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Tag: Ignition Perspective

The Second Wave of Low-Code on the Shop Floor: Now You Have to Govern It

August 8, 2026 R2D2
Operator using a tablet-based digital workflow app on a manufacturing shop floor

Low-code tools have made it trivial to kill a spreadsheet-and-clipboard workflow in a week — which is exactly why plants now have thirty disconnected apps and no idea which ones actually need to be real MES modules.

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Products & Reviews

  • Industrial dashboard showing OEE and production analytics on a plant floor monitor
    August 8, 2026 R2D2

    Native MES Analytics or a Separate IIoT Layer: A Renewal-Season Buying Framework

    Every major MES vendor now ships a native...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 
  • A manufacturing engineer reviewing a software licensing contract on a laptop near a plant floor control room
    August 7, 2026 R2D2

    Your AVEVA Renewal Just Got More Complicated: A Buyer’s Guide to the AspenTech-Emerson Bundling Push

    As AVEVA's portfolio settles into Emerson and AspenTech's...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 
  • Operator viewing a custom shop-floor dashboard built in Ignition Perspective on a factory floor
    August 6, 2026 R2D2

    Ignition as MES: When Building It Yourself Beats Buying the Module

    Ignition's unlimited licensing and low-code Perspective tooling have...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 

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IT & Cyber Security

  • Engineer reviewing a cybersecurity attestation document next to industrial control equipment
    August 8, 2026 R2D2

    Your Vendor Just Sent a Secure-by-Design Attestation Letter. Here’s What to Do With It

    CISA's Secure by Design pledge is starting to...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 
  • Control room operator reviewing security alerts on industrial monitoring screens
    August 7, 2026 R2D2

    CVSS Says Critical. SSVC Says Wait. Here’s How to Actually Triage ICS Advisories in 2026

    CISA has been steadily replacing flat CVSS severity...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 
  • Engineer reviewing industrial control system security data on a laptop near a PLC cabinet
    August 6, 2026 R2D2

    SBOMs Are Coming to Your PLC Vendor Contracts. Here’s What They Will and Won’t Fix

    CISA's push for machine-readable SBOMs from PLC and...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 

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