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.
The upcoming conference in Houston provides opportunities to learn best practices for data mobility and security for today’s industrial cyber environment.
Join us in Houston for this year's ENTELEC Conference & Expo, April 1-4, 2024. It's a chance to explore a complete edge solution for your project using Opto 22’s groov EPIC and RIO products, along with Opto 22 Technology partners Inductive Automation (Ignition Edge), Cirrus Link Solutions (MQTT Modules), and Snowflake (Data Cloud).
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
Oil & gas,
MQTT,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
groov RIO,
Inductive Automation,
Cirrus Link Solutions,
Snowflake
Ireland-based distributor now available to help meet your automation needs.
Announcing a new addition to our international channel of distributors and partners: Cully Automation Ltd in Ireland. Cully Automation offers groov EPIC, groov RIO, and the complete Opto 22 product line in the region.
With over 20 years’ experience in water treatment, process control, automation, and instrumentation within water utilities and multi-sector industries, Cully Automation brings extensive knowledge to help you choose automation products. Opto 22’s edge products and technologies complement their areas of expertise for an ideal partnership.
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Topics:
groov EPIC,
groov RIO,
OptoChannel
Take a deep dive into the transformative potential of monitoring your power consumption.
Join us for the first IntegrateLive! episode of 2024! OptoPartner
Corso Systems will help us present a live demo virtual workshop showing the capabilities of the
groov RIO EMU
(energy monitoring unit) along with Ignition software.
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Topics:
Webinars,
Ignition,
power monitoring,
groov rio emu
See real world examples of smart manufacturing success, a lunchtime mini-expo of programs, technologies, and interactive workshops.
Calling all Indiana-based manufacturers! You're invited to help shape the future of smart manufacturing in the state of Indiana, and Opto 22 will be there.
This free, one day roadshow includes advanced workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities. Hear from industry and technology experts who can help explain and demonstrate how to achieve digital transformation in your manufacturing plants.
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
smart manufacturing,
energy monitoring
Tell us how you use groov EPIC in your projects, and we'll send you our popular mini 3D-printed EPIC.
Remember how we celebrated your EPIC stories this past holiday by creating the mini groov EPIC ornament?
Well, it's back by popular demand. We're still hearing from many of you who are eager to share how you use or are planning to use groov EPIC in your applications, so let's keep the momentum going!
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Topics:
Case studies,
groov EPIC
This previously-recorded IIoT World webinar provides tips on how the IIoT can help your business.
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is transforming industries worldwide, but many businesses hesitate to take the plunge. You're not alone if you're wondering how IIoT can help your business achieve its goals.
In a recent webinar hosted by IIoT World, a panel of industry experts discussed the challenges and benefits of IIoT investment and how to deploy IIoT solutions for maximized return on investment (ROI).
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Topics:
Webinars,
IIoT,
digital transformation
Get great resources and tips from experienced Opto 22 product users—and help other users with your insights.
You’ll see the OptoForums mentioned here on the blog from time to time, and that's for good reason. The Forums have valuable technical advice, sample code, product feature discussions, and firmware release previews that you can't get anywhere else.
The OptoForums community just surpassed 10,000 members! A sincere thank you to all our valuable contributors. And if you're not already a member, now is the time to sign up or sign in with your MyOpto account. You can find the direct link under the Community tab on our website.
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Topics:
groov EPIC,
groov RIO,
OptoForum
Watch how easy it is to securely connect real-world, OT data to Ignition Cloud Edition.
Good news! Our friends at Inductive Automation recently made all the presentations from the 2023 Ignition Community Conference available for public viewing.
If you weren't able to join us last September in Folsom, California, then now's your chance to see one of the most attended sessions of the conference.
In a fast-paced 35-minute demo, Opto 22's VP of Product Strategy, Benson Hougland, walks you through how to use groov EPIC, Ignition Edge, and Ignition Cloud Edition to quickly create scalable, high-performance, cybersecure architectures for democratizing your OT system’s data: Elevate your OT Data Securely to the Cloud.
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Topics:
Events & conferences,
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
groov EPIC,
Ignition Cloud Edition
Visit Opto 22's Events page to see where you can find Opto engineers demonstrating groov products in 2024.
We're already a month into the new year and our calendar of events is filling up quickly. Opto 22 engineers, sales and marketing staff will be in attendance at various trade shows, conferences and participating in virtual webinars throughout the year.
Take a look at what's available online or in your area and plan to join us at one or more of these industry events. You'll have several opportunities to see live demos of groov EPIC and groov RIO.
Here's what's on the schedule so far.
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Topics:
Webinars,
Events & conferences,
groov EPIC,
groov RIO
See how Zendal overcame multiple challenges of cybersecurity, incompatible equipment, lockdown, logistics, and remote teams.
During the year 2020, dozens of companies worldwide worked to develop vaccines for the pandemic-causing virus COVID-19. Biofabri, a subsidiary of Spanish international biopharmaceutical group Zendal, became responsible for industrial production of the antigen vaccine for most of Europe.
Their task was daunting. Somehow they would have to construct and automate a new fill-and-finish facility during a worldwide pandemic, in a country with one of the strictest lockdowns. Logistics were soon in chaos, with even basic supplies unavailable. Zendal had a variety of older equipment in place with incompatible controllers and individual HMIs. They also had no control over the make or model of PLCs that package suppliers would provide with new equipment.
And towering over all other problems were issues of cybersecurity.
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Topics:
Case studies,
Ignition Edge,
groov EPIC,
cybersecurity