July 31, 2025

Inductive Automation has released Ignition v8.3, and Grantek is ready to help you maximize a new suite of tools and features to improve your operations. This new version of Ignition greatly improves the versatile SCADA platform with more digital tools to help transition to a paperless production floor; allowing for easier integration, more functionality and faster results.

With over 4 decades of experience helping food & beverage, CPG and life sciences companies navigate complex manufacturing challenges, Grantek is has developed a close partnership with Inductive Automation. With many Grantek clients knowing and trusting Ignition, this new version will allow them to do more with this great tool, while also positioning them for scalable benefits that will eventually help integrate their operations beyond the production floor. Compliance, be it CRF 21 Part 11 or Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), will be much easier to achieve and maintain with Ignition v8.3 and Grantek.

Click Here to Connect with Grantek to Discuss How Ignition v8.3 Can Help Your Operations

How Ignition v8.3 Will Help Your Operations:
• Do More With The Ignition You Already Use: New Historian Features Now Included with Ignition v8.3.
• Easier Integration: Use Ignition v8.3 to Connect Systems and Integrate Across the Production Floor and Corporate Interfaces.
• Smarter Alarming: Alarms That Provide Insight, and Do More Than Just Send Email Alerts.
• Faster Results: Stand-Up Projects Quicker, and See Tangible Results Sooner.

What Ignition v8.3 Offers:
• Productivity: Drawing Tools and Event Streams
• Clipboard & Paper Replacement: Online and Offline Forms
• Business Systems Integration: Event Streams
• Scaling: Time Series Historian, Open API, Containers, Version Control & DevOps
• Small to Medium Architecture Simplification: QuestDB Internal Historian
• Change Tracking & Version Control: Source Control Support and Deployment Modes
• IT Productivity: Open API
• Modern Architecture Support: Containers and Helm Charts
• Security: Secrets Management

Inductive Automation is a supplier of web-based industrial automation software based in Folsom, CA. Grantek holds the rare Premier Integrator and Enterprise Integrator distinctions with Inductive Automation due to our strong thought leadership and repeatable methodology for delivering successful projects built on the Ignition platform. Our team includes dozens of engineers across North America who are trained and certified in Ignition and the accompanying MES modules by Sepasoft.

In 2023, Inductive Automation awarded Grantek a Firebrand Award. Firebrand Awards are presented annually to projects that went above and beyond using innovative applications of Ignition by Inductive Automation.

About Grantek
For over 40 years, top manufacturers in Food & Beverage, CPG and Life Sciences/Pharmaceuticals have called upon Grantek to solve their most complex business and manufacturing challenges. Grantek automates Pharmaceutical and Food & Beverage manufacturing operations, including integration with business systems for seamless solutions. Grantek helps customers meet the stringent requirements and challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Grantek is a system integrator and solution provider with a specialization in Smart Manufacturing solutions, Manufacturing Automation solutions, Industrial IT/Cybersecurity solutions and Manufacturing Consulting services. Grantek holds the rare Premier Integrator and Enterprise Integrator distinctions with Inductive Automation due to our strong thought leadership and repeatable methodology for delivering successful projects built on the Ignition platform.