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Inductive Automation

We Make Software for Problem Solvers
90 Blue Ravine
Folsom, CA 95630
United States of America
916-456-1045 (int'l)
800-266-7798
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Product Summary

Inductive Automation produces HMI, SCADA, MES and IIoT software that reduces frustration and increases efficiency in the industrial automation market. Their software facilitates the instant accessibility of meaningful information throughout the enterprise. The company's core mission is to create industrial software that empowers customers to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles.

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At Inductive Automation, our mission is to create industrial software that empowers our customers to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles.

Ignition by Inductive Automation® is an unlimited platform for enterprise integration, industrial applications, and more. It empowers users to connect to all of the data across their enterprise, rapidly develop any type of industrial automation system, and scale their systems in any way, without limits. Ignition also offers unlimited extensibility through the addition of fully integrated modules. 

The latest version, Ignition 8.3, is the world's most advanced industrial platform, empowering your organization to unlock your data's full potential, simplify your project workflow, manage and configure systems with ease, and deploy and secure large systems like never before. 

SCADA: Control, track, display, and analyze your process. 

lIoT: Make your data more accessible and efficient with MQTT.

Enterprise: Empower teams with better data to make smarter decisions.

Digital Transformation: One platform for collecting data, connecting devices, integrating systems, visualizing operations, and deploying solutions all across your organization.

HMI: Build optimized screens to monitor and control your machinery.

Alarming: Build complex alarming systems and get notifications instantly.

Reporting: Create and deliver dynamic, database-driven industrial reports.

Mobile: Easily build monitoring and control applications in HTML5 with the Ignition Perspective Module. 

Power Monitoring: Centrally monitor, control, and optimize your power supply.

Unified Namespace: Maximize data management with an Ignition Unified Namespace solution.

Ignition Edge: Capture, process, and visualize critical data at the remote edge of your network.

Ignition Cloud Edition: Extend your enterprise operations, leverage elastic architectures, and securely host and deploy solutions on leading cloud platforms.

Ignition Technology Providers: Find valuable products and services that complement Ignition solutions, built by trusted companies.

 

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Press Releases

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California-based industrial automation and IIoT manufacturer Opto 22 announces a new, elevated partnership status with Inductive Automation as a Solution Partner. One of the first...
Sept. 26, 2023

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Though some say OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) is outdated, its use to continuously improve production operations across industry prove the value provided by this key metric...
June 10, 2022
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How Bouchaine Vineyards is using Cisco Industrial Asset Vision sensors to improve growing operations and why the use of remote access and Ethernet I/O are increasing.
Nov. 12, 2021
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A review of automation technology developments we’ve recently covered to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of industrial automation.
May 21, 2020
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In this video, Travis Cox of Inductive Automation explains updates made to the company's Ignition Edge platform to help users place devices closer to the sources of data for collection...
Feb. 10, 2020

Podcasts

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Automation World: Gets Your Questions Answered
Kevin McClusky, chief technology architect at Inductive Automation, explains why and how IT technologies such as containers, DevOps, application management and MQTT are impacting...
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Find out the difference between traditional and high-performance HMI screen styles, as well as which type manufacturers tend to use most and how difficult it is to switch from...

Resources

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Learn what 5 questions you must ask in order to reduce your production downtime, and boost your OEE (overall equipment effectivenes).
Feb. 21, 2012

Blogs

Today’s Digital Transformation Reality
Dana Inc. and Streamline Innovations show how digital transformations can start today in the discrete and process industries using Ignition to overcome legacy infrastructure’s...
Sept. 20, 2019
ExxonMobil Readies Open Process Automation Test Bed
Yokogawa Electric Corporation selected to be the system integrator responsible for establishing the company’s OPA Test Bed.
July 10, 2019
The Future of Industrial Networking
During the Automation World Conference & Expo, a panel of technology experts discussed how advanced networking technologies will lead to open, standards-based communication from...
May 22, 2019
How to Apply Industrial Machine Learning
Understanding the different types of machine learning, the algorithms that support them and how to apply them are critical to successful implementations.
Oct. 4, 2018
Open Software Is Changing Automation
Panel shares insights on how the growing complexity of software applications and end user demands are driving industrial automation toward an open source future.
Sept. 27, 2018
Value of Automation: Break the Replacement Cycle
When systems go down, you’re under pressure to just get them back up and running again. But it pays to assess whether or not you have the right parts in there and how you can ...
June 6, 2018
On the Edge of Industrial IoT
With a series of moves including incorporation of Node-RED for IoT app development, application of MQTT for data collection and transfer, and embedded edge technology partnerships...
Oct. 19, 2017
Is MQTT Winning the Industrial IoT Race?
As a number of protocols compete in the IIoT space, the support for MQTT across automation technology suppliers is gaining greater speed, and giving OEMs a tool to transform their...
Sept. 28, 2017
A Sharper Focus on the Edge
In the last year there has been a clear shift—not away from cloud computing entirely—but decidedly more toward the use of edge computing for Industrial Internet of Things applications...
Feb. 9, 2017
Introducing the Open Process Automation Forum. Finally.
ExxonMobil has spent a lot of its own energy convincing the automation community that there is a need for a standards-based control architecture. Now, under the umbrella of The...
Jan. 4, 2017

