This was MR’s first Ignition project, but the company leveraged the free, online Inductive University courses to learn how Ignition works. Ignition proved to be absolutely the simplest system to work on. The older interface was cluttered and difficult to gain a complete understanding of the plant operation with, so MR completely redesigned the UI to make more of the critical information readily available. The cost of this fully redundant system, even with the time required to recreate the existing system, was significantly less than it would have been to use another HMI package. MR Systems went with the fully redundant Gateway server configuration, which worked without any issues whatsoever. The main engineer on the project for MR, having come from more than 20 years of experience with Wonderware, found the Ignition platform to be exponentially easier to set up and configure, in addition to being very fast.
The “live” editing nature of Ignition allowed for rapid development and checking of the new system to ensure accuracy.
MR started the implementation of the system running in parallel with the City’s existing system to verify all the information was correct. The desire for much easier access to historical data was also high on the list. The City wanted the flexibility of unlimited clients, as well as alarm notification capability. This project was required to replace the failing iFix system. The Water Authority desired to go with a different package that would provide a significantly more robust, reliable, and flexible control system. This was the first Ignition project done by MR Systems for the City of Anderson, South Carolina, to replace the City’s older, failing, iFix SCADA system. Architectures used: Standard with Redundant Failover Server.Devices used: 21 (Modicon Quantum and AB Control Logix).Ignition Exchange Community-made Ignition resources.Ignition Maker Edition Made for hobbyist and educational use.Ignition Edge Made for field and OEM devices at the edge.
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