Ignition is the only platform that offers unlimited licensing, highly scalable architectures, and endless possibilities for creating tailored solutions in the manufacturing industry. From automotive plants to electronics assembly and heavy machinery production, leading manufacturers trust Ignition to reduce operational costs, improve quality control, maximize uptime, and drive efficiency across the entire production process.

Ignition Gateways deployed in manufacturing operations worldwide

of Fortune 500 manufacturers use Ignition

countries rely on Ignition for real-time manufacturing monitoring

CertainTeed, a division of Saint-Gobain North America, has adopted Ignition along with many core Sepasoft modules to deploy a custom MES solution. This system is currently being utilized by 15+ plants with many more to come. Find out how Ignition helped make this expansive architecture possible.

- Tarek Rahman

CertainTeed

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The process of iron production may date back to the late 1700s, but the business of running a foundry has changed dramatically since the first Industrial...

Saint-Gobain Glass mobilized 2Gi Technologie and Plantformance to create and deploy Ignition applications in several countries, within a hybrid architecture...

Most traditional SCADA systems in the manufacturing industry are built on restrictive, license-based models, requiring separate licenses for each site, client, and project. With Ignition’s unlimited licensing model and server-based architecture, companies can expand operations seamlessly without per-client fees, connect unlimited production lines and facilities, and eliminate hidden costs associated with legacy SCADA systems.

Manufacturers require seamless IT & OT integration. Ignition bridges the gap with industry-standard technologies like SQL, Python, OPC UA, and MQTT, enabling faster decision-making with real-time data visibility, a single source of truth across production assets, and efficient collaboration between plant-floor teams and enterprise systems.

Legacy SCADA systems are typically built to be platform-dependent, meaning they can only run on a specific operating system. Ignition clients are totally cross-platform: They run on Windows, Linux, or containers like Docker, and support as-code deployment methods. 

With UDTs (User Defined Types) for data and templates for visuals, Ignition provides many rapid development strategies so that power, cooling, and IT assets can be defined once across an entire project. UDT instances can be automatically initialized in seconds and UDT definitions can be shared across deployments or pushed down from enterprise to site using strategies such as project inheritance and the Enterprise Administration Module. Support for source control tools like Git allows for library standardization between teams and regions. 

Ignition’s Perspective Module allows manufacturing professionals to monitor and control critical assets from any device, anywhere. Users can access SCADA dashboards from mobile, tablets, or laptops, monitor production lines and assembly systems, and receive real-time alerts and maintenance notifications.

With cyber threats targeting industrial control systems (ICS) and SCADA networks, Ignition is designed with enterprise-grade security, including end-to-end encryption (TLS, SSL) for secure data transfers, role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA), and audit logging and anomaly detection for compliance with industry cybersecurity frameworks.

Ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks and industry-specific quality control standards is critical in manufacturing. Ignition provides a secure, scalable, and auditable platform that helps manufacturers comply with industry regulations while maintaining efficient, real-time operations.

This simulated Prepared Foods Line project showcases real-time process monitoring and production metrics. The project highlights detailed equipment statuses, OEE metrics, process performance, and historical trends. It includes dashboards for tracking production yields, machine performance, and system diagnostics.

To use this demo as a template for your next project, get the free Ignition Exchange resource here.

This simulated Automotive Production Line project showcases SCADA features, dynamic animations, and recipe tracking in Ignition. The project highlights vehicle recipe creation, VIN tracking, and real-time progress monitoring across individual production cells.

This guide addresses best practices for using Ignition and working with software vendors in a CIP-compliant way, with recommendations based on specific CIP standards.

This resource is meant as a Perspective frontend for existing OEE data. There is a UDT Definition with Expression tags for Availability, Performance, and Quality to be set up by the user, and an OEE tag that calculates the OEE by multiplying those values together. 

The CMMS application enables users to efficiently track inventory, manage multiple sites, monitor equipment, and generate work orders.

Learn how Ignition ensures resiliency, data integrity, and smoother operations for your data center.

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