News

Ignition 8.3 beta
Ignition 8.3 adds enhanced security, streamlined data management, advanced visualization tools and OT-IT integration for next-generation industrial automation applications.
Aug. 26, 2025
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Winning projects show versatility of Ignition industrial application platform.
Oct. 21, 2021
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Inductive Automation announced today that it has achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes...
Jan. 20, 2021
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Find out about the latest application platform tools included with Ignition 8.1.
Dec. 1, 2020
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Provides Faster Development, New Features, and Long-Term Support.
Nov. 3, 2020
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The Eclipse Foundation creates a working group to support the continued development and adoption of Sparkplug, the specification that addresses MQTT interoperability issues and...
Feb. 6, 2020
Machine Learning Applications
At the 2019 Ignition Community Conference, Inductive Automation highlighted four companies applying machine learning to address production issues, as well as its own recently ...
Oct. 10, 2019
Inductive Automation Rolls out Ignition 8
The revamped industrial development platform, now generally available, addresses manufacturers’ needs for scalable architectures, mobility and enhanced security.
April 11, 2019
Redesigned Ignition Software Open for Public Testing
Inductive Automation’s rebuild of its Ignition platform for version 8 focuses on enterprise-level collaboration, enhanced security and new mobile capabilities.
Feb. 6, 2019
Inductive Automation Readies for Major New Release
The planned February 2019 release of Ignition 8 will feature an entirely new mobile app and project system tools.
Sept. 20, 2018

Articles

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Taylor Guitars used Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform to integrate decades-old CNCs, RFID workbenches and 3D scanners to help it maintain and boost quality while building...
Jan. 14, 2026
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Toyota's manufacturing sites were drowning in data silos and duplicate work until engineers discovered their digital infrastructure was creating the very waste they sought to ...
Oct. 15, 2025
Colby Clegg (left) and Carl Gould deliver the opening keynote at Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2025.
How the technology frustrations of industrial system integrators led to Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and its unlimited licensing and open architecture that continues...
Oct. 8, 2025
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Kevin McClusky from Inductive Automation explains how MQTT, containers and DevOps are bridging IT and industrial operations tech.
June 4, 2025
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Amazon Web Services, Belden, Plantformance and Stratus are the first members of this new partner program designed to highlight companies whose products and services complement...
Sept. 15, 2023
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Corso Systems and 4IR Solutions share their experiences using ChatGPT to program various tasks with the Ignition platform.
June 13, 2023
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The ability to aggregate and analyze operations and IT data in the cloud provides next-level insights set to elevate asset performance, boost product quality, and ensure proactive...
May 4, 2023
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Inductive Automation’s Ignition Cloud Edition shows how not all cloud-based software is software-as-a-service.
Feb. 28, 2023
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How the scripting libraries in Inductive Automation’s Ignition software make it easier to test functions and audit code to ensure standards compliance and make it easier to review...
Feb. 6, 2023
Jeff Winters of Microsoft presents at Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2022.
With a direct, high-level view of the impacts across industry, Microsoft’s Jeff Winter says when digital transformation is successful, it fundamentally changes everyone’s job....
Oct. 18, 2022

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Travis Cox

Chief Technology Evangelist

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Even as technology continues to advance, organizational challenges remain the biggest impediments to Industry 4.0.
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Advantech, Bedrock Automation, Cognex, Hilscher, Opto 22, and Stratus Technologies—among others—demonstrate how their products work with Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform...
Sept. 23, 2021
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Automation technology trends around mobility and data access are driving quality and process improvements to the Ignition industrial automation platform.
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The use of remote access technology to aggregate manufacturing intelligence for use by plant managers and corporate executives is expected to grow in the years to come.
Economic uncertainty and the quest for efficiency are driving the adoption of remote access technology across industry, even as growing concerns surrounding cybersecurity have...
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A look at how digitalization and the need for scalability are driving more interest and investment in cloud-based industrial applications and how automation technology suppliers...
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