Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 adds AI, historian, and connectivity capabilities. September 27, 2026 By Craig Resnick Company and Product News Inductive Automation previewed Ignition 2027 at ICC 2026, alongside new TimescaleDB capabilities, a Beckhoff integration initiative, ISO certifications, and customer-support expansion. Inductive Automation previewed Ignition 2027 at its 2026 Ignition Community Conference. The release is expected to introduce new capabilities for AI-enabled workflows, operational data management, automated deployments, and multisite system management. The company also announced a strategic partnership with Tiger Data, a Beckhoff Technology Provider relationship, ISO 27001 and ISO 14001 certifications, and new customer-support initiatives. Ignition 2027 expands AI, historian, and Deployment capabilities. Ignition 2027 will include Ignition Catalyst, a framework for working with AI within the Ignition platform. Inductive Automation also announced a new Enterprise Historian Module for TimescaleDB and a new edition of TimescaleDB for Ignition. The release will additionally include updates to design tools, automated deployments, and multisite management. These capabilities extend the platform's focus beyond application development to include the management of distributed industrial systems and their underlying operational data. Key announced capabilities include: * Ignition Catalyst: A framework for developing and using AI-enabled functionality within Ignition. * Enterprise Historian Module for TimescaleDB: A new module intended for larger-scale and high-availability historian deployments. * TimescaleDB for Ignition: A new TimescaleDB edition for use with the Ignition platform. * Deployment and management updates: Enhancements to design tools, automated deployments, and multisite management. Tiger Data partnership and Beckhoff connectivity. Inductive Automation named Tiger Data, the developer of TimescaleDB, as a Strategic Partner. The two companies collaborated on TimescaleDB for Ignition and the Enterprise Historian Module. Inductive Automation will sell and support the TimescaleDB offering for Ignition. Beckhoff has also joined Inductive Automation's Technology Provider program. The companies are developing an ADS driver module for Ignition 2027 that will enable direct connectivity between Ignition and Beckhoff TwinCAT controllers. The module is intended to remove the need for third-party middleware or separate licensing for that connection. Certifications and customer-support initiatives. Inductive Automation announced that it has achieved ISO 27001 certification for information security management and ISO 14001 certification for environmental management. The company also announced an East Coast office in Maryland and a unified Client Services Team. The new team brings together sales, support, and community-management functions. Related ARC insights. The announcements position Ignition 2027 around three related areas: applying AI within industrial applications, managing growing volumes of operational time-series data, and extending connectivity across industrial automation environments.

Ignition 8.3.8: global control of historian seed values, installer restore option, Form Component improvements & more. by Jennifer Faylor, Inductive Automation on July 14, 2026 The Ignition release train starts summer off with a sizzle, giving you several hot new tools to build better automation solutions. Ignition 8.3.8 delivers global control of seed values in the historian, a new installer restore option, two flexibility-boosting improvements for the Form Component, new scripting APIs, and more. Global control of historian seed values. In Ignition 8.3.8, new historian functionality gives you an even greater level of control - there's now a configurable partition limit for querying seed values for SQL database historians. Before, you had to decide whether you wanted to turn on interpolation and inject seed values for every individual query. But now, you can limit the amount of seed values being used on a global level. With this new setting, you can choose to globally toggle querying of all, a specific number, or no partitions for seed values a given partition may have. Once you enable or disable this functionality, or once you limit how many partitions you want to allow for seed values, it will affect all queries being run for that historian. Installer restore option. Thanks to a user's request on the Ignition forum, you can now restore a Gateway backup during new Ignition installations. This new feature is a great way to streamline your workflow, enabling you to duplicate a Gateway configuration without a secondary restart. And of course, if you have a bunch of new installations to do on multiple machines, the time you'll end up saving becomes significant. Form Component improvements. There are two exciting new updates that boost flexibility in the Form Component: a new search component for its drop-down widget, and a file upload widget. These two new features mirror capabilities that already exist in Perspective, giving you the ability to perform these functions within the Form Component itself. As a result, it gives the Form Component more configurable functionality without having to depend on adjacent components. The new search component can be enabled/disabled and configured with different match and "no results found" behaviors. And for online forms, the new file upload widget gives you another UI design option for file submissions, with the ability to upload files embedded in the submission of a single form. New scripting APIs. 8.3.8 delivers a couple of handy scripting improvements. Inductive Automation, LLC has added a system.config scripting API to the Gateway scope. This exciting new feature lets you create, read, update, and delete Gateway configuration resources programmatically. Additionally, Inductive Automation, LLC has added and enhanced the system.secrets scripting API to work with the system.config scripting functions. The ability to manipulate profile resources programmatically adds a major bump of flexibility to Gateway configurations by allowing scripting alternatives to Gateway profile changes. Honorable mentions. Hang on! There are a few more new features in Ignition 8.3.8 that are worthy of a shout-out. Config persistence. In 8.3.8, the ConfigurationManager will now always log the active deployment mode (or lack thereof) during the startup phase of the Gateway. Overall, this new functionality will be especially helpful for troubleshooting. Event streams. In 8.3.8's Project Browser, an event stream now has a badge which reflects its status. The following states will be graphically expressed via badge: * Running * Unsaved Changes * Disabled * Faulted * Stopped This new feature will provide a convenience that's similar to Transaction Groups - helping you monitor large numbers of running event streams with just a quick glance. Sequential function charts. You can now use standard expression functionality (including the ability to pass in parameterized UDTs) in the SFC parallel block's cancel condition. Additionally, there are some handy new editor helpers to easily insert a tag, select from a list of operators, or select from a list of functions. Thanks to this new feature, you can now configure SFC cancel conditions to monitor the state of tag values, getting more flexibility with tag configurations. More new features are on their way! Find out more about the updates in 8.3.8 in the release notes and the Ignition user manual. And head over to the ideas portal to share your ideas (big or small) for new features that would make building in Ignition better. The 8.3.9 release train will be arriving before you know it, due to pull into the station in late August.

ESK now part of the Inductive Automation Integrator Program! 13 April 2026 ESK Control Ltd are pleased to share ESK Control Ltd is now part of the Inductive Automation Integrator Program at Credential level. The Credential is a solid step forward as ESK Control Ltd build out its capability with the Ignition platform. Ignition is more than a SCADA tool. It covers real-time data acquisition, historian connectivity, reporting, and visualisation across industrial operations. It reflects where ESK Control Ltd see modern OT heading: flexible, web-based architectures replacing legacy, heavyweight systems, with cybersecurity treated as a design principle, not an afterthought. That means proper network segmentation, controlled access, and reducing unnecessary exposure of control systems. These are areas too often overlooked in older setups. ESK Control Ltd is continuing to develop with Ignition, backed by Inductive Automation, while bringing experience from real-world industrial environments including oil & gas, utilities, food & beverage, manufacturing, water & wastewater, and transportation, where reliability and security both matter. If you're planning a new system, or looking to extend, modernise, or secure an existing one, happy to have a straight conversation. https://lnkd.in/ecTZy6bC hashtag#InductiveAutomation hashtag#OTCybersecurity hashtag#IndustrialAutomation