Inductive Automation has released Ignition 8.3, a significant update to its industrial application platform, Ignition® by Inductive Automation. Ignition offers resources for creating solutions in SCADA, IIoT, MES, HMI, and beyond. Ignition is utilized across almost all sectors in over 140 nations and has been adopted by 65% of Fortune 100 corporations.
The latest Ignition 8.3 brings significant improvements in data handling efficiency, security, management, and development speed to align operational technology (OT) with contemporary IT benchmarks and satisfy the speed and scalability requirements of today’s businesses.
“Ignition has disrupted the industry and defined a new paradigm in industrial enterprise integration. With Version 8.3, we have completed our long-standing vision to create the world’s most powerful, most open, and most flexible application development platform,” says Colby Clegg, CEO of Inductive Automation and co-creator of Ignition.
Key Ignition 8.3 features include:
- The new Industrial Historian Solution Suite, which includes the Historian Core Module, the SQL Historian Module, and a new Historian API for custom historian implementations.
- The new Event Streams Module, which enables mapping and directing of event-driven data by creating a communication pipeline between various sources (such as tag changes or Kafka topics) and handlers (like scripts or database tables).
- Perspective Module improvements, including a new Drawing Editor with native vector illustration tools, a form generator, and an offline mode for data entry and storage.
- The redesigned Ignition Gateway, featuring a faster, more powerful web interface, integrated search capabilities, enhanced customization and visual organization, and consolidated configuration and diagnostic tools.
- Next-level security that aligns with modern IT standards, including a new Secrets Management system, and Google Protobuf for faster, more secure communication between clients and gateways.
- Long-Term Support (LTS), receiving regular updates and enhancements through the next five years.
- Ignition 8.3 also features enhanced store-and-forward capabilities, improved enterprise deployment management, built-in REST API, new Gateway deployment mode, version control and collaboration with Git, simplified containerization, and much more.