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icc | 2019 Community Session  |  Food and Beverage

Achieving Business Value with Enterprise Deployments

Two years ago, Inductive Automation introduced the Enterprise Integrator program in response to the growing demand from large, complex global organizations to deploy the Ignition platform across multiple sites for multiple purposes. Inductive defines Enterprise Integrators as “very large integrators (250+ engineers) with a global presence and a reputation for executing large corporate initiatives across multiple sites simultaneously. Such integration firms tend to have long-term relationships with their clients.” Brock Solutions, the first integrator to achieve this status, will share their experiences working with enterprise clients leveraging the Ignition platform to achieve measurable business value – beyond HMI and SCADA.

59 min video

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icc | 2019 Panel  |  Agriculture

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.

62 min video

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customer project Transportation

Smart Technology for Paris Tramway

The Smart Mobility Platform (SMP), built with Ignition, is a project commissioned two years ago by the Products and New Technologies Department of Bouygues Energies & Services (BYES). The aim of this project is to provide a software solution empowered and customized for the Smart Mobility sector:

6 min video

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customer project Transportation

New Baggage-Handling System at Large International Airport

Brock Solutions worked with the Dublin Airport in Dublin, Ireland, to replace the airport’s baggage handling system in Terminal 2. Brock was able to complete this upgrade on schedule and on budget. Brock believes this is the largest Ignition airport baggage handling system in the world. The airport has been so pleased with the project, it’s planning to work with Brock to add more solutions built on the Ignition platform.

7 min video

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Firebrand Awards Panel (2018) Adam Morales Mon, 10/01/2018 - 00:00

At the end of each conference, the Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to the most outstanding real-world Ignition projects featured in our yearly Discovery Gallery project showcase. Join us to celebrate the creative spirit of the Ignition community as we honor this year’s Firebrand Award winners and hear their stories of struggle, innovation, and triumph in a fun and informative panel discussion led by Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer, Don Pearson.

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Aerospace
Automotive
Construction Materials
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Data Center
Energy
Food and Beverage
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Oil and Gas
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Transportation
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Don Pearson

Chief Strategy Officer

Inductive Automation

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Phillip Bourner

Systems Engineer

Roeslein & Associates, Inc.

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Leah Ackerman

Engineer

Tamaki Controls

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John Parraga

Process Solutions Specialist

ECS Solutions

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Sam Vandiver

Vice President, Automation

Brown Engineers, LLC

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Pablo Di Benedetto

Systems Integration Project Leader

AUTEX Open Automation

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ICC Year
2018.00
Fueling Planes at America’s Eighth-Largest Airport Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 09/01/2018 - 01:35

Project Scope

  • More than 2,000 tags
  • Historical logging on most tags
  • Approx. 50 screens

Project Overview

Trimax Systems did this project for George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. This is the eighth-largest airport in the United States. At George Bush Intercontinental, 1.2 million gallons of jet fuel are pumped into planes every day.

The Ignition project controls the entire fuel farm at the airport. The project was designed to acquire highly accurate SCADA information from the fuel farm and provide an HMI that is operator friendly. This allows the operator to easily identify and correct any issues that arise on the fuel storage and delivery system.

Multiple problems existed on the project from the antiquated PLCs, the multimode fiber communications and an outdated HMI/SCADA system. Information was being lost, not stored in history, or not trended. Reports were external to the SCADA system, and the information was being put in manually.

The HMI/SCADA was not redundant; if communications were lost or the server failed, the fuel farm operator would be blind to any critical events and data loss because of the failure.

Trimax uses Ignition’s redundancy capabilities for the fuel farm HMI/SCADA system and redundant PLCs to ensure minimal downtime. Ignition allows the connection of not only the latest PLCs, but older ones as well.

Ignition was used for the ease with which devices can be connected and for its third-party capabilities. The airport uses Kepware for the OPC server and the connection between Kepware and Ignition has worked flawlessly.

Reports were designed to automatically input data and print the reports on a daily schedule. Using Ignition’s reporting capabilities, the manpower once used for manually inserting the data can now be used for more productive projects.

Designing global templates and scripts in Ignition allows Trimax the ability to use the templates and scripts on other projects as well as standardizing the overall appearance of our projects.

The cost of the complete Ignition system is less than other HMI/SCADA systems, giving Trimax a competitive edge over its competitors.

The fuel farm and fuel delivery system were improved in many ways. The replacement of multimode fiber with single mode, the replacement of outdated PLCs, the use of the Ignition redundant system, automated reporting, and no data loss allows the customer to operate much more efficiently.

Industry
Aerospace
Transportation
Integrator Description
Trimax was established in 1983. The goal then and today remains the same: designing custom control solutions. By establishing a unique relationship with clients which focuses on a thorough understanding of the process and requirements, Trimax believes that not only is it necessary to be experts in controls, but also experts in the industries it serves. Those industries include fuel delivery, oil & gas, water/wastewater, food & beverage, and material handling.
<p><strong>Websites:</strong> <a href="http://www.trimaxsystems.com" target="_blank">www.trimaxsystems.com</a> </p>
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icc | 2017 Panel  |  Aerospace

Integrator Panel: Positioning Your Integration Business for Success

At this panel discussion, some of the leading system integrators in the Ignition community will talk about many aspects of success for integrators today, including the Integrator Program, strategies for business growth, technology trends, and how Ignition helps transform challenges into opportunities.

64 min video

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icc | 2017 Community Session  |  Food and Beverage

The Enterprise Transformation Journey: How Reynolds American Created a World-Class Operation

Projects are hard – transformation takes courage! Few industries face the challenges that the tobacco industry faces. The success Reynolds American achieved over the past 10 years is truly a remarkable story. Join Reynolds American and their integrator Brock Solutions as they tell the story of leading the transformation of the industry and their organization — leveraging leading-edge technology, driving measurable business value, and overcoming barriers that few thought possible to conquer. And the journey is far from over as Ignition is blazing new trails to creating a digitally connected enterprise.

63 min video

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icc | 2017 Community Session  |  Automotive

Firebrand Awards ICC 2017

At the conclusion of the conference, Ignition Firebrand Awards will be given for this year's most outstanding Discover Gallery projects. The award recipients will gather for a lively and inspiring panel discussion about how their projects came about, what it took to achieve success, their future plans for Ignition, and more. Their stories could help you build your next great Ignition project!

55 min video

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customer project Transportation

SCADA and More for Eight Road Tunnels

Bouygues Energies & Services is using Ignition in several capacities as part of its project for the L2 bypass in Marseilles. Bouygues created the Centralized Technical Management (CTM) system with Ignition and Siemens PLCs. The system keeps eight road tunnels under constant surveillance along their entire length of 6.2 miles. CTM processes data from over 12,000 I/O control points and more than 120,000 tags.

8 min video

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