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Premier Ignition Integrator in Folsom, California, since 2020

We design and build the software that runs your plant.

We build SCADA, MES and custom web applications for manufacturers, water and wastewater utilities, food and beverage plants, data centers and foundries.

Or read how a foundry reached its targets →

Founded in 2020 by former Inductive Automation engineers Premier Integrator Exchange Challenge winner, twice Featured in Modern Casting
What we do

Most of our work is whole-system projects.

Smaller projects are often finished in under two months. Larger ones run across several plants or sites. Each ends with a system that is commissioned, documented and in production, and the engineer who scopes it carries it through startup.

Build

New systems

New Ignition systems, full replacements of existing ones, and custom web applications in React. We design the architecture, build and commission the system, and hand it over with documentation your staff can work from.

Support

Engineers on your team

Most of our engineering hours go here. Senior Ignition engineers join your project and work to your standards, schedule and backlog. When the work ends, the system is still yours.

Integrate

Complex integrations

MES, ERP, multi-site rollouts, and migrations from Wonderware, FactoryTalk or an older version of Ignition. We are usually brought in when this part of the work is what stopped the project.

Rescue

Systems in trouble

One stalled project, or a whole platform that no one can explain anymore. We establish where it stands, then either finish it or give you a plan your own team can follow.


Smaller first steps

Three smaller ways to start.

Each one ends with a written deliverable that you keep, whether or not you hire us afterward.

Free · 5 business days

Ignition® MRI

Send us one gateway backup. In five business days you receive every risk we found, ranked by severity and by the effort needed to fix it.

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Fixed fee · 1–2 weeks

Ignition Rescue Assessment

For a system that has stalled or that no one can explain. We interview the people who operate it, observe it running, and deliver a costed plan with the work in the order it should be done.

Assess my project →

Fixed fee

Ignition Architecture Blueprint

For a new system, an expansion, a migration or a multi-site rollout. We settle the architecture before anyone starts building, and write it so any team can build from it.

Plan my architecture →

If you're not sure which one fits, call us at (877) 318-0200 and we'll connect you with the right engineer.

Industries

Where we've done the work.

Each page describes systems we built. Most of our customers can't be named, so we describe the work instead.

Manufacturing

Factory MES rolled out plant by plant, OEE and andon, SPC, and ERP integration.

Manufacturing →

Water and wastewater

Perspective SCADA modernization, operator logbooks, alarm dashboards and remote sites.

Water and wastewater →

Food and beverage

OEE on packaging and bottling lines, QA checks, and plant floor data that matches the ERP.

Food and beverage →

Data centers

Electrical and mechanical monitoring, device templates from register lists, PUE reporting.

Data centers →

Life sciences

Part 11 recipe management and batch records, and how we approach a regulated plant.

Life sciences →

Foundries

Melt, pour and scrap traced to their causes, by engineers who came from foundries.

Foundries →


Case study
Ferroloy, Wichita, Kansas

An iron foundry set four targets at kickoff and reached them

Before the project, most of Ferroloy's production data was written down by hand and never looked at again.

After a Foundry 4.0 session at CastExpo, owner Mark Soucie asked us what it would take to run his foundry on data. We scoped the infrastructure, Ferroloy put it in place, and our foundry engineers led the build. These are the targets we set together at kickoff:

  • Capacity25–30% more from the equipment they already had
  • Scrap30–35% less
  • DowntimeMeasure unplanned downtime and bring it down
  • DataMake money from data they weren't collecting
The engagement
  • ClientFerroloy, Wichita, Kansas
  • OwnerMark Soucie, a former CFO who bought it in 2017
  • SectorIron foundry, AFS member
  • GoalLean manufacturing and predictive maintenance, run on data
  • Built onIgnition
  • PublishedModern Casting, March 2026
Read the case study →

Mark Soucie confirmed in 2026 that Ferroloy reached its targets.

How we use AI
An engineer signs off on everything that touches your equipment.

We use AI to write code faster and to look through process data. A senior engineer designs, reviews, tests and commissions everything that touches live equipment.

What runs on your gateway is ordinary, predictable Ignition logic. It reads before it writes, writes are gated, and nothing runs on its own against live equipment. The engineer's name goes on the commissioning report.

How we use AI with Ignition →

Free tools

We publish free Ignition tools and videos.

Many engineers know our work from these resources before they first contact us.

EXCHANGE

Ignition Exchange Challenge: winner twice, second place in 2026

Ignition resources that engineers download and run in their own plants. See the resources →

VIDEO

How-to videos

Practical Ignition tutorials on our YouTube channel. Watch on YouTube ↗

MODULE

Artek-MCP

A free Ignition module that gives an AI assistant read access to your gateway. It stays read-only unless you enable writes. Get the module →

All our free tools →

Who we are
Our founders were engineers at Inductive Automation.

Jerry Eppler and Jae Park were engineers at Inductive Automation before founding Artek in 2020. Our Director of Delivery joins discovery meetings so that what we promise matches what you need, and runs delivery on most of our projects. Three of our engineers came from foundries. One of them spent more than 20 years at Huron Casting, where his Ignition project won an Inductive Automation Firebrand Award in 2014.

More about us →


Proof

Facts you can check before you contact us.

Each of these is public, or written into our contracts.

Let's talk

Tell us what you're working with.

Call us and we'll connect you with the right engineer. If we're not the right fit for the work, we'll tell you.

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(877) 318-0200
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