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. By cross-pollinating IT and SCADA technologies, we created Ignition, an industrial automation platform for unlimited digital transformation. Ignition empowers industrial organizations around the world, including 65% of the Fortune 100, with tools for building virtually any industrial application.
Ignition is the industry’s first database-centric, cross-platform, web-deployed industrial application platform for SCADA, HMI, IIoT, MES and more — and it features an unlimited licensing model.
SCADA: Control, track, display, and analyze your process.
IloT: 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 full-fledged monitoring and control applications in HTML5 with the Ignition Perspective Module.
MES: Track your production, manage recipes, calculate OEE, and more.
Power Monitoring: Centrally monitor, control, and optimize your power supply.
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.
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...
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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.
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...
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...
During the Automation World Conference & Expo, a panel of technology experts discussed how advanced networking technologies will lead to open, standards-based communication from...
Understanding the different types of machine learning, the algorithms that support them and how to apply them are critical to successful implementations.
Panel shares insights on how the growing complexity of software applications and end user demands are driving industrial automation toward an open source future.
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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...
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...
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...
The Eclipse Foundation creates a working group to support the continued development and adoption of Sparkplug, the specification that addresses MQTT interoperability issues and...
At the 2019 Ignition Community Conference, Inductive Automation highlighted four companies applying machine learning to address production issues, as well as its own recently ...
The revamped industrial development platform, now generally available, addresses manufacturers’ needs for scalable architectures, mobility and enhanced security.
Inductive Automation’s rebuild of its Ignition platform for version 8 focuses on enterprise-level collaboration, enhanced security and new mobile capabilities.
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 ...
How the technology frustrations of industrial system integrators led to Inductive Automation's Ignition platform and its unlimited licensing and open architecture that continues...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Four diverse applications—from gas processing and water utilities to airline baggage handling and lumber production—show how Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform scales far...
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On its own, the answer is clearly “no.” But when SCADA/HMI is the core of the platform, as it is with Ignition, Inductive Automation is demonstrating how the software can be used...
Launch of the Sparkplug Compatibility Program enables automation technology suppliers to certify compatibility with the Eclipse Sparkplug protocol and MQTT-based Internet of Things...
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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...
Automation technology trends around mobility and data access are driving quality and process improvements to the Ignition industrial automation platform.
Economic uncertainty and the quest for efficiency are driving the adoption of remote access technology across industry, even as growing concerns surrounding cybersecurity have...
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...
Applications of machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence have been recognized in robotics and analytics. Now the technology is adding some spice to basic control...
Pluspetrol replaced its aging SCADA systems with Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform to track multiple geographically dispersed sites in the Ecuadorian jungle.
System consolidation offers a number of cost and complexity reduction benefits. But when it comes to mission critical systems, do the benefits outweigh the risks? A system integrator...
From the evolving standard to test labs, movement to an interoperable framework is taking shape. But the OPAF group is asking for more help from manufacturers.
As remote access, digital transformation initiatives, and enterprise-wide systems integration efforts continue to expand, cybersecurity is a growing concern. That’s why operators...
As a pandemic forces social distancing, manufacturers are using technology to stay connected, creating a new vision for how data is aggregated, shared, and acted upon to unite...
Grasping the concept of virtualization is an important factor in developing and deploying Industrial Internet of Things applications because of how virtualization enables scale...
The Ignition software platform from Inductive Automation can now connect more easily to SAP ERP systems; also a personal home version of the software is available for the maker...
Though outdated, many organizations continue to use spreadsheets and whiteboards to keep track of and consolidate data. MadTree Brewing Company was among those companies until...
The publish/subscribe communication paradigm promises an era of real-time data exchange and increased flexibility to support next-generation IIoT applications and flexible manufacturing...
Sepasoft OEE Downtime Module helped Samtec transform its manufacturing data processes to provide real-time visibility of process variables, as well as monitoring for key quality...
Moving to a new HMI built from Inductive Automation’s software platform allows Bardstown Bourbon to automatically deliver work orders from its ERP system, implement a custom batch...
As more automation technology suppliers incorporate open-source tools, the ability to use open-source software in automation projects no longer depends on access to arcane software...
Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable...
As Industry 4.0 looms large, manufacturers are facing a significant reskilling effort to capitalize on new opportunities while maintaining legacy automation environments.
Food and pharmaceutical industries are adopting Industry 4.0 technologies to modernize manufacturing for both regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.
The cloud, the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence—all are in the script making enterprise resource planning a rising star again.
The maker of large-duty trucks like Freightliner and Western Star brands overhauled downtime issues on its long assembly lines with the implementation of SCADA and MES platforms...
As manufacturers are inundated with information from the Industrial Internet of Things, automation suppliers explore new ways to manage the data by turning HMI into the hub of...
California Family Foods responded to the ever-changing food and beverage landscape by adding a new SCADA platform from Inductive Automation as part of a comprehensive plant upgrade...
The Open Process Automation Forum has been hard at work to develop a reference architecture that will transform process control systems. But there are still concerns around functionalit...
Inductive Automation’s Ignition Onboard program, wherein the company’s Ignition software is embedded in partner hardware, expands to include 10 companies.
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With Inductive Automation’s forthcoming release of embedded Ignition and Ignition Edge, which will initially be offered on Opto 22 and Hilscher devices, users can collect data...
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The foremost application of the Industrial Internet of Things is remote monitoring. With the help of MQTT, the grain industry demonstrates how to leverage a multi-protocol, legacy...
A large control and SCADA upgrade at a California-based fruit company increases production by 50 percent and sets a foundation for more plant efficiencies.
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Inductive Automation has officially released Ignition Edge, a lightweight, low-cost line of products based on its flagship Ignition industrial application platform.
Recent announcements highlight collaborations between Seeq and Honeywell, Seeq and Inductive Automation, Seeq and Schneider Electric. The newcomer is proving invaluable in getting...
Hilscher North America, Cirrus Link Solutions and Inductive Automation form an agreement to link industrial automation networking, MQTT middleware, and SCADA technologies to simplify...
From new collaborative specifications to messaging middleware, industry groups and technology suppliers are scrambling to design a seamless way to integrate the Industrial Internet...
The automation industry is evolving and gaining tremendous value from the Industrial Internet of Things, laying the groundwork for the next era in smart manufacturing.
Inductive Automation rolled out a new version of its HMI/SCADA system that leverages a partnership with Cirrus Link to bring a new approach of decoupling devices from applications...
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Driven by interest in the Internet of Things, the spotlight on MQTT and the possibilities it holds for simplifying and optimizing industrial networking communications is intensifying...
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Efficiency strategies from oil and gas producers are using nimble SCADA platforms and communication technologies to control remote oil wells and drive maintenance costs down.
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Inductive Automation rolls out a new version of Ignition software with enhanced reporting and enterprise administrative tools. Plus, the company charts a course to further support...
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At its second annual user group conference, Inductive Automation explains the need to rethink your SCADA and MES applications to future proof your production operations and your...
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Southern California-based Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) recently upgraded five water treatment plants and 80 satellite sites with new SCADA software that offers out-...
There is a truism that large companies cannot innovate. When Invensys introduced InFusion, though, then Wonderware CEO Mike Bradley pointed me to Geoffrey Moore's book, "Dealing...
