Janice Colmer
Janice has worked at Opto 22 for nearly 20 years and is part of the marketing team that strives to share new and relevant content with the automation industry. She enjoys books, camping, country music, and spending time with family and friends.
Learn new solutions for your industrial automation projects from an expert community at the annual Ignition Community Conference.
Are you ready to find new solutions for getting data from your legacy systems? Looking for ways to overcome the obstacles of manual processes and competing control systems? Or do you just want a better understanding of how to use Ignition software in your projects?
Learn all this and more at the annual Ignition Community Conference—hosted by Opto 22's technology partner, Inductive Automation.
Join us September 22 - 24, 2026 in Sacramento, CA. Register to attend and get details on Opto 22's presentations during the three-day event.
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
Ignition Community Conference,
groov RIO,
SCADA,
Build-a-Thon
Meet Weisz Instrumentos SA—the authorized distributor of Opto 22 products in Peru.
Weisz Instrumentos has been a valued OptoPartner and distributor in Argentina for several years. They have now expanded their offerings to Peru.
With over 50 years of industrial engineering experience, Weisz offers customized technical solutions to customers in manufacturing, but they are also known for their integration, automation, and control systems in oil and gas.
Learn what this partnership will mean for you and the new technologies it will bring to your projects.
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Topics:
IIoT,
Industrial Internet of Things,
groov EPIC,
OptoPartner,
groov RIO,
OptoChannel
Join Opto 22 at the third annual OT SCADA CON event—planned and built by a community of engineers.
Dive into the world of operational technology and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems with industry experts and fellow enthusiasts. Opto 22 is returning to OT SCADA CON taking place in Houston July 22 – 24, 2026.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to expand your knowledge and grow your professional network. It promises to be the perfect chance to connect, learn, and network in person.
OT SCADA CON is for controls people, maintenance staff, technicians, and sales professionals to learn all about operational technology and the world of SCADA. See the event agenda and register to attend.
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
SCADA,
OT data
The Who's groovin video series continues with a look at how highly specialized and complicated refrigeration systems can be monitored remotely.
Do you work in a very specialized industry where downtime means major profit loss and technicians are hard to find?
That was the problem facing CryoPhit USA, an OEM manufacturer of cryotherapy chambers. These systems produce extreme temperatures, and fixing them can be time consuming. If a machine goes down, the operator's revenue stops cold.
In episode 8 of the Who’s groovin video series, see how CryoPhit turned a hard-to-service refrigeration system into one they can diagnose remotely and predict failures for before they happen.
Watch:
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Topics:
Case studies,
Videos,
OEM,
groov RIO,
Who's groovin
New webinar discusses the evolving MQTT protocol and the latest Sparkplug release for connecting OT data to enterprise systems.
Do your applications require deploying MQTT brokers, building Sparkplug architectures, or connecting OT data?
Cirrus Link Solutions, an Opto 22 technology partner, has a webinar coming up that you won't want to miss.
Get all the details on how to register for the July 15th presentation.
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Topics:
Webinars,
MQTT,
Sparkplug,
MQTT implementation,
Cirrus Link Solutions,
Technology Partners
New case study shows you how a SCADA integrator turned a patchworked, incomplete design specification into a streamlined monitoring solution.
How do you monitor radioactive waste activity and storage that will move continuously for decades—while collecting thousands of critical position measurements every second?
This was the challenge facing SCADA system integrator TUVI & Co. Ltd., a Bulgarian engineering firm.
They needed to track 19,008 cell positions across 66 permanent storage cells, plus 122 in a temporary storage building. Every move has be be recorded, and every position confirmed.
Opto 22's new case study explains how TUVI achieved it.
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Topics:
Case studies,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
SCADA
Learn how network segmentation protects the devices that can't protect themselves.
Are you a manufacturer who is trying to modernize operations without replacing the PLCs and control systems that are still working? Your machines are still running, but you face the challenge of connecting their OT data to IT networks.
These legacy systems weren't made to hold up to today's cybersecurity threats when they are exposed to the internet or business networks.
So what's the answer? Read a new technical article that offers practical solutions—and see why network segmentation is vital to unlocking OT data in a secure way.
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Topics:
groov EPIC,
cybersecurity,
groov RIO,
network segmentation
A new webinar series highlights the strong partnership between Inductive Automation Australia, Binford Tech, and Opto 22 to offer complete solution packages to customers in the region.
Australian engineers are increasingly asked to connect more systems, modernize aging infrastructure, improve cybersecurity, and deliver real IIoT results. Can you do it without ripping out existing systems that work?
This new two-part webinar series shows how you can.
Join Opto 22, Inductive Automation’s only hardware Premier Technology Partner, Inductive Automation Australia, and Australia-based distributor Binford Tech for a practical presentation on how modern industrial hardware can simplify secure edge deployment with Ignition.
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Topics:
Case studies,
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
edge computing,
groov RIO,
webinar
Listen to a recent episode of Inductive Automation's Ignited podcast to see how the open-source MQTT protocol has completely changed industrial data architectures.
Are you looking to build systems that move data—reliably and securely—across an enterprise? Have proprietary approaches slowed you down or locked you in?
Episode 4 of Inductive Automation's new Ignited podcast is a must listen! The co-inventor of MQTT, Arlen Nipper, and Opto 22 VP Benson Hougland are the featured guests on this podcast, reviewing industrial automation technology and taking you into the future.
Inductive Automation's Travis Cox and Thomas Burke host this discussion about why MQTT and Sparkplug B are now the key to scalable industrial data, and why edge computing changes everything.
Listen in on these insightful conversations:
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Topics:
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
Sparkplug,
Ignition,
podcast,
OPC UA
The latest firmware release is now available for your SNAP PAC System.
If you are using any of the following SNAP PAC System controllers or brains, you'll want to take a look at the new R10.7a update:
SNAP PAC R-series
SNAP PAC S-series
SoftPAC
G4EB2 brains
See the latest enhancements and important fixes included in this release.
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Topics:
Firmware,
PAC Manager,
snap pac