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2025: A Year of Momentum, Community, and Meaningful Progress

2025 was fast, full, and genuinely exciting.
It was a year that challenged us, stretched us, and ultimately reminded us why community sits at the heart of everything we do at Element8. From team growth and training initiatives to major technology releases and community milestones, this year set a strong foundation for what’s next.

Sibanye-Stillwater’s Digital Leap: A Journey into Smarter Operations

When Sibanye-Stillwater embarked on a project to modernise its Rustenburg pack operations, the goal was clear: to replace ageing legacy systems with a more intelligent, more secure, and highly scalable solution. Partnering with Concera, the team embraced Ignition and delivered a cutting-edge SCADA application that’s transforming operations.

How ECM is Transforming Energy Management in South Africa with Ignition and MQTT

Energy management is becoming increasingly critical, particularly in regions with distributed power systems and high demand for reliability. ECM (Energy Control and Management), led by Hendrik and Gerhard, is at the forefront of this transformation, developing innovative solutions for IES (Infinite Energy Storage) that combine industrial automation expertise with cutting-edge energy management technologies.

Ignition Live: Where Innovation Meets Application

Markus Oosthuizen will take you on an interactive journey through the possibilities of Ignition, showing live, practical applications that spark new ideas and unlock fresh opportunities for your operations. This isn’t just a demo… It’s a hands-on exploration designed to inspire, challenge, and equip you with the tools to transform the way you work.

The Courier Guy: Unifying Systems with Ignition

See how The Courier Guy integrated multiple OEM systems into a powerful platform using Ignition. This unified approach delivers seamless data flow, real-time visibility, and improved operational control, transforming complex, disconnected systems into one streamlined solution.

Sibanye Stillwater: Mining & Smelting Innovation

Discover how Sibanye Stillwater transformed their mining and smelting operations using Ignition and Canary for real-time visibility, data-driven decision-making, and improved operational efficiency.

Shu Powders: Plant Monitoring & Traceability with Ignition, Canary, and Sepasoft

Discover how Shu Powders has elevated its operations by integrating Ignition, Canary, and Sepasoft into a connected plant platform that delivers real-time visibility, rapid response to operational changes, and material traceability, enabling smarter decision-making, stronger compliance, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Hulamin: Multi-Site Production Visibility & System Integration with Ignition & Canary

Discover how Hulamin is replacing multiple HMI and SCADA systems with Ignition and Canary across two sites — streamlining generator, compressor, and production monitoring while enhancing operations at the Richards Bay plant. This unified platform delivers real-time visibility, centralised data access, and smarter decision-making, driving a more efficient and future-ready operation.

IES: Smarter Energy Control with Ignition & MQTT

IES brings together SQL data storage, secure MQTT communication, and automated client onboarding in a single, powerful platform. With hybrid coding, flexible hardware integration, and auto-generated tags and screens, their solution accelerates deployment and delivers future-ready energy monitoring and control.

Mediclinic: Utilities Optimised with Ignition and Canary

Discover how Mediclinic leveraged Ignition and Canary to monitor, manage, and optimise their utilities infrastructure across 50 hospitals in South Africa, saving costs, improving efficiency, and enhancing operational reliability.

Ignition 8.3 and Beyond

Experience firsthand what Ignition 8.3 can do for your operations. Kevin will unveil its game-changing features and give you a glimpse into the future of industrial automation.

The Power of Partnership: Our Top-Selling Partners of 2024

System integrators are at the heart of our community, creating innovative solutions that transform industries for thousands of customers.

We are honoured to support these integrators, showcase their accomplishments, and celebrate the top-selling integrators yearly.

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,”…

Deeper Dive into Ignition 8.3

In this video, Travis continues to share what’s new with 8.3. This time, we’re looking at some project-level resources and other features available through the designer, including new…

What’s New in Ignition 8.3

Travis explores the upcoming features in Ignition 8.3 and how these powerful new tools can inspire users to achieve their next significant breakthrough.

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…

Customer Showcase: Devil’s Peak

Devil’s Peak Brewing Company, founded in 2012 in Cape Town, has grown from a small microbrewery into one of South Africa’s leading craft beer and cider producers. With a strong focus…

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…

What is SCADA? A Guide to Understanding This Powerful System

In industrial automation and data management, staying ahead means leveraging the latest technologies to optimise operations, enhance efficiency, and minimise downtime. In effect, the role of edge computing has become increasingly significant. Ignition Edge by Inductive Automation, a compact but powerful variant of the acclaimed Ignition platform, is designed to bring the power of automation closer to where the action happens: at the edge of your network.

