University Research Lab Centralizes Solar Field Data With Ignition

LA RTC collaborated with TIGA to consolidate the data from their solar fields into a unified Ignition system, enabling better data management and demonstrating the magnitude of the lab’s research.

Metaldom Case Study: Building a Custom MES for Steel Manufacturing

Metaldom had a problem — their data was arriving too slowly to make decisions. Even worse, after the data was manually entered into their Manufacturing Execution System (MES), plant floor operators still didn’t trust it. Based on their extensive history working together, Metaldom turned to Dominican Republic-based system integrator Intelca to develop and implement a custom MES solution using Ignition.

Mobile Energy Provider Implements Ignition for Dynamic, Remote SCADA

When most people think of SCADA, they probably imagine a plant floor defined by production lines. Odds are though, this mental image features stationary equipment. In contrast, Certarus’ assets are always on the move, which makes sense, because SCADA only begins to describe the organization’s use of Ignition — the enterprise industrial integration platform for SCADA, IIoT, HMI, and more.

Ignition-Based Framework Powers SCADA for Urban Microgrid Project

The electrical grid has existed for just shy of a century and a half, but as continual access to power has become increasingly crucial for work, education, and daily life, energy companies must find sustainable solutions to provide for their customers, especially in highly populated urban areas.

Revitalized Bourbon Distillery Merges Tradition With Innovation

Bourbon distillery Castle & Key implemented Ignition at their facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the help of Gray AES to replace an outdated FactoryTalk system. The mobile-responsive Ignition application was Gray AES’ first large-scale project using Perspective, featuring a high-performance HMI, alarming, and reporting, but most importantly access to historical data.

Clovis Community College Puts Industry 4.0 Into The Hands Of Students & Teachers

Next to the robotic arms, the off-the-shelf miniature smart homes may not appear to be a key part of Clovis Community College’s Automation, Robotics & Mechatronics lab, but this unassuming hardware is providing students and instructors alike with a unique opportunity to build industry-grade automation applications.

How Inductive Automation Uses Ignition

Here at Inductive Automation, we have found plenty of everyday uses for Ignition because it allows us to create customized tools that generate tremendous value. Discover a few of the ways we leverage our own software platform.

Water Infrastructure Company Replaces Point-To-Point VPN With MQTT

Goodnight Midstream chose Ignition because it could fulfill several requirements: data mining and business intelligence work on the system backend; powerful Linux-based edge deployments; easy upgrades that could be performed by administrative staff; location data driven by an external database; and template support.

Iron Foundry Gains Competitive Edge & Increases Efficiency with Innovative Technology

With help from Artek, Ferroloy implemented Ignition to digitally transform their disconnected foundry through efficient data collection and analysis while integrating the new system with existing software and specialized machinery.

Variety of Connections, Unlimited Licensing Aid Cancer Therapy

Autolus Therapeutics is working hard to deliver life-changing benefits to cancer patients.

Two Companies Assist University with Engineering Education

For engineering students, experience with real-world tools can be very beneficial.

Improved Efficiency and Reporting for Large Manufacturer

Atlas Copco is a global company based in Stockholm, Sweden, with 40,000 employees worldwide.

Three Companies Aid Engineering Education

In many ways, today’s engineering students are our future. They’ll be key players in keeping our industries running for the next few decades.

AriZona Beverages Case Study: Connecting SCADA and MES to SAP

AriZona Beverages implemented a system based on Ignition and Sepasoft MES for its SCADA integration with SAP. Learn more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

From Edge to Cloud in Record Time

In under six months, ARB Midstream built a complete Ignition SCADA system for an oil pipeline with 37 sites while upgrading hardware, creating a new network, adding edge computing, and more.

Ignition Meets FSMA Requirements for Better Food Safety

SmartWash Solutions is based in Salinas, California, near Silicon Valley and the California Central Valley — one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. It’s the perfect location for a food-safety technology company. SmartWash cares a great deal about food safety. That’s why it’s enabling data collection and analysis for its customers, and also helping those customers meet requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) created FSMA to strengthen prevention of foodborne illness.

Entire Brewing Process on a Single Software Platform

MadTree Brewing in Ohio starts using Ignition for its brewery SCADA system as the company grows rapidly. Learn about brewing beer with SCADA in this Ignition case study.

Leveraging Data from More Than 20 Applications Built on Ignition

JMA has built more than 20 applications on top of the Ignition platform, and plans to create even more in the future. The flexibility of Ignition allows JMA to quickly design whatever it needs. The software also gives JMA numerous options when it comes to absorbing data and analyzing it. The result has been a rise in productivity.

Pharma Company Meets Standards for 21 CFR 11 with Ignition

When Bachem Americas needed a system for human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), it required one that could not only improve its processes, but also satisfy requirements from the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 11 — also known as 21 CFR 11 — establishes rules for the use of electronic records and signatures, covering authentication, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and more.

Solar-Power Provider Improves Integration, Data Analysis, and Reporting

DEPCOM has been using Ignition for its solar SCADA system to monitor and control its solar power plants since 2015. Learn more in this SCADA case study from Inductive Automation.

Early Success with Ignition Leads to Expanded Role

When CFF wanted a comprehensive software package that could run processes across several departments while collecting and analyzing data, it turned to Ignition by Inductive Automation®. Ignition is an industrial application platform with numerous tools for building solutions in human-machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Ignition Increases Flexibility, Lowers Costs for Two Water Utilities

Both Mountain Regional Water District and Park City Water have seen significant improvements since switching from their previous SCADA systems to Ignition. MRW saves more than $400,000 per year on energy with greater control from Ignition. Park City saves the equivalent of one full-time employee by using Ignition to automate its reports to a state agency. Both utilities plan to do more with Ignition in the future. And operators are becoming more engaged with the data at both organizations, creating their own screens in Ignition.

