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Ignition Reviews & Product Details

Ignition is a universal industrial automation software platform that gives organizations a single environment to connect, design, build, and deploy industrial applications at enterprise scale. It serves as the central hub for your operational technology, bringing together real-time data from programmable logic controllers, databases, IoT devices, and enterprise systems into a unified system of record. With unlimited tags, devices, screens, and connections under one flat server license, Ignition enables rapid development of SCADA, HMI, MES, IIoT, and custom automation solutions while reducing cost and complexity. Its cross-platform architecture is built on open standards like SQL, Python, OPC UA, and MQTT, and supports web-based deployment to desktops and mobile devices anywhere in your enterprise. Ignition bridges the gap between plant floor control and enterprise IT, making it easier to scale, integrate, visualize, and act on data across operations.

Seller

Inductive Automation

Discussions

Ignition Community

Languages Supported

German, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

Overview by

Brian Wallace

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Ignition by Inductive Automation provides flexible alarm management with real-time monitoring, configurable alarm workflows, and support for multiple notification channels including email, SMS, and voice. Alarms can be acknowledged bi-directionally, prioritized, escalated, or temporarily shelved,...

Ignition by Inductive Automation offers comprehensive, flexible alarm management through real-time monitoring, customizable pipelines, and multi-channel notifications (email, SMS, voice). It enables two-way acknowledgment, alarm escalation, shelving, and prioritization, integrated directly with t...

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Nick D.

Control Systems Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/20/2024

"Why use anything else"

5/5

What do you like best about Ignition?

The templating and UDT structure is very user friendly and connecting to the controller is a snap with a few quick steps. Inductive University provides a ton of helpful information and the fact that you can use the full functional software to test is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ignition?

The company seems to be pushing their Perspective module more and more which while it has useful features, unless you're building plant controls for all sorts of different screen sizes it's not as user friendly as the Vision platform they started with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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falgun a.

Software engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/8/2020

"A world class light weight HMI"

5/5

What do you like best about Ignition?

The Ignition scada has a variety of protocols selection to communicate with devices manufactured all over the world.

The user interface is very good.

Also, it is very easy for a fresher engineer to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ignition?

from the pricing side, the "IGNITION Perspective" license is very much costly.

otherwise from technical side, so far so good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nick D.

Systems Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/12/2021

"Ignition works with everything"

5/5

What do you like best about Ignition?

The connection to all various PLC brands and connections to databases is simple and straightforward. Historical data recording is as easy as checking a box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ignition?

The newer Perspective module can be cumbersome to work with, especially around formatting for resizable and different screen types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ignition:

The product support staff is excellent at addressing your questions and the Inductive University and user manual has a wealth of easy to access information to guide you through most tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ignition solving and how is that benefiting you?

Human Machine Interface (HMI) design and deployment and historical trending of information. The access to information has never been easier or more effective than with Ingition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Tarig I.

SCADA Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/4/2021

"Inductive Automation's Ignition Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Ignition?

A modular SCADA gateway system that allows integrating different protocols (OPC, MQQT, Modbus, gateway connections to name a few) into one uniform system and aggregate data via Ignition provided component as well as scripting and python coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ignition?

Ran into some issues, however they were mostly 3rd party related. Though, 3rd party as well as Ignition's support was very helpful to provide custom solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ignition:

Highly recommended. With its modular licensing it is very cost-effective tailored to specific project needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ignition solving and how is that benefiting you?

operator HMI displays for real-time monitoring, alarming with automated email notification, historical data management, AWS cloud injection and scheduled automatic reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/17/2021

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"Ignition just works"

5/5

What do you like best about Ignition?

Ignition does a really good job as a connected application. It has everything to build a solid foundation for a good digital shopfloor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ignition?

I don't really have allot to dislike about Ignition. Some minor things could be improved, but I haven't seen other platforms being better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.