Inductive Automation Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.