Turn Any Panel PC Into an Ignition HMI

Presenters
Kent Melville
Sales Engineering Manager
Inductive Automation
Don Pearson
Chief Strategy Officer
Inductive Automation

Guest Presenter
Ross Sheffler
Control System Integrator
Vertech

Agenda
• HMIs
• Ignition HMIs
• Ignition Edge Panel &
Ignition Onboard
• Integrator Case Studies
• Audience Q&A

Ignition by Inductive Automation
The Unlimited Platform for SCADA and So Much More
• Connect, Design, Deploy Without Limits:
○ One central hub for everything on the plant floor
○ Create any kind of industrial application
○ Web-deploy clients to desktops, industrial displays &
mobile devices
• Unlimited licensing
• Industrial-strength security and stability
• Trusted by thousands of companies worldwide

A Different Kind of HMI Webinar
● We’ve done many webinars about designing HMIs with
Ignition software.
● Today, we’re going to talk about creating HMI machine
solutions with Ignition software and your choice of hardware.

What is an HMI?
● Human-Machine Interface: A user interface that
connects a person to a machine, system, or
device.
● In industrial settings, HMIs are used to:
○ Visually display data (including graphs, charts,
buttons, dashboards, etc.)
○ Track production time, trends & tags
○ Oversee KPIs
○ Monitor machine I/O
○ View & manage alarms
○ And more
● Unlike SCADA, HMIs don’t collect and record
information or connect to databases.

What is an HMI?
● Mainly used by operators, engineers, system
integrators
● Can be on the plant floor, on mobile or remote
devices, in the cloud, or the edge of the network
● Made up of hardware and software (HMI
software often comes with the hardware)
● HMI software can be installed on any of the
following hardware:
○ Built-in or embedded screens on machines
○ Graphic terminals
○ Panel-mount displays
○ Regular PCs
○ Mobile devices and wearables

HMI Hardware in the Supply Chain
● Many industrial companies rely on proprietary
hardware such as Allen-Bradley Panel Views for
HMIs.
● This locks many companies into expensive
products from one vendor.
● Recent supply-chain problems are causing long
lead times, making it hard to get traditional HMI
hardware in a timely manner.
● With microchip shortages, limited warehouse
space, and backed-up shipping containers,
these supply-chain issues are unlikely to
change in the near future.

Ignition Edge Panel
Ignition Edge Panel is a standalone HMI software
product.
● Rapidly build local HMIs for field devices and
industrial HMIs
○ Vision or Perspective visualization modules
○ Ignition Designer included
● See real-time machine status
● Control your processes (stop and start)
● One-way alarm notification
● Basic trending
● Local-client fallback
● OPC UA connectivity
● Cross-platform

What is an Ignition HMI?
Options:
● Install Ignition Edge Panel onto an existing panel PC.
● Buy a Panel PC or an industrial PC and install Ignition Edge Panel onto
it.
● Buy an Ignition Onboard panel PC with Ignition Edge Panel pre-loaded
and pre-licensed.

Ignition Onboard
Find Panel PCs with Ignition Edge
Panel pre-loaded and pre-
licensed
Browse Onboard listings at:
https://inductiveautomation.com/o
nboard#panel-pc-section-anchor

Ignition Edge Panel HMI Advantages
● Doesn’t require a specific piece of hardware;
choose whatever hardware you need
● Replace failed HMIs more quickly and
affordably
● Development environment is included, not
licensed separately
● Offers parallel functionality as data collection
software
● Mix and match Ignition Edge Panel with other
Ignition Edge products

Mix & Match With Other Ignition Edge Products

Case Study: Landfill Applications
● Two projects: Landfill applications
● Both projects collecting data from multiple
assets and displaying them from a single
touchscreen so operators can control devices to
a single point.
● Uses Edge Panel for local site control.

● Also collects and pushes data to an Enterprise
Ignition system that collects and displays data
for the entire organization.
● Having local command and control of a site is
required even when communication outages
occur with the Enterprise system.
● Edge Panel enabled reuse of many of the same
views developed for the Enterprise system.

Case Study: Upstate NY
● Brock Solutions is leading a multi-
year program to uplift a water
SCADA system
• Using Ignition SCADA to deliver a
sustainable, modern solution
• Addressing critical obsolescence and
cyber security concerns
• Upgrading PLC hardware, Drives, and
implementing new sensing hardware
● Extensively leveraging Ignition’s
edge computing capabilities
60+ PLCS
34 Edge-Enabled Sites
40+ Sites

Case Study: Upstate NY
Ignition Edge
● 45 Sites utilize Ignition Edge Panel
● Found at edge of the network, and
communicate back to centralized
server via MQTT
• Device control
• Operator alarm
● Sites are critical, so need to have local
control if network with central fails
• More cost-efficient than having full-blown
Ignition at each of the sites
● Was able to grab PC panels off the
shelf from Advantech

Solutions to Keep You Running
Download Ignition Edge at:
inductiveautomation.com
Browse Ignition Onboard Panel PCs with Ignition
Edge Panel pre-loaded and pre-licensed at:
inductiveautomation.com/onboard

International Distributors
Australia iControls Pty Ltd. www.icontrols.com.au
Brazil FG Automação Industrial www.fgltda.com.br
Central America NV Tecnologías S.A. www.nvtecnologias.com
France AXONE-iO www.axone-io.com
Italy EFA Automazione S.p.A www.efa.it
Norway Autic System AS www.autic.no
South Africa Element8 https://element8.co.za/
Switzerland MPI Technologies https://mpi.ch/
Contact International Distribution Manager Annie Wise at: awise@inductiveautomation.com

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