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.

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.