Ignition 8 — Perspective Announcement and Demo
It’s here… Ignition 8, Perspective, Source Control and the mobile module we’ve been waiting for!
CC Lead the Way Day 2 — Keynote Address
ICC Lead the way… the big announcement today? Ignition 8 is ready… you can view it in action by going to demo.inductiveautomation.com
AI Manufacturing and SCADA Technology Summit Day 1
Day 1 is in the books… here are some stats and info on the conference (in case you’re considering attending in the future).
AI Manufacturing and SCADA Technology Summit 2018
Intellic Integration is in Chicago, Illinois, today and tomorrow (9/12 and 13) for this year’s AI Manufacturing and SCADA Technology Summit.
Ignition and Java News
Inductive Automation made a major announcement yesterday (May 8, 2018). This comes on the heels of Oracle dropping a major announcement about their plans for supporting Java SE going forward (May 5, 2018). This is major news affecting the Ignition Community.
State of Intellic–2017 End of Year Report
It is that time of year again… we closed out Fiscal 2017 on December 31 and have spent the past few weeks finalizing our books and end of year reports. Each year, we set goals and targets in January and at the end of the year, we take stock in our achievements before we set the goals and targets for the upcoming year. We finished up our last round of meetings with the lawyers, accountants and HR just this week and now it is time to report.
EZLogix Sparkplug B Beta Testing
This weekend, I had the pleasure of beta testing EZAutomation‘s new firmware for their EZRack PLCs. This firmware is SparkPlug B compliant for MQTT (read about SparkPlug B here) in addition to supporting OPC-UA and string based MQTT publishing.
Automation Fair 2017 — Day 1 WonderLogix Will Change The Way We Program ControlLogix PLCs 10/15/17
I had a profound conversation with three men from Israel just prior to lunch. The folks at WonderLogix have developed a platform that allows developers to build complex PLC programs using a Node based GUI (think Node Red on steroids) that builds all of the ladder logic, AOI/UDT and documentation in the background while users just create and configure nodes in a GUI interface.
Automation Fair 2017 — Day 1 Cloud Based Machine Analytics for Machine Builders 10/15/2017
Rockwell has built a stack that is their IIOT integrated solution–typical to their business model, rather than build on solutions in the IOT space, RA has developed their IIOT stack as an extension of their existing architecture.
Automation Fair 2017 — The Plan
Intellic is attending Rockwell’s Automation Fair in Houston, TX. I arrived on Monday and the team joined me yesterday at the Le Meridien hotel in downtown. Over the next two days, we will attend sessions and labs, meet with product managers and enjoy fellowship with the Rockwell Automation community. My specific plan is to get an update from the product managers on RA’s plan for Industry 4.0 and IIOT. After perusing the literature, I have read no references to MQTT or the Sparkplug B specification.