Fixing SCADA: How Ignition Saves Money
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The document presents an overview of Ignition, an industrial application platform for SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT, emphasizing its advantages over traditional SCADA systems that include unlimited licensing, cross-platform compatibility, and affordability. It addresses major pain points in SCADA such as high licensing costs, inefficiency, and expensive training while showcasing Ignition's solutions like free trials, included designers, reasonable support contracts, and free online training. The content highlights a panel discussion involving industry experts who share insights on how Ignition alleviates these SCADA challenges for users.
Fixing SCADA: How Ignition Saves Money
- 2. Moderator Don Pearson Chief Strategy Officer, Inductive Automation
- 3. Agenda • Introduction to Ignition • Old SCADA vs. The New SCADA • Major Pain Point Areas: - SCADA Licensing - Design and Development - Support and Training • Q&A
- 4. About Inductive Automation • Founded in 2003 • HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT software • Installed in 100+ countries • Over 1,600 integrators • Used by 46% of Fortune 100 companies Learn more at: inductiveautomation.com/about
- 5. Used By Industries Worldwide
- 6. Ignition: Industrial Application Platform One Universal Platform for HMI/SCADA, MES & IIoT: • Unlimited licensing model • Cross-platform compatibility • Based on IT-standard technologies • Scalable server-client architecture • Web-based & web-managed • Web-launched on desktop or mobile • Modular configurability • Rapid development & deployment
- 7. Panelists Chris McLaughlin SCADA & MES Specialist, Vertech Steve Perry Analyst, IT Team, Tyson Foods Allen Rogers Project Manager, SKM Inc.
- 8. Co-Presenter Kent Melville Sales Engineer, Inductive Automation
- 9. The Purpose of SCADA • Industrial organizations use Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to: ◦ Maintain efficiency & mitigate downtime ◦ Control industrial processes (local or remote) ◦ Monitor, gather, and process real-time data ◦ Interact with devices through HMI software ◦ Record events into a log file
- 10. The Problem with SCADA SCADA pain points: • Time: 90’s-based, not IT-friendly, too slow & inefficient for modern manufacturing • Money: clients & designers sold separately, licensed by the seat, high support fees, etc. • Workability: not cross-platform, no relational-database support, limited development capabilities, etc.
- 11. The New SCADA, Built with Affordability in Mind • Our founder worked as a system integrator for 25 years. • Dealing with expensive SCADA licensing and other pain points inspired him to build a better solution – which led to the development of Ignition. • Ignition is The New SCADA that replaces traditional SCADA. Inductive Automation Founder, President & CEO Steve Hechtman
- 12. The Four Pillars
- 13. New Licensing
- 14. Time Is Money In the previous “Fixing SCADA” webinar, we discussed how Ignition saves time by letting you: • Get projects going quickly with full-version download, 3-min. installation & easy activation anytime • Shorten development time with great design features • Deploy with one click, make instant updates & keep clients online • Add functionality without shutting down, via hot-pluggable modules • Have real-time access to data – and more!
- 15. SCADA Licensing Pain Points: • Runtime clients are sold and installed separately, by the seat. • Prices skyrocket when you add runtime clients and tags. • It’s expensive beyond any practical use.
- 16. SCADA Licensing Pain Points: • Runtime clients are sold and installed separately, by the seat. • Prices skyrocket when you add runtime clients and tags. • It’s expensive beyond any practical use. Solution: Ignition comes with unlimited clients and tags, and is affordably licensed by the server.
- 17. SCADA Licensing Panel discussion: How has Ignition helped ease the pain of SCADA software licensing for you or your customers – through unlimited tags and clients, server-based licensing, or in some other way?
- 18. Design and Development Pain Point: You have to buy before you develop; no unlimited-time trial available.
- 19. Design and Development Pain Point: You have to buy before you develop; no unlimited-time trial available. Solution: Download the full version of Ignition for free and refresh the trial as long as you want.
- 20. Design and Development Pain Point: Designers are sold and installed separately, by the seat.
- 21. Design and Development Pain Point: Designers are sold and installed separately, by the seat. Solution: Designer application included out of the box. Launch any number of additional designers for free and work concurrently.
- 22. Ignition Demo: Design and Development
- 23. Design and Development Panel discussion: How has Ignition helped you or your customers save money in the development process – through the free trial, included Designer, concurrent development, or in some other way?
- 24. Support and Training Pain Point: Extremely high support fees – and integrators get charged for tech support.
- 25. Support and Training Pain Point: Extremely high support fees – and integrators get charged for tech support. Solution: IA Support contracts are reasonably priced & include 90 days of free phone support. Plus, free tech support for integrators – after all, they sell the product!
- 26. Support and Training Pain Point: Training is expensive and inconvenient – especially for an entire team or large group.
- 27. Support and Training Pain Point: Training is expensive and inconvenient – especially for an entire team or large group. Solution: Free online Ignition training through Inductive University.
- 28. Ignition Demo: Support and Training
- 29. Support and Training Panel Discussion: What are some ways that Ignition has helped you save on support and training, and what kind of a difference does that make for you or your customers?
- 30. Concluding Remarks Panel discussion: What are your closing thoughts about how Ignition helps save money, time, or relieves any other SCADA pain points?
- 31. Recap – How Ignition Saves Money Ignition saves money for industrial organizations in many ways: • Unlimited tags and clients • Server-based licensing • Free, unlimited-time trial • Out-of-the-box Designer, free additional designers & concurrent development • Reasonable support contracts, free support for integrators • Free online training • And more
- 34. Sept. 17-19, 2018 Early-bird tickets on sale now at: icc.inductiveautomation.com
- 35. Questions & Comments Jim Meisler x227 Vannessa Garcia x231 Vivian Mudge x253 Account Executives: Myron Hoertling x224 Shane Miller x218 Ramin Rofagha x251 Maria Chinappi x264 Lester Ares x214 Call us at: 800-266-7798 Panelists: Steve Perry Stephen.Perry@tyson.com Chris McLaughlin cmclaughlin@vertech.com Allen Rogers arogers@skmeng.com Director of Sales: Melanie Hottman x247 Kristen Azure x260