As part of the keynote presentation at the 2021 virtual Ignition Community Conference, Don Pearson, vice president of sales and marketing at Inductive Automation, explained how the company’s Ignition platform can help companies address the opportunities presented by IT/OT (operations technology) convergence, Internet of Things, smart manufacturing, and digital transformation trends.
“If you take the Ignition platform and plop it right in the middle of all these challenges in the enterprise, you have an industrial automation platform that can connect the entire enterprise,” he said. “I don't care if you’re talking about thousands of PLCs and RTUs and tags across an enterprise spread across the entire globe—the ability to have a platform that can bring the entire enterprise together from the center to the cloud and back again and give you the feedback loop, the dashboards, the data, and the real time and historical analysis you need—that is hugely powerful and it's vital to a successful digital transformation.”