Watch Opto 22's Showcase from the Ignition Community Conference and see how easy it is to bring your plant's assets into Ignition for robust data and analytics.

Do you have critical assets operating outside Ignition?

When machine health, energy use, and environmental conditions stay dark, you find out about failures, wasted power, and downtime only after they've cost you. 

At last month's Ignition Community Conference, Benson Hougland and Garrick Reichert took the stage for a live demo of how groov devices + Ignition can overcome these challenges simply and securely.

Partnering with 7 other technology platforms (thanks to open source standards), the demo walks you through the ACME Dynamite Factory architecture. The factory may be fictional, but the data is very real. Watch:

Experience the Ignition Community Conference through an Opto 22 perspective and learn why it's growing in relevance and attendance every year.

If you were at #ICCUnleashed in Sacramento, you felt it. If you weren't, here's the short version: the Ignition community keeps growing, and almost everyone I talked to wants the same thing, real data from their machines, new and old, flowing into Ignition.

Inductive Automation brought nearly 2,000 people to the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center September 22 to 24. That's nearly 2,000 different versions of ICC. I saw mine from behind the Opto 22 booth and from the stage as a speaker.

Here's a recap of the experience and why it's important to be a part of this growing Ignition community.

Three new partners, a palletizer on an Allen-Bradley PLC, and secure remote access to your legacy PLCs on demand.

If you're heading to the Ignition Community Conference next week, block out Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. The ACME Dynamite factory we brought to Automate has grown since May, and ICC is your chance to see it live.

Quick refresher: ACME is a fictional dynamite plant built by real automation companies to answer a practical question: what happens when you pick the best tool for each layer instead of buying one vendor's whole stack?

Two lines batch and discharge product following ISA-88. Line 1 runs a well-tuned loop, Line 2 is deliberately untuned, and the trends show you what good tuning is worth. Everything on the screen is live. Go look: op22.co/acme.

Since our earlier post, we've added three partners and three new pieces of plant. You'll want to check it out.

The upcoming EVO Expo provides two days of training, live demos and direct access to industrial automation manufacturers.

Are you trying to solve a specific industrial application challenge? Are you trying to keep up with new technology trends or looking to expand your industry network? 

These are all reasons you'll want to attend the EVO Expo, October 6 - 7, 2026—hosted by OptoPartner EVO Integration.

Get all the event details and see how the expo aims to give you a hands-on, practical way to stay ahead in industrial automation and manufacturing. 

Tune in to episode 12 of the Ignited podcast for real conversations on edge applications making a difference in very different industries.

Industrial automation is changing fast, but some of the biggest challenges remain surprisingly familiar: connecting equipment, getting useful data where it needs to go, and building systems that don’t box you in later.

Edge solutions are increasingly helping solve those challenges in both greenfield and brownfield systems. But don't you want to see what that actually looks like in practice?

Listen in as Opto 22's Dan White sits down with the Inductive Automation Ignited podcast team to break down four simple edge application stories that led to huge results.

The Who's groovin video series is back with episode 9 and the key to monitoring radioactive waste when every second is critical.

Have you ever been involved in a controls project that was a patchwork of competing vendors and systems?

Or have you been faced with the task of integrating different systems into one platform that scales?

In this edition of Who's groovin, see how a Bulgarian engineering firm took a radioactive waste facility from mismatched hardware to a single unified SCADA platform.

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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.

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.

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.

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: