Ignition Perspective | MES | SCADA | plant-floor integration
Ignition MES and SCADA, built for the plant floor.
WitanTech builds and owns Ignition Perspective systems for battery and automotive manufacturing - track and trace, gate checks, database front-ends, and production reporting - and connects them to the PLCs, scanners, and edge devices the line runs on.
- Ignition 8.1 Gold
- Certified by Inductive Automation, 2024
- Two battery sites
- MES and SCADA ownership, track and trace to reporting
- Three plants
- Perspective patterns and standards set during startup
Services
Services built from production systems
Every service below maps to a system WitanTech has built, deployed, and supported on a live line.
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Ignition MES
Track and trace, gate checks, database front-ends, and production reporting in one Ignition Perspective MES.
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SCADA and plant overviews
Operator screens that show station status, AGV positions, and the alarms that actually matter.
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PLC and device integration
OPC-UA servers, PLCs, scanners, and edge devices brought onto one data path.
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SQL, reporting, and data pipelines
The data layer behind the screens: schemas, queries, and reports that people trust.
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Template libraries and standards
Reusable Ignition templates so the next line or site commissions from a proven baseline.
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Machine vision and edge inference
Classification at the station, wired back into the MES.
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OT infrastructure and deployment
Containerized services, scheduled jobs, and secured remote access that stays up.
Capability strip
Tools in the field
The stack WitanTech works in, drawn from the same systems listed above.
Manufacturing software
- Ignition Perspective 8.1 (Gold Certified)
- Ignition MES / SCADA
- Sepasoft MES
- FactoryTalk
- Epicor
- SAP
Industrial protocols and devices
- OPC-UA
- MQTT
- Modbus
- Mitsubishi
- Allen-Bradley
- Siemens
- Cognex DataMan
- Keyence
- ASRS and gantry integration
- AGV tracking
- Pick-to-light
- Photo eyes and line sensors
- Raspberry Pi (edge inference)
Languages and data
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- T-SQL
- SQL
- Bash
- VBA
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- ETL pipelines
- REST APIs
- HTML / CSS
Platform and deployment
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- systemd (services, timers, user units)
- Linux (Ubuntu, WSL2)
- Caddy reverse proxy
- Cloudflare Tunnel
- CI/CD pipelines
- Bash automation
- journald log analysis
AI, agents, and vision
- Local LLM serving (Ollama)
- Hermes agent framework
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Agent tool and skill design
- Model benchmarking (qwen3, llama3.2)
- Computer vision (image classification)
- TensorFlow
- Human-in-the-loop retraining
Version control and collaboration
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Pull requests and code review
- Conventional Commits
Selected work
Systems in production
Described by industry and scope. Client names are withheld by default.
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MES and SCADA ownership for two battery manufacturing sites
Ignition MES and SCADA ownership for two battery manufacturing sites: track and trace, gate checks, database front-ends, and production reporting.
- Built a reusable library of Ignition templates for track and trace, gate checking, and database front-ends, so new lines and sites commission from a proven baseline
- Process requirements turned into MES workflows and operator screens, worked out directly with production and quality teams
Ownership
- Ignition Perspective
- MES
- SCADA
- Track and trace
- Production reporting
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Ignition Perspective standards across three plants in startup phase
Ignition Perspective development across three plants in startup phase, setting the patterns and standards other plant engineers built on.
- Connected OPC-UA servers and Mitsubishi PLCs into plant-wide data collection for new production lines
Standards and integration
- Ignition Perspective
- OPC-UA
- Mitsubishi PLCs
- Data collection
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Battery gigafactory SCADA
Ignition Perspective SCADA for a battery manufacturing gigafactory, from track and trace through MES administration.
- Track and trace and gate checking
- Recipe management
- MES admin dashboards and reporting
Client delivery
- Ignition Perspective
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Docker
- Git
- Raspberry Pi
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Plant overview with live AGV tracking - defense industry
A plant overview showing the status of every station plus the real-time position and status of dozens of AGVs.
- Pan-and-zoom container for the whole plant
- Abstracted into a reusable template for fast deployment
Client delivery
- Ignition Perspective
- FactoryTalk
- AGV tracking
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