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.
A New Chapter for Training: Updated Courses, New Structure, Elevated Element8 Standards.
Big changes are coming to Element8’s training program!
Starting in January 2026, we’re rolling out a refreshed lineup of classes designed to align with Inductive Automation’s enhanced Ignition curriculum, providing you with a more streamlined, skill-based, and hands-on learning experience.
How Mentis Transformed Production With Real-Time Visibility, Integrated MES, and a Unified Digital Architecture
Mentis Africa, a long-established manufacturing leader in expanded metal, gratings, and engineered metal products, has spent decades operating in an environment familiar to many industrial plants: isolated machines, paper-based workflows, and a lack of reliable production visibility.
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.
Shu Powders’ Digital Transformation: Leveraging Ignition, Sepasoft, and Canary for Unified Operations
In 2020, Shu Powders, Africa’s only cobalt manufacturing company, embarked on a transformative journey to modernise its operations. Partnering with Afrilek Automation, the company implemented a phased digital solution that leveraged Ignition, Sepasoft MES modules, and Canary to tackle operational inefficiencies, safety risks, and compliance requirements across its entire plant.
Mentis Africa: Smart Manufacturing with Ignition & Sepasoft
Learn how Mentis integrated Ignition and Sepasoft to streamline manufacturing processes, enhance traceability, and unlock smarter production insights.
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.
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.
Sepasoft Fundamentals: Ignition-built MES
While we recognise that our community includes many specialists, the Sepasoft fundamental session served as an introduction to Sepasoft for many new members in attendance—the features and benefits and why and how you would deploy Sepasoft.
What Is The Meaning and Value of Scalability?
We’re living in an age where digital transformation is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. For businesses small and large, across every industry, being able to adapt to economic turbulence and industry demands could ultimately be the deciding factor of whether the business continues being a success or not. When we think about
Ep 19: Top MES Insights and Trends for 2021 with Gerhard Greeff
In this insightful episode, we speak with Walker from Intellic Integration about the concept of the Unified Namespace. And the role it plays as you build out your Industry 4.0 and IIoT architecture. The Unified Namespace is also a key to get us to the holy grail: Cloud-enabled and closed-loop business processes, in real-time.