- Is edge control going to exist?
Is this going to exist?
So, I believe this is gonna exist.
So, now I've got my mobile device,
which is a node in the ecosystem.
Can I control through the Cloud down to the PLC?
Yes, I can.
What happens if this breaks?
We have five-nines uptime on the win,
by the way. - [Student] H5 becomes
your physical push buttons.
- Becomes our physical, it becomes our physical connection
to the process control, right.
But everything else up here,
everything else is up here.
All of these functionalities,
they may not even be applications,
they may be one solution.
They may all just be a single solution.
We use Ignition as that gateway for all of this stuff.
Our ERP system is built in Ignition here.
Our MES system, MES 4.0 is built in Ignition.
SCADA is built in Ignition.
We write machine-learning algorithms in Ignition.
Why are we Ignition fans?
Because they were the first company,
I mean, and really, they rebelled against
Wonderware and FactoryTalk, they were upset
with the way the direction that those companies were going.
They built the platform,
the first truly open and unlimited platform.
And that's why we became Ignition fans.
Is Ignition still light-years
ahead of the competition today?
- [Student] No.
- They're not. - [Student] Not as much
as they were. - Not as much as they were.
Six years ago, there was no one even remotely close.
Six years ago, Ignition was,
Inductive Automation was a decade ahead of everyone else.
Today, there are companies that have closed the gap.
Is Ignition still the best platform out there?
No question.
But do they have contemporaries that are very, very close?
No doubt about it,
and it's only gonna get closer and closer and closer.
So this, when we talk about the IIoT part,
I can tell based on some of the questions
that come back in, that come into the LinkedIn channel,
especially from legacy integrators,
they just don't understand the value.
And that's why we keep trying to attack
the value of IIoT from a lot of different angles, right.
I don't believe this is ever gonna go away,
I never, I do not believe that you are gonna
get rid of this layer.
You're gonna get rid of this layer in process control.
Now, we're talking about equipment control.
Okay, I'm not talking about the thermostat at my house.
We're talking about the equipment control,
where I'm gonna push a button on my phone,
and we're gonna publish into the Cloud,
and it's gonna go directly to my sensor.
It's gonna go to my sensor and it's gonna change
a set point on my temperature control.
I do not believe we're gonna do that
without having a secure edge,
a secure edge module that has edge process control
in the event that this all goes down.
I don't believe we're gonna,
I don't think we're gonna go there.
In fact, I just can't imagine, the liability's too high.
Right, people can die.
The equipment can kill people.
But all of the data consumption, processing and analytics,
all that's done here.
And it's probably all gonna be one app.
I mean everything.
Your ERP, your accounting, your general ledger.
- [Student] The Amazon abomination.
- Yeah, exactly.
And here's another thing,
think about how fast technology moves
and whether or not we're right or wrong.
I live here in Dallas
and in Dallas we have four Amazon distribution centers.
Okay, so, and I think,
I don't think any other city has more DCs
than we do for Amazon.
So we get all the cool stuff first.
We got the drone delivery first,
we got Prime Now, was first here in Dallas.
Anybody here who uses,
I don't know if anybody uses Prime Now on the channel,
but Prime Now, basically, we get one hour delivery.
So here in our office, we order our supplies
from Amazon from our phone,
and we go down, "Hey, I need 10 cans of soup,
"I need two packs of Monster, I need four things
"of hazelnut creamer, coffee cups, K-Cups."
You name it, "I need printer paper, I need..."
We do that on our phone, we hit purchase,
and in one hour, someone walks through the front door
and sets all the bags down.
And during that time,
during that time, from when I push order,
to when it's delivered to me,
I know where all of my items are in real time,
as that person is traveling across the city
to come deliver my stuff.
If that doesn't illustrate to people
how quickly technology moves and what the capabilities
of technology are, I don't know what could.
That is a commercial IIoT case study.
That's what that is, 'kay.
Anyway, that was a completely
different rant that I didn't...