Welcome MAC Engineering & Automation as an IoT Certified OptoPartner.

Looking to get started with an Internet of Things (IoT) project or application? MAC Engineering & Automation can help. They just received IoT certification from Opto 22 engineers based on their success in applications using groov EPIC and RIO.

Opto 22's Southeast Regional Manager, Dan White, recently worked with the team from MAC and shared:

"MAC Automation's expertise in designing and implementing complex industrial automation solutions makes them a perfect fit as an OptoPartner. With a deep knowledge of control systems, robotics, and process optimization, MAC Automation can collaborate with Opto 22 to deliver more innovative solutions."

Hear from MAC Automation on how they can help you with your next project.

Welcome True North Solutions as the newest OptoPartner in Opto 22's system integrator network.

The OptoPartner program is growing rapidly in 2023, and we're pleased to announce we just added another new member: True North Solutions. With headquarters based in both Colorado. USA and Alberta, Canada, they offer a wide range of services that includes IIoT solutions, cybersecurity, industrial telecom, electrical, mechanical, and process engineering.

Opto 22's Northwest Regional Manager, Bruce Campbell, has been working with True North Solutions and shared:

"True North Solutions is an important new integration partner for Opto 22. They have a long history in automation in the Oil and Gas industry in Colorado and Western Canada, two areas that have been big adopters of Opto 22's groov EPIC control system. Their expertise in designing and implementing turnkey control systems will help us deliver complete solutions to customers."

Learn more about their experience and expertise.

New OptoPartner Axiom Manufacturing Systems focuses on helping small and midmarket manufacturers achieve digital transformation.

With proven IoT expertise in the manufacturing sector, Axiom Manufacturing Systems can give you practical help with digital technology. Their Opto 22 IoT Certified partnership comes as a result of several recent applications utilizing both groov EPIC and groov RIO, most notably the Indiana Energy Insights project discussed in one of our previous blog posts. 

See their application experience and the solutions they offer by visiting the Axiom partner page.

Meet new OptoPartner True Data Ops—dedicated to continuous equipment monitoring with the help of groov RIO.

We are pleased to announce another new member joining the OptoPartner program this month: True Data Ops—providing IoT solutions for predictive maintenance, asset management, energy monitoring, and more.

TDO took an immediate interest in the groov RIO product line to help them deliver the data access you need to make important financial and operational decisions.

Read about their application experience and signature projects.

We welcome TAS to the OptoPartner integrator community as they expand their product solutions to include groov EPIC and RIO.

If you're looking for Ignition® and automation experts in the upstream oil and gas industry, you'll want to know Texas Automation Systems (TAS), the latest member to join the OptoPartner program. Their expertise in edge technology solutions like EPIC and RIO has earned them IoT Certified partner status.

TAS offers an innovative way to streamline processes and increase productivity. With their cutting-edge technology and automated solutions, businesses in Texas and nationwide can save time and money while improving their operations. It's also worth noting TAS is consistently recognized by Inductive Automation as a Top-Selling Ignition Software Integrator.

Arun Sinha, Opto 22's Director of Business Development, added "We look forward to working closely with the TAS team to build a strong, long-lasting partnership that benefits our customers and advances the field of automation and control."

Here's a quick look at their company overview, and how they can help you with your PLC and SCADA development.

Can you maintain your business in the face of supply chain challenges and ransomware attacks? Join us for a resilience webinar.

You know it’s critical for manufacturers to be able to maintain business continuity in the face of operational challenges like these. When working with today's cloud and edge computing technologies, operational resilience is vital.

Join us as Opto 22’s Rene Gamero and tech partner 4IR Solutions CTO Joe Dolivo discuss this important topic in a new webinar presentation live streaming on March 30.

In this joint webinar, Joe and Rene will discuss common obstacles to achieving operational resilience and provide a live solution demo featuring FactoryStack and groov EPIC that demonstrates overcoming security, connectivity, and reliability challenges.

IoT Certified system integrator is ready to help with your IA and IIoT projects.

With some impressive groov EPIC projects recently completed in the Life Science field, our newest OptoPartner, JSat Automation Inc., brings a unique set of skills and experience to our growing list of IoT Certified system integrators.

Opto 22's Director of Business Development, Arun Sinha, was instrumental in onboarding JSat as a partner. "We initially came together around a specific solution they developed for the Life Sciences industry. Now with their expertise on the groov hardware platform, CODESYS, and Inductive Automation's Ignition, they can surely help Opto 22 customers across many other verticals they serve, with both traditional automation applications as well as end-to-end IIoT projects."

Learn more about JSat Automation on their OptoPartner page and from their company introduction.

This Colorado-based system integrator can help with your automation projects.

If you're looking to get real-time data from production equipment for dashboarding and enterprise-wide reporting, the engineering team at Convergence Controls and Engineering can help. They're the newest member of our OptoPartner system integrator program. 

Based in Littleton, Colorado, but serving all of the United States and Canada, Convergence Controls brings their expertise to major industries including energy, food and beverage, water treatment, manufacturing and more.

Hear from Evo Integration as their success with groov RIO projects has earned them IoT OptoPartner status.

Meet our newest member of the OptoPartner program: Evo Integration, "the evolution of integration today." 

Centrally located in eastern Pennsylvania, Evo Integration is a one-stop shop for all of your automation, communication, and electrical needs.  Their team recently completed a project in the Food & Beverage industry, where they used groov RIO, MQTT, and OPC UA technologies to monitor remote location storage. This impressive application got the attention of the Opto team of engineers, and led to inviting Evo to become an IoT Certified OptoPartner.

Hear from OptoPartner 4IR Solutions in this guest blog post as CTO Joe Dolivo describes the ideal device for running Ignition Edge software.

The Ignition platform by Inductive Automation provides a modern, robust, and flexible development environment for building SCADA, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 applications in support of digital transformation initiatives.

Ignition's scalable architecture makes it a perfect solution for building both fully on-premises applications as well as "hybrid cloud" applications that are distributed across both the cloud and the edge. In the industrial automation world, most cloud-enabled solutions still require an on-premises component to allow control of equipment and data buffering in the event of connectivity issues. Ignition provides a purpose-built Ignition Edge product suite for this use case, which must be deployed on a complementary hardware platform that is appropriate for running plant-floor applications.

Let's consider for a moment what an ideal device for running Ignition Edge might look like—our hypothetical Ignition Edge "Dream Machine."