n this latest Design Like a Pro webinar from Inductive Automation, system-architecture expert Travis Cox will present concepts to help you build a solid framework for a future-proof, enterprise-wide system from the plant up. In this webinar, learn more about: • Best practices for scalability, reliability, and security at the plant level • Increasing data access by decoupling systems from devices • Integration with tools for business intelligence, machine learning, ERP, and more • Enterprise analysis and management • Developing standards across the enterprise • Expanding your system while keeping costs down

2. Moderator
Don Pearson
Chief Strategy Officer
Inductive Automation

3. Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to Ignition
• Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
• Use Open Standards
• Use Open Architecture
• Results of a Completed Enterprise Architecture
• Software That Scales to the Enterprise
• Q&A

4. About Inductive Automation
• Founded in 2003
• HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT software
• Installed in 100+ countries
• Over 1,500 integrators
• Used by 44% of Fortune 100 companies
Learn more at: inductiveautomation.com/about

5. Used by Major Companies Worldwide

6. Ignition: Industrial Application Platform
One Universal Platform for SCADA, MES & IIoT:
• Unlimited licensing model
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Based on IT-standard technologies
• Scalable server-client architecture
• Web-managed
• Web-launched on desktop or mobile
• Modular configurability
• Rapid development and deployment

7. Presenter
Travis Cox
Co-Director of Sales Engineering,
Inductive Automation

8. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
Current situation at most companies:
• Each plant has different data, software, budgets, etc.
• No real way to get data back to the corporate level

9. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
Growing demand for data at the corporate level:
• Inspired by Industry 4.0 & IIoT
• Desire to see data and analyze it centrally
• Largely driven from the top down

10. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
• How do we get from the current landscape of different
plants to the promise of turning data into real information,
analytics, and central administration?
• How do we go about getting data into a common format?
• How will we manage this new architecture?
• How will we handle increased quantities of incoming data?
• How can we scale this?
• And many other questions …

11. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
• Need a different approach and a different architecture
• Need ability to deliver information from sites up to corporate in an
accurate, standardized, efficient & secure fashion

12. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
Paradox: The demand for enterprise
architectures is coming from the top down
but it needs to be built from the bottom
up.

13. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
• Shift thinking: don’t think of plants as
islands, but as parts of a larger
corporate system.
• Ask what we need to do at the plant
level to support the enterprise.

14. Stop Thinking ‘Plant,’ Start Thinking ‘Enterprise’
Leverage best practices for security at the plant level:
• Data should be encrypted when shared across sites
• Keep PLCs behind a secure layer
• No more air gaps between OT and IT
• Get data back to the business securely in an open format
while not compromising operations

15. Use Open Standards
One of the major components of getting to
a system with central visualization and
administration is the open-architecture &
open-standards approach

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17. Use Open Standards
SOAP REST

18. Use Open Standards
• Standardize your data models
• Translate data at the plant level, then send
it up, instead of translating it at the top

19. Use Open Standards
• Open, standard & supported protocols
allow plants to be the single source of
truth of their data.
• Everyone uses the same data for making
business decisions

20. Use Open Architectures
• Need to think about how to set up our systems to be ready
for the increased amount of data
• Need to think about how we can enable the enterprise
without stifling innovation at the plants
• Decouple applications from devices to address these
issues.

21. Use Open Architectures
Coupled vs. decoupled architectures:

22. Use Open Architectures
• Poll-response protocols stifle innovation and are very
difficult to scale
• Move to publish-subscribe protocols to decouple
applications from devices and free up your data

23. Use Open Architectures

24. Use Open Architectures
• Plug-and-play functionality is a major benefit of open
architectures
• Add devices & sensors and they just work – don’t have to
configure them in SCADA or other applications

25. Use Open Architectures
• Choose a protocol that has security and stateful
awareness (such as MQTT or OPC UA).
• Provide the data that the business is asking for, in a
standardized way, without compromising SCADA &
operations.

26. Use Open Architectures
• Standards are also important for “brownfield” companies
• Need to standardize data & data models to build an
enterprise solution on what’s already there

27. Use Open Architectures
Integrate with other tools:
• Business intelligence
• Machine Learning (Microsoft Azure)
• Apache NiFi and Kafka
• Hadoop
• IBM Watson IoT
• Ignition Edge
• Storm
• Amazon IoT
• ERP
• CMMS

28. Results of Completed Enterprise Architecture
• Centralized administration, management of projects &
templates, automated recovery, deploy applications,
project sync & updates, etc.
• See data from all plants, check on system health
• Greater information and intelligence
• More speed and agility

29. Results of Completed Enterprise Architecture
Think about it: What would the ROI be if you could get all of
the data from the locations into a standard format centrally
and start leveraging new tools?

30. Software That Scales to the Enterprise
• Does it support open data formats?
• Can you deploy it effectively at multiple sites?
• Can it connect to, and leverage, the cloud?
• Does the licensing limit your ability to scale?

31. Software That Scales to the Enterprise
• You can build enterprise architectures with Ignition software &
technologies like MQTT
• Gateway Network unlocks architectural possibilities, allows
multiple Ignition Gateways to share large amounts of
information

32. Software That Scales to the Enterprise
Ignition Remote MQTT Architecture

33. Software That Scales to the Enterprise
• Ignition’s unlimited licensing
minimizes the costs of growth
& future-proofing
• Ignition’s licensing, technology,
and business model are all in
line with enterprise thinking

34. Recap of Essential Steps to Enterprise Architecture
• Build your enterprise architecture from the plant-level up.
• Deliver plant data to the corporate level in an automated,
standardized, secure manner.
• Choose open standards and standardize your data format.
• Decouple devices from applications using publish-subscribe
protocols.
• Measure necessary expenses against the huge potential ROI of a
working enterprise system.
• Integrate innovative tools for intelligence, analysis, IIoT & more.
• Use software that is conducive to enterprise architectures.

35. Ignition by Inductive Automation
Download at inductiveautomation.com and try it out today!

36. Design Like a Pro Series
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