Ignition SCADA

A practical Ignition SCADA guide for Australian food and beverage manufacturers, written from an integrator's delivery experience: when Ignition is and is not the right fit, Perspective vs Vision, architecture, CIP and batch, OT security, and buying and supporting Ignition in Australia.

A balanced SCADA platform comparison for Australian manufacturers: Ignition, Rockwell FactoryTalk and AVEVA (Wonderware, System Platform, Plant SCADA and Citect), covering licensing, architecture, IIoT, redundancy and where each platform fits.

An engineer's guide to SCADA design for Australian food and beverage plants: ISA-95 architecture, ISA-101 HMI, ISA-18.2 and EEMUA 191 alarm management, historians, redundancy, OPC UA, edge and IIoT, and FSANZ recall record-keeping.

How MES and SCADA work together in Australian food plants: the ISA-95 functional levels, the MESA model, B2MML data exchange, the SCADA-to-MES boundary, OEE and genealogy, ERP integration, and an illustrative Level 2 to Level 3 data mapping.

Most Australian manufacturing sites have more data than they can act on. This guide explains where plant data silos form, how a unified namespace, MQTT Sparkplug B and OPC UA break them down, and what a single source of truth aligned to ISA-95 actually looks like.

OEE is useful but routinely over-trusted. This guide covers what OEE leaves out by design, where it distorts on multi-SKU Australian food and beverage lines, why cross-line comparisons fail, and the one limitation that is actually fixable: the signal layer between the machine and the dashboard.

CIP is one of the largest controllable cost centres in a food or beverage plant. This article covers the four areas where CIP automation investment pays back: cycle optimisation for trade waste and chemical cost, digital audit records, queueing for equipment availability, and coverage verification to prevent silent failures.