoa MES Database, and Kanoa APP Ignition project you'll use to get started with Kanoa MES. Check out a live demo of Kanoa Ops and Kanoa Quality to see how you can configure your MES in days and get insights into your manufacturing data with ease.

Demystifying The Unified Namespace with Ignition

Unified Namespaces (UNS) have the power to streamline OT data by breaking through communication barriers between devices and applications. By leveraging the Ignition platform and MQTT, UNS can open the door to transformative potential for operational and enterprise applications. But what even is a UNS? Join Cirrus Link as they leverage Ignition and MQTT to implement UNS and their transformative potential for applications, and share details about the core functionalities of UNS. By the end of the session you'll be equipped with the knowledge to harness the power of unified data and unlock new possibilities for your industrial operations.

Phoenix Contact Exhibitor Demo: Enabling the Digital Transformation

Learn more about our networking and automation portfolio as a complement to Ignition. We will showcase our PLCnext technology with Modular I/O, Ethernet switches, and new MQTT / MODBUS protocol converter products. We will introduce you to new upcoming technologies based on Single Pair Ethernet and APL.

SafetyChain Exhibitor Demo: The SafetyChain Module for Ignition: Leveraging Real Time Data & Driving Productivity

Learn how process manufacturers are leveraging the power of SafetyChain & Ignition to drive meaningful value in their production environments. We’ll cover how manufacturers benefit from seamlessly connected systems and the broader impact that has on various segments of their operations. You’ll hear about a case study where thousands of data points derived from a complex manufacturing process were leveraged to drastically improve quality and production metrics. Finally, we will showcase how easy it is for manufacturers to connect SafetyChain and Ignition with a live demo.

Eurotech Exhibitor Demo: Discover the Benefits of Running Ignition on Cybersecure and Certified Devices

Eurotech will showcase the benefits of running Ignition on an ISA62443-4-2 certified device. This demonstration will highlight how Eurotech's advanced device management capabilities can simplify the process for OT systems integrators to securely manage applications remotely. Attendees will gain insights into how the integration of Eurotech's ReliaCOR 40-13 Industrial PC with Ignition software provides a robust and cybersecure foundation for industrial applications. This collaboration not only meets stringent cybersecurity standards but also enhances the efficiency and scalability.

Snowflake Exhibitor Demo: Unlocking Smart Manufacturing with IT/OT Convergence on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Modern manufacturing generates vast amounts of data from diverse sources, creating challenges in data integration and utilization. Traditionally, data silos have hindered the scalability of analytics across manufacturing and supply chains. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud breaks down these barriers by seamlessly converging IT and OT data, accelerating smart manufacturing initiatives. Join us to explore how Snowflake empowers manufacturers to harness the full potential of their data, driving innovation and operational excellence in the era of AI and Industry 4.0.

4IR Solutions Exhibitor Demo: 4IR Solutions’ FactoryStackTM – OT, As-a-Service

4IR Solutions will demonstrate how their platforms can deliver OT, As-a-Service in the cloud or on premises making it easier, faster and cheaper to build and manage your Ignition infrastructure.

Sepasoft Exhibitor Demo: Sepasoft’s Workflow Solution: Building Bobbles With Batch

Sepasoft’s workflow solution can map out and execute the production process for almost anything – including made-to-order bobbleheads! Our demo will showcase how simple it is to manage production workflows, collect real-time data, and utilize document management with 3D models and form entry. We’ll also highlight how to authenticate and verify every action during production for compliance and accountability using Electronic Batch Records (EBR) and electronic signatures. Join us to see the latest Batch Procedure technology in action.

Cirrus Link Exhibitor Demo: Everything Cirrus Link MQTT and Cloud Connectivity

This session provides an overview of Cirrus Link to include MQTT Architectures, the MQTT Modules and their use cases. It will also touch on MQTT SparkplugB, the Unified Namespace as well as cloud connectivity through the cloud injector modules and IoT Bridge products.

SiteSync Exhibitor Demo: IIoT Made Easy With SiteSync and Ignition

SiteSync leverages the LoRaWAN sensor connectivity technology to allow industrial users to bring stranded assets and manual measurements into a central source of truth for data visualization, alarming, and advanced AI analysis all powered by the Ignition Platform. SiteSync enables field users to deploy IIoT sensors with the same ease of commercial IoT systems via preconfigured devices and QR codes so that these Digital Transformation initiatives can be implemented at scale. In addition to LoRaWAN sensors, SiteSync recognizes that many end users have thousands of HART compatible sensors and the additional HART data is another stranded asset that can be used for Digital Transformation. SiteSync will introduce a new asset management tool focused on HART sensors all powered through the Ignition platform.

