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Energy Monitoring for Manufacturers Gets Easier
In a session on the benefits of energy monitoring at Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference 2024, Becca Gillespie, managing director of Energy Systems Network’s Energy Insights, noted how the savings from energy monitoring can provide critical justification for needed automation investments. For example, one manufacturer Gillespie worked with was able to save 20% on their energy bill by learning how much the installation of VFDs (variable frequency drives) would save them. She explained that this manufacturer installed VFDs on all the fans in their facility to optimize the speed at which they ran instead of always running at full speed.
Improve your industrial operations with cloud-based SCADA systems
There are several advantages of cloud-based SCADA systems, such as reducing the need for installing and maintaining expensive server hardware and software on premises and making your industrial data available wherever and whenever you need it. Cloud-based SCADA systems are increasingly important in IIoT and Industry 4.0 because they provide the automation, data collection, analysis, analytics, machine learning, and connectivity necessary to improve processes and operations. With cloud-based SCADA systems, customers have easier access to the data and can use cloud services to manage and analyze the data at scale.
Ignition is an integrated Software Platform for SCADA systems by Inductive Automation. The Inductive Automation partner solution deploys Ignition, a solution by AWS Partner Inductive Automation, to the AWS Cloud. The partner solution enhances availability, performance, observability, and resilience of SCADA applications. It provides both standalone and cluster deployment options of Ignition on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. Both options are designed to be secure and highly available, configured with best practices for security, network gateway connections, and database connectivity.