Ignition SCADA integration for your plant.
Operator screens, useful alarms, production history, and phased migrations. Connect your existing controls to a SCADA system your operators and engineers can use.
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A visible state helps operators locate the area that needs attention.
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Counts need a shift, product, and quality definition to be useful.
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Priority and acknowledgement help separate actionable alarms from noise.
When a SCADA project makes sense
You need to replace an unsupported HMI or SCADA application, bring disconnected equipment into one view, or give operations a reliable record of production. Start with the decisions your team needs to make, then define the screens and data that support them.
What a scoped project can include
Choose the parts your plant needs. A historian, mobile screens, MQTT infrastructure, and ERP integration are separate scope decisions.
- Equipment and tag inventory, including connection and data-quality checks.
- Ignition Perspective screens, trends, navigation, and operator review.
- Alarm priorities, deadbands, acknowledgement, and agreed notification workflows.
- Historian configuration, retention requirements, and production reports.
- Factory and site acceptance tests, cutover steps, backups, and editable project handover.
Work with the controllers already installed
HillPoint works with Allen-Bradley and Siemens systems, including ControlLogix, CompactLogix, S7-1200, and S7-1500. Legacy controllers can need gateways, additional drivers, configuration changes, or replacement hardware. We check the actual model, firmware, protocol, and connection limits before specifying the interface.
Plan a migration around operations
Inventory the current application, alarms, users, history, and dependencies. Build and test the replacement, agree any parallel running, and commission by area where practical. Establish which system owns writes and commands during transition.
A cutover plan includes an agreed outage window where required, acceptance criteria, and a tested recovery path. Historical data export and access are scoped separately; format and licensing can affect what transfers.
Understand the module and license scope
Ignition is modular. The proposal should identify the edition, visualization, historian, reporting, drivers, redundancy, and support required. Standard platform licensing should not be confused with the cost of every module or third-party product.
MQTT integration uses appropriate modules and a broker. Cirrus Link offers MQTT modules for Ignition; these capabilities are not all included simply by installing the base platform. A Unified Namespace is an architecture choice, not a prerequisite for every small SCADA project.
A relevant manufacturing project
HillPoint delivered alarm rationalization, Level 2 integration, remote I/O, and VFD work at a beverage manufacturing operation. The alarm work reduced nuisance alarms and made the alarm summary more useful to operators. Read the project summary for the controls and integration scope.
How the project is priced
Scope depends on equipment connections, screen complexity, alarm work, historical records, licensing, testing, and commissioning. A defined first area gives us a practical basis for an estimate. The services page lists existing engagement options; a plant-specific SCADA price follows scope review.
Let’s define your first integration project.
Tell us which controllers and software you use, what you want to improve, and your production constraints. Start with a 15-minute project discussion.