Hive MQ Exhibitor Demo: Comprehensive Data Management Solution with MQTT, Sparkplug and UNS

In today’s data-driven world, effective data management is crucial for manufacturers seeking to harness the full potential of their production assets. As industrial environments become increasingly connected, the need for a comprehensive data management solution that ensures real-time, reliable, and scalable communication is more critical than ever. HiveMQ with its enterprise MQTT platform that is highly reliable, scalable and secure provides that ideal platform working with the Ignition ecosystem. We will showcase some of our new product offerings like our Sparkplug module for DataHub enabling metrics fan out and other offerings that will complement the Ignition Edge platform, building the UNS framework to streamline data collection, integration, and dissemination, ultimately driving smarter decisions, greater operational efficiency, and supporting advanced use cases like AI.

Opto 22 Exhibitor Demo Break Through the Status Quo in Industrial Automation

Tired of closed PLC platforms with proprietary protocols and high licensing costs? This presentation shows you how Opto 22's groov products can help you break through the status quo in industrial automation. With groov EPIC and RIO systems running Ignition Edge out-of-the-box, you can control edge operations and securely democratize production data from the plant floor to IT systems—even to the cloud. Discover the open, cybersecure architecture and free support and training resources that make Opto 22 groov hardware ideal for your next Ignition project.

Flow Exhibitor Demo: Stop Coding, Start Scaling: Optimize Data Transformation for KPIs, Batch Reporting, OEE, and Beyond

Using our OEE template as an example, we'll demonstrate how you can streamline your Ignition projects by avoiding complex coding and scripting. This is all about scaling your data processing while adding centralized data and engineering governance. Every new KPI we calculate, event we detect, and batch we process, will be served back to Ignition, an MQTT broker, and to the enterprise data warehouse.

How Ignition Saves Time Money & Lives for Medical Charity

See firsthand how UK charity SERV Kent uses Ignition to create an AWS cloud-based volunteer management system to revolutionize its medical transport operations. Driven by Ignition Perspective, this application replaces archaic manual processes with intuitive interfaces featuring real-time geolocation data transfers, GDPR-compliant security, and optimized volunteer, vehicle, and product management. Hear Chris Taylor discuss the project’s challenges, solutions, progression, and future enhancements and breakthroughs that will bolster SERV Kent's mission-critical endeavors.

Ericsson Exhibitor Demo: Edge Computing and Private Cellular Networks for Smart Manufacturing (formally Cradlepoint)

Ericsson’s 5G-focused solutions turn connectivity into productivity by delivering intelligent communications at the edge that are more secure, versatile, and easier to manage than WiFi. See real-world business-critical use cases that exemplify how private 5G solutions accelerate operations, improve reliability, and enhance working conditions, all while reducing cost and latency.

How Ignition is boosting SCADA in the Biotech Industry

With a demand for flexibility and a strong focus on quality, SCADA systems play a crucial role in ensuring smooth operation of processes within the highly regulated Biotech industry. As a leader in the field, Cytiva is accustomed to developing solutions designed for the lab environment. Attend this session to get a peek into the technical aspects where Ignition has been leveraged to help meet customer demands, including dynamic OPC connections and integrated eLearning.

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

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

Breaking Through Limits: Igniting Transformation in Manufacturing

Follow Entegris and NeoMatrix's joint journey to digital transformation. Beginning in 2008, the two organizations recognized the need to upgrade the SCADA platforms of multiple machines, and they chose Inductive Automation's solutions. From Ignition's precursor FactoryPMI and FactorySQL to today's Ignition 8.1 with Perspective, this session will take you on a tour of how these partners established Ignition as its standard OT platform for increasing scalability and cost savings as they continue to grow globally and expand to multiple manufacturing industries.

Breakthrough to the Other Gateways: A Deep Dive Into the Gateway Network

Multi-gateway deployments are becoming more commonplace, and Ignition's gateway network provides the backbone for redundancy, enterprise management, and sharing data between gateways. Join us for this session and take a look at various Gateway Network parameters and settings that drive customer solutions.

Breaking Through Manufacturing Challenges with DxOps Transformation

Learn how to combine consistent processes with novel concepts to break through challenges in downtime tracking and OEE visibility. In this session, RoviSys will share how their DxOps Transformation approach, used at Nice Pak, helped overcome high variation between production lines and facilities, lack of data connectivity, extensive turnover, and data integrity gaps. Learn how to standardize integration methods for better scalability and real-time tracking and see how these solutions can enhance efficiency in your facilities. Don’t miss this "how to" guide on transforming challenges into opportunities for breakthrough success!

Scaling to New Heights: Enterprise Ignition with Ease

In this session, 4IR Solutions will showcase best practices and technologies to rapidly deploy and remotely manage large-scale Ignition systems in the cloud and on-prem across hundreds of sites. We'll demonstrate zero-touch provisioning and real-time updates to a fleet of Ignition installations.

Optimizing Load Time in Ignition Perspective

How can you ensure that screens load fast and actions are snappy when using Ignition Perspective to create bigger and better projects? Learn how in this presentation, which will discuss strategies for optimizing screen development, organizing nested views, and analyzing Perspective execution. You’ll also get a look at simple rules-of-thumb for bindings, complex custom svg components, and where to strike the balance between performance and maintainability.

