SCADA Forge Ignition Training - Maker

Understanding Automation is focused on the overall concepts applicable to most automation projects including defining terms like SCADA, PLC, and discussing how Ignition fits into the overall scheme of things.

This chapter will give you a functional understanding of basic automation concepts including using a car as an analogy to a manufacturing process to explain how the various pieces fit together in a simple and concise way.

This chapter explains the concepts of tags in the world of automation using analogies of a household thermostat and a car to explain how tags are simply data points in a process automation system.

After completing this chapter you will have a functional understanding of what tags are and how to use them in an automation project.

This chapter provides a high level overview of the various screen options in Ignition in both the Perspective and Vision Modules, including many examples.

After completing this chapter you will have a functional understanding of how screens work in Ignition and how they can be used to build any type of user interface you could ever desire in Ignition.

Learn about the Ignition platform including a walk through various system architectures, the Ignition Gateway webpage, how to set up projects, security, along with a detailed review all of the various settings on an Ignition gateway.

Learn about the Programmable Device Simulator in Ignition, how to add a connection to it, and utilize the built-in simulation programs to provide data for your Ignition development needs!

Learn about all of the various device connection options in Ignition and see an example of Ignition connecting to a real PLC in a real factory!

Learn about tags in Ignition. This enables you to integrate Ignition with real world devices like PLCs, use tags in your project to create user interfaces, track historical process data, and alarms.

Learn about templates in both the Vision and Perspective Modules in the Ignition platform.

Find out how templates can speed up development while providing the foundation for a scalable Ignition system.

Understand how templates use indirection to provide dynamic data visualization without additional development efforts.

Learn about User Defined Types (UDTs) in Ignition and how they can be used to make scalable Ignition projects.

See examples of UDTs in action and gain insight into how they are set up along with templates to speed up development for scalable Ignition systems.

Learn about the Ignition Expression language, how to utilize it in bindings and tags, and how it compares to scripting in Ignition.

Learn about scripting in Ignition, how it compares to the expression language, and how to take advantage of it to build powerful Ignition projects.

Learn about how Ignition is a powerful database integration tool.

See how to use Named Queries to manage data integrations across your projects, and how to use system.db calls in the scripting engine to manage complex scripting requirements across your projects.

Learn all you need to know about Vision Display and Data Entry components including labels, text fields, and numeric entry fields. Includes a detailed walk-through of why and how to use these components including all of the various options you need to know for tying them to data in your Ignition gateway.

Learn about all of the different button types in the Ignition Vision Module.

This includes why you would want to use a given button type in your project, and how to set it up for maximum effect. Includes binding to tags, expressions, scripting, and using buttons for data entry functions.

Learn how to leverage the tab strip component in Ignition’s Vision Module for navigation between windows in your application and for building complex graphics on a single window using the tab strip to swap between containers.

Learn how to take advantage of templates and popups in the Ignition Vision Module.

Includes everything you need to know to create and develop templates with tag indirection, use them on Vision windows, and how to map everything to popup windows for detailed views of your process equipment in Ignition.

Learn how to leverage the Easy Chart in Ignition’s Vision Module to view historical data easily in your project.

Includes a full run through of the Easy Chart Component as well as a detailed walk-through of the Vision Ad Hoc Trends resource from the Ignition Exchange.

Learn how to configure alarm journals, alarms on tags, and then utilize the Alarm Status and Alarm Journal components in Ignition’s Vision Module.

A full walk-through of all of the relevant functionality, including how to make your user’s lives easier by combining real time and historical alarm displays into a single screen!

Learn about the Ignition Launchpad program, how to get the KPI Dashboard and OEE projects, and install them on an existing Ignition gateway.

See a detailed walkthrough of all the functionality in the KPI Dashboard Ignition Launchpad project.

See how you can extend the functionality of the base level KPI Dashboard Ignition Launchpad project by adding new templates and a custom KPI widget to the KPI Dashboard.

Get a detailed overview of all of the OEE Ignition Launchpad project features and functionality.

See how you can extend the functionality of the base level OEE Ignition Launchpad project with batch management and batch specific OEE calculations.

Now that you are familiar with the KPI Dashboard and OEE Ignition Launchpad projects you will learn where you can take these projects to the next level.

Find out how to further leverage the power of the Ignition platform to add more value to your implementations.