Tomorrow's Engineers Cook Up A Fast-Food Application: Lessons From A Student Competition

Learn how to structure a working project with ordering interfaces, inventory management, alarming, navigation, and more, and see development techniques, best practices, and clever design tricks that you can apply to your own Ignition projects.

Say Yes To Any Automation Project With Ignition

At Inductive Automation, integrators and end users frequently tell us how they’ve completed projects with Ignition that would have been impossible or impractical with any other industrial automation software. In this webinar, experienced integrators will share some of these true stories with you. As you’ll see, adding Ignition to your toolset can take you from having to say “sorry, we can’t” to declaring “yes, we can!”

Design Like A Pro: 25+ Hidden Gems That Make Your Project Shine

Join us as two of Inductive Automation’s Ignition experts share insider tips and tricks for building projects more efficiently, working with containers, and tapping into a wealth of knowledge and resources from Ignition’s global community.

Going ‘All-In’ With Ignition: Insights From Leading Integrators

In this webinar, a panel of leading integrators will delve into their journey with Ignition — from first learning about it to making it their application-building platform of choice — and how this journey has helped their teams reach new heights of success.

License To Thrive: Bypass Project Roadblocks With Unlimited Licensing

Join us for this webinar to see what a huge difference Ignition’s unlimited licensing model can make in your future projects!

Teaming Up To Enable Digital Transformation & Unified Namespace

This webinar will highlight the benefits of using all partners within the Inductive Automation ecosystem to achieve seamless digitalization and a Unified Namespace (UNS) with reduced complexity and time.

Unleashing ROI And Innovation With Ignition

No matter how you look at ROI, Ignition is the best choice for HMI, SCADA, and Digital Transformation software. In this webinar, you’ll find out why that’s true by hearing the experiences of industrial professionals who have worked with Ignition for years.

Architecting Success With Scalable System Design

Learn about common Ignition architectures, how to customize architectures, and the Ignition Architecture Builder, a powerful resource with tools that help you create, share, and track your architectures in a single project. Additionally, we will discuss Ignition's capabilities beyond traditional SCADA architectures, showcasing its ability to accommodate unique applications with third-party modules, database services, and more.

The Making Of World-Class Control Systems

This webinar will be a great opportunity to delve into some amazing projects and get inspiration for your own work. By learning from these examples, you can hone your innovation skills to attain greater success in your controls solutions, improve your business results, and truly make your mark on the industrial automation industry.

Unifying OT & IT Through Seamless Interoperability

On August 29, discover how you can bridge the OT/IT gap through open standard technologies and Ignition’s unlimited connections. You’ll learn how Ignition’s OPC UA Module enables you to break down barriers to connectivity, with drivers for nearly any PLC.

Design Like A Pro: 25+ Tips For Lightning-Fast Development

Join industrial automation experts as they share their top tips and tricks for developing applications amazingly fast (and without compromising quality). You’ll learn about functions in the Ignition designer that shorten a project’s timeline, how to speed up scripting, time-saving techniques for using the Ignition gateway, and a whole lot more.

Assembling The Puzzle Pieces Of Digital Transformation

In this webinar, you will see how to build a scalable system for SCADA, MES, IIoT, and Digital Transformation, step by step. Experts from Inductive Automation, Cirrus Link Solutions, Sepasoft, Opto 22, and 4IR Solutions will explain how their respective software and hardware components fit together to create a seamless automation ecosystem within an Ignition Hub and Spoke Architecture.

Integrator Roundtable: Building A Successful & Sustainable Future In Manufacturing

This integrator roundtable will be packed with practical, first-hand advice on sowing the seeds of tomorrow’s success in today’s economy. Some of the best integrators across a wide range of industries will share insights on achieving great leadership, actionable tips to finding incredible talent, and what it really takes to create a company culture that cultivates success. They’ll also discuss building sustainable systems, recent challenges in integration, and emerging technologies in industrial automation. Don’t miss it!

Accelerating The Journey From Edge To Cloud To Results

In this webinar, find out how an integrated and proven set of technologies can make the edge-to-cloud journey much faster and easier. Industry experts will explain how to drive successful business outcomes through tools like unified namespace (UNS), digital twins, data lakes, KPI visualization frameworks for OEE and other metrics, and a lot more.

Boost PLC & Device Interoperability With New Drivers

On March 28, learn how to remove the limits of what you can connect your system to. You’ll discover how Ignition makes it a breeze to improve PLC connectivity. You’ll get up to speed on the new DNP3, IEC 61850, Mitsubishi, and Micro800 drivers for Ignition. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions related to the drivers or interoperability at large.

How Digital Transformation Starts With SCADA

In today's rapidly evolving industrial landscape, we cannot overstate the significance of a robust and modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. SCADA systems are at the heart of operational technology (OT), where we find most of the data needed for Digital Transformation. Ignition SCADA bridges the gap between OT and information technology (IT), facilitating the seamless flow of data essential for monitoring, control, decision-making, and much more.

