How to justify Ignition to decision makers who are not familiar with the SCADA space

[JordanCClark]

@cbanzet

Am I the only who thinks that Rockwell's current solutions are ridiculously complex?

My original 2012 post, for posterity.

Make the case for Ignition

Real-world application. Granted, this was from the FSQL days, but Ignition has made things even better! We have a customer requirement for a traceability on the door modules we produce. The powers the be decreed that we would use a system by Rockwell Automation, as they were our “preferred solution provider”, rather than FSQL. So we spent approximately $65,000 on software and another approximately $40,000 in engineering costs to try to integrate an OMRON platform into their stuff (I censored my…