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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.

01 · Build

New systems, built end to end

New Ignition systems and full platform replacements, from architecture through commissioning and handover. The engineer who scoped it is the one there at startup.

Architecture → build → commissioning → handover

02 · Support

Engineering alongside your team

Most of what we do. Senior Ignition engineers inside your project, to your standards and schedule. Your system stays yours.

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 why the project is stuck, that's usually when we get the call.

MES · ERP integration · Multi-site · Migrations

04 · Rescue

Systems in trouble

From one stalled project to a platform nobody can account for. We come in cold, find out where it stands, and take it from there.

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


Ways to start

Or start with something smaller.

Three defined engagements: a low-risk way to put senior engineers on your system before committing to anything bigger. Each ends in a written result you own, with no obligation to use us for what follows.

START.01

Ignition Architecture Blueprint

Plan a new system, expansion, migration or multi-site rollout before development speeds up.

Plan my architecture →

START.02

Ignition® MRI

A free Machine Risk Inspection of your gateway: send one backup, get every risk we found, ranked by severity and rated for effort to fix, in five business days.

Get my free MRI →

START.03

Ignition Rescue Assessment

When a free MRI isn't enough: triage with your people, a risk map and a sequenced, costed plan, in one to two weeks.

Assess my project →

Not sure which fits? That's 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 produces more information than anyone can read by hand. We turn it into the answers you run the business on.

01

Predict and prevent downtime

Spot the failure pattern before the line stops, so maintenance happens on your schedule.

02

Unlock capacity you already own

Find the hidden hours in equipment you already own.

03

Cut scrap at the source

Trace defects back to the process conditions that caused them.

04

See the whole plant at once

One live view across cells, lines, and sites. The number is the same on the floor and at HQ.

05

Answer questions in seconds

Ask your operation a plain-English question and get an answer from your real data.

06

Connect the floor to the office

Connect SCADA, MES, and ERP so the floor and the office agree on 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 infrastructure; 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 build faster and to find insight in your data. A senior engineer designs, reviews, tests, and commissions everything that touches live equipment.

What we deploy is the same predictable Ignition logic it has always been. Reads first, writes gated, nothing autonomous touching live equipment. You get modern speed with an engineer who signs 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.

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

EXCHANGE

Ignition Exchange Challenge — winner, both years entered

Reusable resources the community actually downloads and runs. See the resources →

VIDEO

The Artek how-to library

Practical Ignition tutorials 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, came from Inductive Automation. We hold Premier Integrator status. We've proven it in the places other integrators avoid: foundries, water, data centers, and the truly complex systems.


Proof

What we can put behind that.

No borrowed logos, no anonymous quotes. Things you can verify before you call.

Let's talk

Tell us where your
system actually is.

Talk to an engineer. Twenty minutes, and you'll know the honest next step, even if it isn't us.

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