Itinerary: Day 1 - Inductive Automation

Ignition Core Training

Itinerary: Day 1 AM Session

Launch Designer & Create Project

Introductions

• Create project from template

• What are you looking to get out of the course?

• Designer overview

• What are some frustrations you’ve had using our software, if any? • What are some frustrations you’ve had using other SCADA software?

Windows & Navigation

• Typical window types

• Discuss typical navigation strategy

• Add window(s) to navigation

Software Introduction

• What is Ignition?

Client Launching

• What can Ignition do?

• Architecture overview

• Ignition architecture

• Windowed, Full-Screen, Mobile

Lunch (catered)

Installation

PM Session

Components, Shapes, and Symbol Factory

• Install Ignition on all student computers

• Drag components to window

Ignition Gateway

• Component manipulation & layout

• Accessing the Gateway

• Component properties

• Gateway Control Utility (GCU)

• Shape geometry

• Gateway sections

• Multi-line components

• Add icons to components

• Property binding

Activate Ignition

• How licensing & activation works

• Activate on all student computers

Tags

• What are Tags?

Connect to PLCs

• Browse PLCs and create Tags

• Dragging tags onto window & using tags

• Writing to Tags

• Device diagnostic tags

• Types of Tags (memory, expression, UDT, client, system)

• ControlLogix, MicroLogix, Modbus

Connect to Database

• MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle

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PM Session

Complex Tags (UDT)

Tags Historian

• Overview

• Overview

• UDT parameters & inheritance

• Log data

• Create motor UDT

• Table Structure

Visualization Templates

Display Historian Data

• Overview

• Graph historical data

• Template parameters

• Easy Chart customizations

• Templates & UDTs

• Tag Browse Tree component

• Create motor templates

• Tags Historian binding

Indirect Tag Bindings • Overview

• Templates & indirection

Templates continued...

• Template composition - templates in templates

• Template Repeater

• Cloud Templates

Lunch (catered)




PM Session

Popup Windows

Alarming

• Create & open popup windows

• Overview

• Parameterized popup windows

• Create alarms on Tags

• Open multiple instances of popup window

• Dynamic alarm setpoints

• Alarm associated data

• Alarm Summary Table

Indirect Tag Bindings

• Add easy chart to parameterized popup window and make indirect

Security • Overview

• Role-based security

• Authentication Profiles

• Security policies (Ignition and project)

• SSL Lunch (catered)


Alarm History

• Log alarm history

• Alarm Journal

Alarm Notification

• Users lists (Rosters)

• Basic email notification

• Alarm pipelines

• Custom alarm email subject & body

• Other notification types (SMS/Voice)



PM Session

Scripting

Scripting continued...

• Overview

• Global script functions

• Basic scripts

• Diagnose script error

• Python tutorial

• Extension Functions

• Helper scripts

• Keystroke scripts

Transaction Groups

• Timer scripts

• What is a transaction group?

• Tag change scripts

• Types of groups

• Group items

Lunch (catered)

• Triggers • Handshaking


• Create historical group

• Create recipe group

• Recipe Display



PM Session

Important Project Properties

Open for questions & discussion. Can cover:

• Auditing

• Simple PDF report

• Touchscreen support

• MES Modules (OEE / Downtime)

• Client publish mode

• Module SDK

• Client auto login

• Client minimum size and hiding menubar

Scripting continued...

• Retargeting Backups / Restores

• Import CSV

• Backup Ignition and SQL database

• List devices

• Discuss restore and transferring license

Lunch (catered)