Unlocking the Potential at the Edge: An In-Depth Look at Ignition Edge

In industrial automation and data management, staying ahead means leveraging the latest technologies to optimise operations, enhance efficiency, and minimise downtime. In effect, the role of edge computing has become increasingly significant. Ignition Edge by Inductive Automation, a compact but powerful variant of the acclaimed Ignition platform, is designed to bring the power of automation closer to where the action happens: at the edge of your network.

The Power of Ignition: Revolutionising Cross-Site Monitoring for SolaSynergi

SolaSynergi’s solar hybrid projects are diverse and located in different areas, often involving advanced technology. In most instances, their clients lack on-site technical staff to maintain or troubleshoot these assets. This situation prompted SolaSynergi to develop a method for remote management and maintenance of the assets.

REVOLUTIONISING WATER MANAGEMENT IN MINING WITH IGNITION AND MQTT

Water management solution via Ignition

Watercare Innovations is a leader in industrial water treatment solutions with a focus on Africa and the US. The primary challenge faced was the need for a comprehensive system that could prioritise live monitoring while incorporating control, trending, and ultimately prediction capabilities for a complex network of treatment sites.

The Power of Partnership: Our Top Partners of 2023

We are thrilled to bring to the forefront our top partners of 2023. These remarkable organisations have not only achieved unparalleled success within their specific industries but have also played a pivotal role in shaping our narrative.

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.

Döhler and PROXA Water 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.

Ignition Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics

The diagnostics and troubleshooting basics for Ignition were aimed at the more experienced developers and users. Laura discussed the numerous built-in tools for gathering diagnostic and health information about the Ignition system.

What’s That in the Sky? An Intro to Ignition in the Cloud

There’s so much buzz around deploying Ignition in the cloud that you’d think it gives your system superpowers. But does a cloud deployment align with your organisation’s grounded, realistic objectives? Our “captain” for this flight, Kent Melville, introduced cloud deployment
concepts and discussed which architectures and scenarios most benefit from cloud-based integration.

High-Performance HMI Techniques with Ignition

Gary Lowenstein from Element8 shares the value of high-performance HMI design, the basic concepts to remember, real-world examples, and helpful resources to get started with this approach.

The Unified Namespace (UNS): How-To Guide for Success

With the Unified Namespace, we’re entering a new frontier where you can bring order to your data by standardizing how you organize and name it. And by doing that, you’ll increase efficiency, enable easy scalability, and say goodbye to data silos for good. Get tips on building a successful Unified Namespace architecture and find out how to leverage Ignition UDTs and MQTT for data standardization.

The New Ignition Edge

All the features of the Ignition Edge product line have been packed into two powerful products: Ignition Edge IIoT and Ignition Edge Panel.

IGNITION SAVES UCL SAWMILL TIME & MONEY

UCL Sawmill has come a long way since being founded in 1935, establishing themselves as an important part of the local economy by ensuring sustainable and reliable movement of timber throughout South Africa. Though…

Changes to our training starting 2023

Our 2023 training schedule is now live, and we’re excited to share that we will be having more courses available in Durban and Cape Town going forward.

Case Study: Merweville – Beaufort West Local Municipality

It’s nothing new that South Africa has been struggling with drought in recent years. And one little town in particular in the Great Karoo was suffering, as it’s one of the driest parts of the country. Besides the drought, Merweville was dealing with a list of other problems that included a crumbling reservoir and tedious manual processes.

Luckily, Integ System Integrators could help save the day by installing the Ignition Platform & the Flow Information Platform.

Download the full case study to read how Ignition and Flow were able to transform Merweville’s reservoir infrastructure, modernise their processes and erase the possibility of future theft problems.

Evolving Water Operation’s Edge With Ignition And MQTT

In this conversation with Brian Cooper from INTEG System Integrators, we’ll share how Ignition and MQTT transformed the operations of the Oudtshoorn municipality in South Africa. Situated in the Klein Karoo region of the Western Cape, Oudtshoorn is a water-scarce region. Visibility, measurement, and effective control of irrigation systems and borehole levels are crucial, both to reduce waste of available water resources and minimize variability in flow regimes and recharge. Using small and cost-effective Edge devices and standard protocols, MQTT and Ignition by Inductive Automation® solved several challenges. There are lower operating costs, enterprise-wide and real-time visibility, and reduced response times, from five minutes to mere seconds.