Ignition & Perspective field notes
Hard-won lessons from building modules and Perspective projects for real plant floors — data tables, UDTs, dashboards and the gaps worth filling.
Ignition MQTT & Sparkplug for water districts and IIoT
Report-by-exception SCADA for distributed sites — edge nodes, brokers, store-and-forward, bandwidth and security, and when OPC UA is still the better call.
Ignition alarm notification & on-call setup
Priorities, notification pipelines, email/SMS/voice, WIN911 and on-call escalation, mobile push — and how to keep alarm flood from burying the signal.
Migrating FactoryTalk or iFIX to Ignition
Moving off Rockwell FactoryTalk View or GE iFIX — comms to Allen-Bradley and other PLCs, tag models, graphics, alarms and history, phased and parallel.
How much does an Ignition project cost?
The four cost buckets — licensing, integration labor, infrastructure and support — what moves the number, and how to get a realistic estimate.
How to choose an Ignition integrator
What an integrator actually does, what to look for, the questions to ask, and the red flags that signal an unmaintainable system.
Ignition Perspective vs Vision: which to choose
When to use Vision's desktop HMI vs Perspective's web/mobile clients, whether to run both, and how to migrate Vision to Perspective.
Ignition vs Wonderware: licensing & total cost of ownership
Per-server unlimited licensing vs per-tag/per-client — where the cost difference comes from and what it means as a plant scales.
When the stock Perspective Table isn't enough
Six places the built-in table runs out of road on production screens — pinned columns, multi-sort, validated editing — and how to close the gap.
Building an OEE dashboard in Ignition for food & beverage
Availability, performance and quality done honestly — clean run-state and counts, downtime reasons at the source, and a Pareto that tells maintenance where the hours go.
Replacing Wonderware with Ignition
A phased, parallel migration off Wonderware / AVEVA — licensing, tag models, graphics, alarms and history — without betting the plant on a single switch-flip.
Ignition Perspective for remote plant & water-district monitoring
Architecture for distributed sites — MQTT/Sparkplug edge data, store-and-forward, security and mobile alarm callout for pump stations and unmanned plants.
MES & SCADA for dairy processing on Ignition
CIP and pasteurization monitoring, lot traceability and genealogy, OEE and SPC, and ERP integration with Sepasoft — on one Ignition stack.