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.

Meet your hosts for both webinars: 

Rene Gamero - Opto 22
Ed Fuentes - Inductive Automation Australia
Ivor Houston - Binford Tech

The first session is designed for engineers, system integrators, OEMs, and technical decision-makers looking for an industrial IIoT platform that is open, cybersecure, and ready to work with modern automation architectures.  

See how Opto 22 edge hardware provides a hardened industrial platform with support for Ignition, segmented networks, LDAP, MFA, Docker containers, Linux, Python, CODESYS, and open industrial protocols, so you can securely connect machines, PLCs, sensors, databases, cloud services, and SCADA systems without locking yourself into a closed ecosystem.

You’ll also hear from Binford Tech, Opto 22’s knowledgeable Australian distributor, on how local engineering teams can apply these technologies to real projects across manufacturing, mining, infrastructure, energy, water, and industrial automation.

How do you modernize decades-old industrial automation systems without ripping out working infrastructure? 

The second webinar dives into real Australian automation examples from the 1970s through today—including Optomux, mistic, SNAP I/O, SNAP PAC, groov EPIC, groov RIO, Ignition, Ignition Edge, MQTT, and modern brownfield SCADA architectures.  

Take a look at long-running Australian projects across water and wastewater, healthcare facilities, tunnels, utilities, marine/subsea systems, and aquaculture. The session also includes a modern salmon farming case study showing how groov EPIC and Ignition Edge helped simplify a brownfield architecture, reduce single points of failure, preserve existing Rockwell PLC control, and move toward a scalable MQTT-based architecture.

Thank you for your interest and for watching!

The teams from Opto 22 and Binford Tech will continue to work closely with Inductive Automation Australia throughout the year. We have several visits planned to key Ignition system integrators—all to help give Australia's industrial automation customers access to the latest edge technology that can solve their current challenges.