Ignition integration, architecture and rescue

See your whole system.
And know exactly where it stands.

New builds, multi-site architecture, SCADA/MES/ERP integration — and the systems nobody can fully explain any more. Built and rescued by engineers who helped build the platform.

Or read what a foundry did with it →

Ex-Inductive Automation team IA Premier Integrator Ignition Exchange Challenge Winner Featured in Modern Casting
What we do

Four ways we take on an Ignition system.

Most of our work is the whole system, or a large piece of it — projects that run for months, often across sites, and end with something commissioned, documented and running in production.

01 · Build

New systems, built end to end

Greenfield Ignition deployments and full platform replacements — architecture, development, testing, commissioning and handover. The engineer who scoped it is the one standing there at startup.

Architecture → build → commissioning → handover

02 · Support

Engineering alongside your team

The majority of what we do. Senior Ignition engineers working inside your project, to your standards and your schedule — adding capacity and depth without you hiring for it. Your system stays yours; we keep pace with it.

Embedded senior engineers · Your standards · Your backlog

03 · Integrate

The integration nobody else will take

The MES layer, the ERP interface, the multi-site rollout, the migration off an aging platform. When the hard part is the reason the whole project is stuck, that is usually what we get called for.

MES · ERP integration · Multi-site · Migrations

04 · Rescue

Systems in trouble

From a single stalled project to an enterprise platform nobody can account for any more. We come in cold, establish where the system actually stands, and take it from there — stabilization, completion, or a full rebuild of the parts that warrant it.

Triage → stabilize → complete · Any scale · Whoever built it


Ways to start

Or start with something smaller.

Three defined, fixed-fee engagements — a low-risk way to put senior engineers on your system before committing to anything bigger. Each is scoped on a short fit call, ends in a written result you own outright, and carries no obligation to use us for what follows.

START.01

Ignition Architecture Blueprint

Plan a new system, expansion, migration or multi-site rollout properly, before development accelerates.

Plan my architecture →

START.02

Ignition System Health Check

Independent senior review of what your own team has built — including work produced with AI assistance.

Review my system →

START.03

Ignition Rescue Assessment

The fixed-fee front end of a rescue: triage, a risk map and a prioritized stabilization plan, in one to two weeks.

Assess my project →

Not sure which fits, or whether you need one at all? That is what the fit call is for. Talk to an engineer →

The opportunity

You're collecting the data. We help you act on it.

Every plant floor generates more information than anyone can read by hand. We turn it into the answers you run the business on — before the problem shows up on the P&L.

01

Predict and prevent downtime

Surface the failure signature before the line stops — so maintenance happens on your schedule, not the equipment's.

02

Unlock capacity you already own

Find the hidden hours inside equipment you've already bought, without capital spend on new production lines.

03

Cut scrap at the source

Trace defects back to the exact process conditions that caused them, and hold the good window.

04

See the whole plant at once

One live view across cells, lines, and sites — the number is the same whether you're on the floor or at HQ.

05

Answer questions in seconds

Ask your operation a plain-English question and get an answer grounded in your real data, not a guess.

06

Connect the floor to the office

Bridge SCADA, MES, and ERP so the shop floor and the finance office finally reconcile to one truth.


Case study // Foundry 4.0
FERROLOY · WICHITA, KS

A foundry set hard targets on its own data — and hit them

The data was always there. It just lived on paper — recorded by hand, then never used.

After a Foundry 4.0 session at CastExpo, owner Mark Soucie asked Artek what a data-driven foundry would take. Artek scoped the plant infrastructure required to connect Ignition to the equipment; once Ferroloy had it in place, the build moved fast. The targets set at kickoff — and since reached:

  • TGT.01Unlock 25–30% of latent capacity with no new production equipment
  • TGT.02Reduce scrap by 30–35%
  • TGT.03Measure and reduce unplanned downtime
  • TGT.04Monetize new data sources
The engagement
  • ClientFerroloy — Wichita, KS
  • OwnerMark Soucie · ex-CFO, acquired 2017
  • SectorIron foundry · AFS member
  • VisionLEAN + predictive maintenance, driven by data
  • SystemIgnition-based Foundry 4.0 platform
  • PublishedModern Casting, March 2026
Read the full case study

TARGETS SET AT KICKOFF · CONFIRMED REACHED BY FERROLOY’S OWNER, 2026

How it works
AI moves fast.
A human stays accountable.

We use AI to accelerate how we build, and to surface insight from your data. A senior engineer designs, reviews, tests, and commissions everything that touches live equipment.

The system we deploy is the same deterministic Ignition logic it has always been. Reads first, writes gated, nothing autonomous touching live equipment. You get the speed of modern tooling with the accountability of an engineer who signs their name to the commissioning report.

Read how AI and Ignition fit together →

We build for the community

We give the Ignition community our best work for free. Then customers hire the team that built it for the heavy lifting.

Reputation compounds when you give in the open. It's why we've won the Exchange Challenge twice, and why our tools are free for anyone to use.

EXCHANGE

Ignition Exchange Challenge — winner, both years entered

Top-tier reusable resources the community actually downloads and runs. See the resources →

VIDEO

The Artek how-to library

Practical Ignition tutorials that made us a name engineers recognize before we ever pick up the phone. Watch on YouTube ↗

Explore the community hub

Why Artek
We helped build the platform.
Now we build on it better than anyone.

Three of our team — both owners included — come from Inductive Automation. We hold Premier Integrator status. We've proven it in the places other integrators avoid: foundries, water, data centers, and the genuinely complex systems.

A senior team, end to end — the engineer who scopes your system is the engineer who builds and commissions it. The depth is real and the tooling is ahead.


Proof

What we can put behind that.

No borrowed logos, no anonymous quotes. Just the things you can go and verify for yourself before you call us.

Let's talk

Tell us where your
system actually is.

Talk to an engineer — not a salesperson. Twenty minutes, and you'll leave knowing what the honest next step is, even if it isn't us.

Talk to an engineer
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