Empower Innovation With Unlimited Licensing

Discover the pure magic of an unlimited licensing model in this webinar, with examples of real-world projects that benefited tremendously from having unlimited tags, clients, screens, devices, and more, for one single, astonishingly affordable price.

Data Centers: How DCIM Improves Your Daily Operations

In this webinar, experts from Inductive Automation and ATS Global will look at those common requirements and present how an open data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution based on Ignition can help you to comply, and maybe even change the public opinion about Data Centers in the long term. We’ll also present a new Ignition demo for data centers.

New Possibilities at the Edge

As industrial organizations do more at the edge of the network, important new questions are arising. What is the relationship between edge systems and centralized systems? What can you do at the edge that you couldn’t do before? How can you use the edge with the cloud effectively?

Defying Ordinary: A Deep Dive Into Unique Automation Projects

Every year, Inductive Automation shines a spotlight on modern marvels in industrial automation at the Discover Gallery, but there’s a whole lot more to these projects than we could ever capture in the showcase. In light of that, we’re diving deeper into some of this year’s most novel Ignition projects.

Expanding Connectivity with Ignition’s Mitsubishi Driver

We are continually expanding Ignition’s capabilities, adding new features, updates, and drivers. With the release of Ignition 8.1.31 this month, Ignition’s new Mitsubishi Driver now adds the MELSEC-F devices to its growing list of compatible MELSEC series, including the iQ-R, iQ-F (FX5U), Q, and L series. This latest addition is more than just an increase in compatibility, it’s a step toward making the Ignition platform more effective globally.

Design Like a Pro: Exceptional Industry-Specific HMIs

When it comes to designing an HMI, there are a few basic concepts to keep in mind, but no one-size-fits-all solution. Every screen will be unique, with functionality and requirements particular to the needs of its operators, and the more specialized the use, the more critical those differences are. So what makes an HMI excel in an industry setting?

Ditch Data Silos: Create a Unified Namespace with Ignition UDTs & MQTT

Data management can sometimes seem like the Wild West, with the chaos caused by inconsistent conventions for naming and organizing data. The current manual and point-to-point data entry methods used in the manufacturing industry result in inefficient operations, difficulty scaling, and dreaded data silos that make it hard for people to share information.

Ignition Community Live: Ignition Cloud Edition

Hotly anticipated since it was first teased at ICC 2022, Ignition Cloud Edition combines the power of Ignition with the convenience of the cloud. Join some of our Ignition experts as they answer questions from the Ignition community, and explain the best uses for Cloud Edition as well as how it compares to the standard Ignition platform.

Ignition + Docker: How to Use Containers for Faster Development

In the never-ending quest to develop and deploy automation projects more quickly, containers represent a powerful leap forward — especially when paired with Ignition. In this webinar, thought leaders from Inductive Automation and the Ignition community will discuss effective ways to use Ignition with the Docker platform, which is widely regarded as the de facto standard for building and sharing containerized apps.

Supercharge Your Power Monitoring with Ignition + IEC 61850

One of the defining features of the Ignition platform is its interoperability and now with the IEC 61850 driver, Ignition can natively connect to virtually any IEC-enabled device. Leveraging this new driver, Ignition can supercharge power-monitoring applications through a combination of expanded functionality, increased flexibility, and Industry 4.0 technology.

Breakthrough Batch Manufacturing Solutions

Batch manufacturing has not seen major innovation for decades – until now. Creating batch solutions that include process graphics, communications to business systems, traceability, e-signatures, and WIP inventory historically required purchasing and interfacing together several separate software packages, resulting in inconsistent production quality, difficulty making recipe/batch changes, and struggles to comply with regulatory requirements. Finding the right tools to conquer these challenges is key to unleashing your production’s full potential.

Design Like a Pro: Mobile-Responsive HMIs for Any Screen

Mobile apps have become exponentially more important as smart phones and tablets continue to advance and become the dominant computing devices around the world. This means creating an app that is easy to navigate, visually appealing, and functionally consistent is more necessary than ever before. However, there is no user manual to tell you what to include in your mobile app or what structure is best for your purposes.

Ignition Community Live: Ignition Certification Update

Join us as we explore the details and timeline of the new Certification process, what this means for integrators in the Integrator Program, and the reasons behind the change, as well as addressing any questions from the Ignition community.

Harnessing the Power of Edge-to-Cloud Architecture

Cloud-native applications have supercharged industrial systems with previously unthinkable levels of storage space and computing power.

De-Risk Your Digital Transformation — And Reduce Time, Cost & Complexity

Although many manufacturers want to get a Digital Transformation project going, they feel hesitant about investing major time and effort into a project that may not deliver the desired results. However, just imagine if you could achieve a quick win for Digital Transformation in only 90 minutes!

