2024 Sessions – Where Ideas Turn Into Innovation
Whether you’re looking for new features, VTScada fundamentals, industry best practices, or emerging technologies, we made sure that this year’s lineup covers a broad range of topics to help you reach your short and long-term goals.
Selected Recordings
Best Practices
Improve performance, resilience, and scalability while helping operators be more effective.
Cage Match! – Modbus vs. DNP3 vs. Sparkplug B
VTScada includes hundreds of communication protocols. The one you choose not only affects your hardware options, but can also enhance the ease of implementation, performance, resilience, and security of the system. Learn the pros and cons of polling vs. report by exception protocols and how each can affect your life.
How Toyota Determines Key Performance Indicators in a Sea of Datapoints
Toyota has fourteen manufacturing sites and over thirty non-manufacturing sites across North America. Jesse walks you through what Toyota is doing to streamline data collection for critical equipment. He will also demonstrate how VTScada is being used to support the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050.
Tips and Tricks
Adopt time-saving strategies and tools used by VTScada developers and engineers.
Watch as many or as few Tips & Tricks you like!
Full Session List
| SESSION TITLE | AUIDENCE | SUMMARY |
| Leveraging ISA Standards Into Excellent, Efficient, HMI Systems | ALL | If you want to improve various aspects of your HMI installations, including your graphics environment, alarm management, and overall usability and performance, then this is the session for you! Learn to leverage ISA’s standards to improve all aspects of your SCADA system. |
| Migration to VTScada | Intermediate | Seamlessly transition from your legacy system with minimal interruption. |
| Just Roll It Back | ALL | Easy to undo any configuration change, merge changes, or roll back to any version. *Requires a laptop with VTScada Version 12.1.39 pre-installed |
| Filtering Tags – Let Us Count the Ways | Intermediate | VTScada offers a variety of intuitive mechanisms to filter visible tags for any user, workstation, or operational situation. We’ll demonstrate each one and describe the situations where they are most applicable. |
| How Toyota Determines Key Performance Indicators in a Sea of Datapoints | ALL | Toyota has fourteen manufacturing sites and over thirty non-manufacturing sites across North America. Jesse walks you through what Toyota is doing to streamline data collection for critical equipment. He will also demonstrate how VTScada is being used to support the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050. |
| Principles of Implementing Solid Solutions | Intermediate to Advanced | Modern software allows us to tailor every aspect of our world. The more keystrokes required to build a system, even without writing code, the greater the risk it won’t work correctly or will become a maintenance nightmare over time. Our CTO shares what we have learned about creating big solutions that work. |
| Control your E-Motions and Re-Charge your Knowledge of Delta | ALL | Dave from Delta Electronics (Americas) demonstrates how their family of hardware solutions help you bring your customer’s goals to life. Topics will include PLCs, VFDs with embedded PLCs, servos vs. VFDs, servos for robots, and EV Chargers connected to PV inverters. |
| Best Practices | Intermediate | Improve performance, resilience, and scalability while helping operators be more effective. |
| Setting up Roles and Privileges | ALL | Learn how to set up user accounts for everyone who uses your system. *Requires a laptop with VTScada Version 12.1.39 pre-installed |
| I Have the Conn / Hey, I’m Working Here | Intermediate to Advanced | Ensure control actions made by an operator on one workstation are not contradicted by an operator somewhere else. Improve safety by preventing operators from running equipment during maintenance. |
| Tips and Tricks | ALL | Adopt time-saving strategies and tools used by VTScada developers and engineers. |
| Meet the New SI Partner Program | ALL | There are changes in the winds for the VTScada Certified Solutions Provider (CSP) Program to give greater benefits to advanced system integrators and reward those who actively help to make VTScada a success. |
| A Single-handed Success Story | ALL | Lee takes you on a journey that begins with a search for a more scalable SCADA software for the city’s wastewater treatment facility and leads to him single-handedly developing a fully featured VTScada application that would incorporate their septic truck drop off system and integrate with services like Itanta’s dashboarding and analytics platform. |
| A Layered Approach to Success | ALL | Would you like to reuse that helpful feature you just developed in future projects? How about adding a new widget to previously delivered systems? See how OEM Layers help you improve efficiency and streamline support by leveraging your hard work across multiple applications. |
| Enhanced Alarm Notifications Including VoIP (Voice over IP) | Intermediate | Alarm Notifications just keep getting better. In addition to enhanced rosters, VTScada’s VoIP support now goes beyond replacing modems and lets you configure hot backup and secure connections to cloud-based VoIP systems like Twilio. |
| Thin Client Server Setup | Intermediate to Advanced | This quick start guide will help you configure VTScada applications for remote access including a brief discussion of Firewalls, TLS/SSL, and VPNs. |
| Sneak Peak! The New VTScada Report Studio | ALL | Be among the first to see VTScada’s completely redesigned built-in report builder, an instantly intuitive way to generate scheduled and ad-hoc reports in PDF, HTML and Excel format. Attendees will get early access to this exciting new component. |
| Transforming Stormwater from a Challenge into an Asset | ALL | By integrating the most trusted control platform, VTScada, with stormwater-specific applications by Opti, communities can transform their stormwater management systems making them more resilient and sustainable. Dayton will demonstrate this approach at the City of Ormond Beach, Florida, where they are using Opti and VTScada to protect communities from flood risk. |
| Get the Most from the Alarms Page | ALL | Only using a few of VTScada’s Alarm features? Use the full toolset to build an effective alarm strategy based on ISA 18.2. Discover the new Alarm Suppression features that prevent unnecessary alarm activations, annunciations and notifications. |
| Cage Match! – Modbus vs. DNP3 vs. Sparkplug B | Intermediate to Advanced | VTScada includes hundreds of communication protocols. The one you choose not only affects your hardware options, but can also enhance the ease of implementation, performance, resilience, and security of the system. Learn the pros and cons of polling vs. report by exception protocols and how each can affect your life. |
| No SCADA is an Island | Intermediate | Build bridges that connect your process data with other Enterprise systems using ODBC, OPC, and REST. |
| Architectural Patterns | ALL | Different situations call for different approaches. VTScada offers a variety of capabilities that allow you to organize your system to match your current and future needs. We’ll look at different scenarios and how each one can be tailored for your unique application. |
| Get Right to the Root of the Problem | Advanced | Standard debugging tools help you spot performance bottlenecks and gather diagnostics for our support team. |
| Configuration Challenge | Advanced | Test your VTScada chops. Winner walks away with a trophy, prize, ticket to 2025, and bragging rights! *Requires a laptop with VTScada Version 12.1.39 and WebView2 installed pre-installed. |
| Select Before Operate | Intermediate to Advanced | The power industry (and others) have long had the notion of “select before operate”. Learn about the new features that support a variety of implementations of this concept that adds another layer of robustness to controls. |
| Hardening a Cyber Physical System Against a Modern Adversary | ALL | Ian outlines how to align VTScada systems with the cybersecurity standards required by most US critical infrastructure and roughly 40,000 private firms. He’ll cover resources you’ll need, management techniques that have worked, as well as case studies of small and large institutions that successfully completed this process. |
| How to Operate with All this Data (HDV) | ALL | Get to know VTScada’s native Historical Data Viewer (HDV). Learn to trend like a pro and easily export historical datasets. *Requires a laptop with VTScada Version 12.1.39 pre-installed. |