Ignition Community Conference 2025 - LevelUp
Corso Systems was thrilled to be part of the Ignition Community Conference in 2025, with the theme LevelUp!
Inductive Automation took a much-needed leap by moving the conference to Sacramento this year! While the Harris Center in Folsom was great, and dinner at Inductive's offices on Wednesday night was always a blast, the community had outgrown the space several years ago. Having more space meant a lot of new faces too! Some of the Inductive folks we talked to said attendance was nearly double the usual amount, and 50% of the attendees had never been to an ICC before. We hope they stick to their guns next year and have another amazing event at the new venue!
For anyone who got one of the cool Corso Systems poker chips, wants to read more about our vast Ignition library of content, or wants to take advantage of the ICC LevelUp discount opportunity please check out our event page here.
Ignition 8.3 Release
One of the biggest events at the show was the release of Ignition 8.3! This comes with a host of amazing new features the Ignition community has been requesting for years. We'll cover the ones we are most excited about in a more detailed post later this week.
The major highlights are:
The Perspective Drawing Tool
Improved DevOps Integrations and human-readable configuration files
Ignition "Core Historian" Functionality
Siemens PLC Driver Updates
The Perspective Drawing Tool lets you edit and manage SVG files directly in the Ignition Designer, including the ability to leverage Ignition's powerful tag binding capabilities to simplify integrating SVG graphics into your Perspective projects.
Ignition has truly leveled up their game in manufacturing by enabling support for DevOps tools in Ignition. Granted, a lot of companies may never need to use these; however, for the ones that do, scaling out large-scale Ignition deployments is now as easy as setting up a text file with everything you need, running some other tools like Ansible to set everything up, and turning the deployment of dozens of gateways into a matter of a few minutes of effort rather than a few days.
Much has been said over the years about Ignition's Tag Historian Module. People who love it and get a lot of value have found it to be an amazing tool, while people who have been disrupted by Ignition complain it isn't performant enough since it relies on SQL databases. Now you get the best of both worlds. You can use the existing Tag Historian Module with no changes, or you can take advantage of the new QuestDB time series historian functionality to get the power of Ignition to connect to all of your devices on top of the speed and increased bandwidth of a time series historian. More to come on that as the functionality grows in future releases.
Another common pain point for people using Siemens PLCs in their facilities was the lack of symbolic addressing support in Ignition. In our experience with Ignition since the late 2000s, it had a sort of reverse migration from the west coast to the east coast of the US, with fairly recent adoption in the European market. Since Siemens has a much larger install base in Europe, it makes sense that Inductive was focused on supporting Allen Bradley, the leader of PLC installations in the US. Now they have a fully supported Siemens Symbolic Addressing driver, which will greatly simplify deploying Ignition on systems powered by Siemens PLCs.
MaintainX Ignition Module
Another amazing announcement at ICC 2025 was the native Ignition Module from CMMS company MaintainX. They have been on our radar for a while as a great maintenance platform seeking to simplify and disrupt the relatively convoluted market full of legacy software in that space.
Typically, CMMS integrations required lots of development time to integrate with their APIs and databases. MaintainX decided that with the ever-increasing adoption of Ignition around the world, now was a great time to build their own module.
We are excited to work with everyone over at MaintainX to deploy this module with our mutual customers and help companies take advantage of the amazing benefits of using a CMMS system!
Taylor Guitars Presentation
Corso Systems' founder and CEO Alex Marcy has been an avid guitar player since he was 14. Every so often on the Ignition Forums, Tyler Robinson from Taylor Guitars would pose a question or share a solution, and Alex was always curious about what they were up to over there with Ignition.
At ICC this year, Tyler finally got a moment in the spotlight to share all of the amazing things they are doing over at Taylor Guitars, from their entry point with HVAC management all the way up to CNC integrations! Easily one of the coolest places on the planet using Ignition, and using it to great effect. Get your livestream pass to ICC today, or wait until the presentations are released early next year to learn how Ignition helped a small engineering team at Taylor Guitars say "yes" to most production requests in manufacturing.
Ignition Maker Edition Presentation
Corso Systems team member Adrienne Harvey also got her chance to shine in an ICC presentation! No stranger to the ICC stage, she represented our team at the Build-a-Thon in 2023 and was super excited to show off her home-grown electronics inventory system using Ignition Maker Edition.
We have been huge fans of Maker Edition since it came out, and Adrienne was able to leverage her extensive Ignition skills to build a powerful project to manage all of her robotics and electronics projects, mapping where everything was stored in her homebrewed storage solution, saving the hassle of re-buying parts she already had, and making it easy to figure out what she needed to acquire to take on a new project!
Wrapping Up
ICC is one of the highlights of the year for everyone at Corso Systems, and this year was no different. We highly recommend checking out all of the presentations if you have a livestream pass, or marking your calendar for when the videos are released, likely in early 2026 based on previous ICC events.
