Inductive Automation Unveils Ignition 2027 With AI and Historian Upgrades

Ignition 2027 from Inductive Automation includes AI functions, improved visualization features, and a new enterprise historian in the industrial software platform. The product becomes publicly available in Feb 2027.

Key Highlights

• AI: New Ignition Catalyst framework with Core 
• Visualization: 16 new Perspective chart components.
• Historian: Enterprise Historian built on TimescaleDB with Tiger Data.

What Has Been Announced

Ignition 2027 makes use of the recent platform modifications made in version 8.3 and provides AI support directly into the engineering process. Catalyst Core provides facilities for scripting, SQL, diagnostics and application development, while Catalyst Agent allows for the use of specific AI agents performing operational technology assignments.

The release upgrades Perspective charting, introduces an Enterprise Historian and adds improvements to redundancy, data acquisition, enterprise deployment and security. The platform supports AI providers including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and self-hosted options such as Ollama.