ILS Wins Inductive Automation’s Gold Ignition Firebrand Award At ICC 2015

Solution Awarded Ignition Firebrand Award

Batch Expert+, a traditional SCADA built on the Inductive Automation framework, extends Ignition to include:

• A Diagnostic Toolkit That Simplifies Troubleshooting
  • Intelligent Recommendations: Recommendations are calculated for the setpoints that control the product characteristics. They are then fed into a recommendation engine that considers all of the active diagnoses and attempts to resolve the most important problems first.
• The SFC+ Toolkit Extends Inductive Automation’s SFC Module
  • Automation: Provides automated startup, shutdown, and grade change procedures in a complex continuous process environment.
  • ISA S88: Implements many of the ISA S88 guidelines for batch recipe control.
  • Adds Specialized Advanced Blocks to the SFC Module: These blocks are useful for reviewing a spreadsheet of timed setpoint changes; confirming that all of the necessary controllers are in an appropriate mode to accept setpoint writes; and monitoring the instrument value associated with a setpoint to make sure that the control action was effective.
  • Expands the use of chart data into the broader notion of recipe data.
  • Provides important capabilities to troubleshoot, test, and develop recipes.
  • Enables development and testing to be performed on the production system without affecting the actual production facility.

For more details about this Firebrand Award, visit Inductive Automation’s ICC 2015 page.