Creating Predictive Maintenance Alert using Ignition + Canary DB

This session provides an in depth walkthrough of how Shamrock Foods Company is able to collect motor data and use it to alert maintenance personnel of a potentially failing asset. This tutorial will walk you through the steps from PLC amp data to Ignition, Ignition data sent to Canary DB, Canary DB calculations of average + Standard Deviation of data, and back to Ignition to generate alarms.

How Ignition is Enabling the Future of Oil & Gas

The oil & gas industry relies on SCADA for all its major production activities. But oil & gas companies often have large-scale, complex requirements that require unique solutions to not only monitor the field, but also integrate that data throughout the enterprise. Attend this session to learn how Ignition is meeting the unique requirements of oil & gas companies with Techneaux and Bifrost.

How To Harness Modern MES for AI and Innovation

Learn from MES-experts Sepasoft how MES fuels the success of AI and BI initiatives, driving organizations toward actionable insights and a competitive edge. In the Industry 4.0 era, the success of AI and BI technologies in manufacturing hinges on high-quality data. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) play a crucial role integrating with the plant floor and enriching production data with essential metadata, plus adding valuable context for machine learning and advanced analytics. MES provides real-time visibility for informed decision-making and cuts the typical 80% time investment data scientists devote to becoming subject matter experts and preprocessing data.

Ignition to ERP: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Looking to leverage Ignition to seamlessly connect with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain (D365)? This session will cover best practices and lessons learned from two perspectives: an Ignition developer, and an enterprise solutions architect. Flexware Innovation’s Ignition Team and Enterprise Solutions Team work together to merge IT with OT for true digital transformation. From this collaboration emerged a set of best practices (and lessons learned) that will be shared with the Ignition community. Presentation examples will center on D365, but the foundational architecture principles can apply to your ERP system, too.

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Strategies for SCADA Systems

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

Level up your Python: Best Practices for Clean and Consistent Code

Gain valuable insights into writing clean and maintainable Python code, whether you're a Python beginner or a seasoned developer. In this session, you’ll get practical knowledge of PEP 8, explore best practices for code formatting and style, and discover tools to streamline your workflow.

Break Through Power & Energy Barriers with Ignition

What’s the power of tracking your organization’s energy use? Understanding your energy data reduces your operational costs, and helps you assess equipment health and meet regulatory or ESG guidelines. It’s hard to manage what you can’t measure. In this session, you’ll see how to quickly incorporate energy monitoring into your Ignition projects using free Ignition Exchange resources. Plus, you’ll hear from a State of Indiana representative who created the Energy INsights program that helps Indiana-based manufacturers address energy use while taking steps toward digitally transforming their business operations.

Deeper Dive into 8.3: New Features

We have even more exciting Ignition 8.3 features to show you! Join us in the second of two sessions as we continue to share what’s new with 8.3. This time, we’re looking at some project-level resources and other features available through the designer, including new Perspective features, changes to the Tag Historian Module, and the brand-new Event Streams resource.

Industry Panel: Driving Innovation and Transformation in Industrial Organizations

Hear from a panel of industry thought leaders and experts as they explore how utilizing data and technology can inspire new ideas, open new opportunities, and drive digital transformation efforts in industrial organizations.

Closing Keynote: Where Do We Go From Here?

In this final session of the conference, we'll look forward to what's next. Join Inductive Automation speakers for exciting presentations and an engaging Q&A panel about the road ahead for Ignition's development, the expansion of technical support, and the evolution of Inductive Automation's customer experience.

Integrator Panel: What Tech and Trends Are Breaking Through?

Discover which pivotal new technologies and trends that are reshaping the future of automation for industrial organizations. In this engaging panel discussion, some of the Ignition community's most successful integration professionals will share their strategies in response to these evolving technologies.

8.3 Deep Dive: Platform Updates

There’s so much going into 8.3 that we need a few sessions to talk about it all! Join us in this first of two sessions where we look closer at a few exciting changes happening at the platform level, and what it means for deployments in the future. In this session, we’ll focus on changes to the platform, such as the file system, API access, and secret management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sikker innlogging til Ignition med BankID og Vipps

Slik sikrer du innlogging i Ignition ved å bruke moderne elektronisk identifikasjon for sikker identifikasjon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Water And Wastewater: Exploring The Next Generation of Remote Telemetry Monitoring

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Prepare su Aplicación Para Ciberataques (Spanish)

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.

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.

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.

Conozca Acerca de las Herramientas de Historización (Spanish)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scaling MES with Sepasoft

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Achieving Regulatory Compliance with Ignition

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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.

Start Building Practical Field-to-Enterprise IIoT Connectivity with OPC-UA

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Building Future-Proof Utility Systems

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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.

Megatrends That Impact Industrial Automation

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Fundamentals of Intrinsic Cyber Defense in ICS

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