Inductive Automation creates industrial software that helps organizations connect data, design applications, and deploy them across the enterprise. Its flagship product, Ignition, is a modular, web-deployed platform used for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), manufacturing execution systems (MES), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), human-machine interface (HMI), alarming, reporting, and edge computing. The platform is built on open standards such as SQL, Python, MQTT, and OPC UA and uses an unlimited licensing model per server.
Founded in 2003 in Folsom, California, by control-system integrator Steve Hechtman, the privately held company now serves thousands of integrators and industrial organizations in more than 100 countries, including a majority of Fortune 100 companies. Customers use Ignition in industries such as water and wastewater, oil and gas, food and beverage, manufacturing, automotive, energy, and life sciences.