Largest Cherry Production Line in the World Thrives on Ignition

Ignition enables Prima Frutta to share data about the line with workers throughout the plant. Every day, 10 managers and 900 other employees get data from more than 120 video screens around the facility. The screens are three different sizes: 27 inches, 32 inches, and 60 inches. Every year, Prima Frutta adds more monitors.

Clearing for Take-Off with Ignition

After understanding the needs for this particular project, we felt that Ignition was tailor-made for this. It’s a very open system, and we like the development and operation environment. We thought it was well-suited for this type of web-based system.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Makes Ignition Its Go-To SCADA Solution

Ignition expands the limits of SCADA for breweries by providing more features for IT and the ability to grow their SCADA systems exponentially. Learn more in this Ignition SCADA case study.

Mining Company Achieves Zero Downtime SCADA Migration And Proactive Efficiencies With Ignition

Westgold Resources' new Ignition-based SCADA solution delivers high-performance interfaces and alarming, built on recognised best practices for design and useability, while offering scalability, enhanced operational safety, and a future-proof solution able to support the growth of the site.

Advanced Integration Software Propels University Rocketry Team to New Heights

Over two years, as part of Project Zenith, the students in MHPR have designed and manufactured the Solaris MkII hybrid rocket engine, targeting a 10,000-foot apogee on its launch. Recently, the MHPR team took Project Zenith across the globe to Midland, Texas for the International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC). Throughout the rocket’s development and during the competition, MHPR leveraged Ignition to ensure a successful launch.

MES Solution Delivers Traceability & Flexibility To Juice Concentrate Manufacturer’s New Facility

In 2022, Döhler South Africa realized they were reaching capacity in their production facility, an impasse that countless growing companies have reached. With the help of INTEG System Integrators, Döhler successfully implemented a massive manufacturing system built in Ignition that balances a staggering amount of functionality with an intuitive interface.

Driving Efficiency and Visibility at rPlanet Earth

rPlanet Earth partnered with Kanoa to implement Kanoa MES — a modular, composable manufacturing execution system built specifically for Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform.

Sterilization Scheduling Application Eliminates Recipe Control Gap For Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

In an industry like pharmaceuticals, maintaining quality and compliance is a strict requirement, not an optional goal. Outdated or ineffective technologies and methods can not only hamper efficiency, but also stunt growth and potentially affect product quality. That was the situation Sandalwood Systems Integration Group found itself in with one customer who was having difficulty bridging the gap between their scheduling application and their ERP system.

Building Product Manufacturer Implements Cutting-Edge MES Solution At 15 Plants And Counting

CertainTeed, a division of Saint-Gobain North America, has adopted Ignition along with many of the core Sepasoft modules to deploy ‘FaCTory+’ – a Vision-based MES solution. This system is currently being utilized by 15+ plants with many more on the roadmap. The key reasons behind its success are the close collaboration between the IT, operational, and business teams; its user-friendly and data-centric UI; and the sophisticated architecture that has allowed CertainTeed to scale easily from site to site.

Object-Oriented Approach Facilitates Improved Control For Large-Scale Neutrino Experiment

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is the latest large-scale neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which will be used to analyze the properties of neutrinos, a family of elusive fundamental particles. The main volume of the detector consists of 112 tons of liquid argon, kept cold and pure by an elaborate cryogenic system, which is monitored and controlled via Ignition.

Food Manufacturer Uses Ignition To Enhance Efficiency & Quality In Three Largest Bakeries

Goodman Fielder is a food manufacturer with a portfolio of well-known grocery and foodservice brands. Goodman Fielder’s markets span Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Islands, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia. This project includes the Goodman Fielder Baking division in Australia, starting with their three largest bakeries: Clayton in Melbourne, Victoria; Moorebank in Sydney, New South Wales; Burleigh Heads in Gold Coast, Queensland. Goodman Fielder envisaged streamlining the day-to-day production processes through Digital Transformation and implementing modern Industry 4.0 best practices and technology. To enhance production efficiency and product quality from the mixing equipment, Goodman Fielder identified the need for additional data automation, prompting the establishment of a SAP, Recipe, and Scheduling Initiative.

Ignition Aids Large SCADA Agriculture Project Outside Cairo

Madkour Group needed to achieve Digital Transformation on the project infrastructure and automation system for the National Project for Developing the New Valley in Toshka. The project aims to reclaim one million acres outside of Cairo as part of Egypt’s overall plan to reclaim and cultivate three million acres in total. Leveraging Ignition’s scalable architecture, unlimited licensing, flexibility, and rapid development tools, Madkour established a central control building to easily operate, manage, and maintain a large number of sites, equipment, and facilities spread out across this vast desert area.

Ignition-Based UNS Provides Real-Time Orchestration For Pharmaceutical Company

The FMS (Factory Management System) is a real-time automation orchestrator for the entire plant, including production equipment, intra-plant logistics, warehouses, utilities and clean rooms. Through the integration with Level 2, 3 and 4 applications, the FMS delivers a layer of abstraction and a single-point-of-access that allows operations to monitor and control all processes in real time. FMS’ abstraction layer is based on the concept of the Unified Namespace where all applications can exchange the required information for process automation in a decoupled architecture and where Cinfa has set the information semantic model of its business.

Rock Quarry Implements Ignition to Improve Visibility, Safety & Decision-Making

George Reed, with the help of Factory Technologies, was looking to further automate the processes at its quarries and make Ignition an organization-wide standard.