Overcoming Digital Transformation Pain Points

In order to succeed at Digital Transformation, organizations must plan and carry it out at the levels of process, technology, and culture. Because it is an all-encompassing and ongoing endeavor, the pain points associated with Digital Transformation can be more complex than those you’d encounter when doing something like a SCADA system upgrade or a first-time OEE project.

How Ignition Eases SCADA Pain Points

Although SCADA systems are the backbone of modern manufacturing, they are not immune to pain points. While new difficulties have arisen with the need for enterprise-wide Digital Transformation and implementation of IIoT-enabled technologies, many of the issues afflicting integrators and end users have persisted for years.

Ignition Community Live: What to Expect at ICC X

This year’s Ignition Community Conference (ICC) is right around the corner! Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at ICC X that will help you to truly make the most of it, whether you plan to attend virtually or in person.

New Ignition Features In Action

Ignition 8.1 was released in late 2020, bringing many exciting new features like Perspective Workstation, Perspective Symbols, Power Chart, and plenty more. Ignition 8.2 will still be in the works for a while, but that doesn't mean that you have to wait long for new features and improvements. The Ignition software development team puts out “release train” updates nearly every month, and each one comes loaded with significant features that are based on user requests.

Ignition Community Live: Ask a Sales Engineer

The Ignition community always asks outstanding questions about industrial automation, software, and technology. For our second installment of “Ask A Sales Engineer,” Co-Director of Sales Engineering Travis Cox will answer attendees’ questions, whether about SCADA, HMI, IIoT, digital transformation, machine learning, Ignition, or beyond! With such a wide range of important topics, missing this webinar is out of the question.

Solving Data Problems to Accelerate Digital Transformation

One of the biggest Digital Transformation challenges companies face is how to make the most of their data. Problems like stranded data, lengthy setup times for systems, and difficulties bringing IT and OT data together inhibit an organization’s ability to gather insights. Without these insights to fuel the decision-making process, many companies end up stalled on their Digital Transformation journey.

Ignition Community Live: Behind the Scenes of IntegrateLive!

You already know Inductive Automation helps build great SCADA solutions and information platforms ... but did you know they have also helped build an incredible friendship resulting in a new community that is uniting industrial automation changemakers from around the world? Learn more about this exciting new project as we are joined by Allen Ray (head of the Ignition Cross-Industry Collective) and Jeff Knepper (Canary Labs) for what is sure to be an entertaining episode where we look behind the scenes at what it takes to build a service-oriented community.

Security Best Practices for Your Ignition System

Cybersecurity is a moving target. The techniques and technologies of yesteryear won’t necessarily protect your system in this highly interconnected era of IIoT-enabled systems. As attacks on industrial control systems become increasingly commonplace, it’s more vital than ever to stay up to date on the latest in security best practices to mitigate risk and maintain peace of mind.

Ignition Community Live: OEE Accelerator Built with Ignition Perspective

Understanding how your manufacturing systems and assets are performing is one of the first steps to real-time operational insights, identifying opportunities for improvement, and intelligent Smart Manufacturing initiatives. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the essential, industry-standard metric for capturing asset utilization and efficiency.

Turn Any Panel PC Into an Ignition HMI

The traditional human-machine interface (HMI) is a hardware-and-software solution used to view and track data in all kinds of industrial settings. Lately, supply-chain problems have led to long wait times when ordering traditional HMIs. But don't worry: It’s easy to turn any panel PC into an Ignition HMI solution, and in this webinar we'll show you how!

5 Mobile-Responsive Layout Strategies

In our smartphone-dominated world, developers need to make HMI screens and applications that will look great on small, medium, and large devices. Are you familiar with the mobile-responsive layout strategies that make this possible?

Ignition Community Live: Practical Ways to Use Ignition to Achieve Digital Transformation

The phrase "Digital Transformation" is taking the world by storm — but is there substance behind the hype? In this presentation, executives from 4IR will describe current trends in manufacturing digital transformation and show how these initiatives deviate from technology adoption cycles of the past. We will close with a technical showcase of specific, practical examples of Ignition techniques you can use today in support of digital transformation initiatives.

Bringing Digital Transformation Into Focus

Today it seems like every company is embarking on a journey of Digital Transformation. While this is a necessary shift, only those companies that see the big picture will succeed at it, which means looking at not only the technological aspect of Digital Transformation but its wider impact on processes, people, and programs.

Ignition Community Live: Ignition Platform Demo

In this Ignition demo, Inductive Automation’s Travis Cox shows the range of capabilities Ignition has, and how it’s the SCADA software of the future.

Integrators Explore the Road Ahead

After navigating many unforeseen challenges in 2020 and 2021, how should system integrators move forward in 2022? The answer will be different for every integrator, which is why we’ve gathered a group of experienced integration professionals who work in a variety of areas and industries to talk about what lies ahead.

Top 10 Design & Security Tips to Elevate Your SCADA System

Inductive Automation explains why It's more important than ever to embrace modern technology and security standards through collaboration with IT and OT.