ELEV8 2024 Recap: Building a Digital Infrastructure
On 22 and 25 October, the Ignition, Canary, and Flow communities gathered in Hazendal Estate in the Western Cape and Irene Country Lodge in Gauteng for the 2024 Elev8 Community Conference. This year’s theme, “Building your Digital Infrastructure,”…
Digital Infrastructure: The Role of the Industrial Historian
With the advent of MQTT, Sparkplug B, and Unified Namespace Architectures, Process Historians have become critical business tools for manufacturing companies. When we use…
Canary 24 Technical Deep Dive
Typical for a major update, some fundamental services have been removed while new services have been added. The configuration for certain aspects has been moved within…
What’s New in Canary 24
Ken discusses new features and enhancements related to Licensing, Axiom, Calculations, Store & Forward, Identity Service, and more.
Customer Showcase: Reproplast
Reproplast, a leading force in the circular economy for polyolefins, has integrated digital solutions to streamline their production processes. In doing so, they have gained more profound insights into operational…
Customer Showcase: Clover South Africa
Clover Industries, a leading group in branded foods and beverages, has adopted Ignition, Canary, and Flow as their digital infrastructure to address essential technology requirements. In this video, Deon discusses…
Customer Showcase: City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town Bulk Water Department produces approximately 1,000,000,000 litres (1000 MLD)of water daily, serving one of South Africa’s largest cities with geographically dispersed…
Fireside Chat
This year’s Elev8 Fireside chat offered a view into the current state of the automation industry and how it’s changing. The panel touched on many important topics, such as…
Grindrod TCM and Implats Customer Panel
The panel discussions brought together some of the best and brightest from the worlds of automation and technology. Customers and partners participated in the panel, discussing how their companies have deployed solutions and answering audience questions.
Automate Asset Discovery: Using the Canary System
Some companies deal with an ever-changing landscape of devices and tags. Whether it be assets in the field or entire plants that come online, if you can automate the discovery of new tags and assets, you will dramatically decrease your workload while providing faster data access to your client tools. Ken shows us how to achieve this with Canary quickly.
The Difference Between Historians: Data, Process, Site, Enterprise and Cloud
If you have spent time researching industrial databases, you have likely encountered several labels for historians. Ken speaks about the differences, important considerations and, most importantly, which one you need to get the job done!
Canary Fundamentals: The Data Historian that doesn’t compromise
While we recognise that our community includes many specialists, the fundamental session served as an introduction to Canary for many new members in attendance—the features and benefits and why and how you would deploy Canary.
DLF Live: Unleashing the Powerhouse Trio with Ignition, Canary & Flow
The Data Liberation Front team, led by Jaco, convened for their quarterly update, focusing on providing intuitive solutions for data-driven growth. Discussions included community news, product updates, and upcoming training courses.
CANARY HELPS PMC WASH AWAY UNNECESSARY COSTS
Palabora Mining Company is a mining company based in South Africa that has been operating since 1956. The main problem PMC faced was a lack of oversight on a specific pump, causing issues with water supply. Cavitation caused low reliability and production problems, resulting in high replacement costs and increased water expenses for PMC.
How-To: Get Legacy Historical Data Into Your Canary Historian
Utilise the power of the Canary web API to build your own collectors into the Canary Historian.
DLF Breakfast Get-Together – Gauteng
Our third DLF Breakfast Get-Together was another raging success, and it was all thanks to the support of our partners and customers.
Wrapping Up 2021
This year has again been disruptive. We realise that we rarely have complete control over significant issues. But the way we interact with each other as a community, the extra effort every day, adds up to create our best path forward.
How to Merge Datasets on Canary Views
In this guide we will show you how to merge datasets on Canary Views
How to Store Ignition Historian Data in Canary
We will show you in this guide how to Store Ignition Historian Data in Canary.
Importing tag data in CSV format into Canary
Learn how to import tag data in CSV format into Canary.
Licensing the Canary System
This Technical Note contains all the information required to license your Canary System through the Canary Admin application.
Connecting to an OPC UA/DA server in Canary
This Technical Note contains all the information required to set up a connection between Canary and an OPC UA or OPC DA server.
Canary Data Trends in WinCC
This Technical Note contains all the information required to visualize data trends from a Canary Historian in Siemens WinCC.
Where’s My Data? Dataops and the Unified Namespace with Ignition, Canary and Flow
Learn more about the value of the Unified Namespace. How to democratize your data, build your data model and facilitate cooperation.
#1 Changemaker Community Live!
Water Industry feature: 10 Steps to architecting a sustainable control system. And product updates. Watch the recordings here!
How-To: Create Seamless Integration Between Ignition Scada And Canary Historian
In this session, you will learn how to historise all relevant process parameters in the Canary Time Series historian by a click of a button.
Ep 04: The importance of Information and the value of adding context to Plant Data
One of the significant challenges almost all businesses are facing has been from the effects of COVID-19. But managing supply chain disruption is not new to Food and Beverage manufacturers. In this episode, we speak with Francois Theron from Clover, SA’s leading branded food and beverage group. Francois shares how they have adopted new tech, the drivers pushing innovation and the importance of cross-functional teamwork.
How To Collect And Store Edge Data With The Canary Historian
Part Two of a Three-Part virtual learning series. Lenny will build a practical demonstration which will answer common Historian questions. How do I log data? What are my connection options? How do I set-up my Historian, and how do I visualise the data?
Explore How You Can Maximize The Value Of Your Data With Canary
Organisations need to get as much value from their data as they can, but they struggle to give their team the necessary tools. Learn how the Canary System can help you empower your team members to do more with the data you are collecting. In this webcast we introduce an overview of the Canary System outlining how to build a solid data foundation.
