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Let’s Celebrate Inductive Automation’s Top Content Of 2024 David Dudley Tue, 12/10/2024 - 08:40
Ah, December. It’s that special time when we celebrate family, friends, holidays — and the hottest content of the past year. Call us content geeks if you want (we plead guilty), but we love to look back and see which videos, events, articles, and social media posts resonated most strongly with our ever-growing Ignition community.
Connecting Dots: Ignition And The Automation Pyramid Prasad Tarapure Wed, 03/06/2024 - 09:12
By visually representing the different levels as an Automation Pyramid, also called the Purdue Model or ISA 95, and describing how the Ignition software platform integrates across all its levels, this post aims to showcase how devices of any brand or type can work together harmoniously — whether you're dealing with field-level devices, controlling devices, monitoring tools, planning systems, or management software.
12 Batch Implementation Design Considerations John Parraga Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:10
The best practices dictated by standards such as ISA 88 and ISA 95 provide a great guideline or starting point, but these standards do not prescribe how to implement the details of a solution. Therefore, the following is intended to highlight some of the considerations for a system design.
The Benefits of Integrating Your MES System With SCADA Dante Augello Tue, 07/05/2022 - 09:43
Connecting layers of the manufacturing process is a crucial step in building a more effective operation and automation system. SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), MES (manufacturing execution system), and ERP (enterprise resource planning) are three of the most important levels of the manufacturing process.
You’ve Tried a Mortgage Calculator. Now Try a Plant Efficiency ROI Calculator. Ryan Crownover Wed, 03/09/2022 - 08:13
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) matters when looking to improve plant efficiency, and this built-in Ignition solution can track it for you.
A Better, Faster OEE Solution to Enable Your Continuous Improvement Journey Sam Russem Thu, 01/06/2022 - 10:55
Grantek has assembled a downtime solution for OEE improvement to expedite the delivery of performance-monitoring OEE solutions on Ignition.