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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Proficy Smart Factory MES: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes.md",
  "title": "Proficy Smart Factory MES: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Proficy Smart Factory MES is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 28, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 11, 2025 to July 28, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "CGD3AJ5",
    "slug": "proficy-smart-factory-mes",
    "name": "Proficy Smart Factory MES",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems",
    "summary": "\"Proficy Smart Factory is the only MES on the market that can deliver value across all types of manufacturing operations (process, discrete, diverse/mixed).\" It is the Proficy Plant Applications MES, sold as SaaS or on premises to plant and production teams, now owned by TPG. The AI today: the Proficy Smart Factory 2026 release adds AI-powered MES capabilities, and the 2026 roadmap shows Chat with Proficy MES, an MES Configuration Assistant and an MCP server.",
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    "categories": [
      "mes"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "MES and operations management"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Proficy Smart Factory is the only MES on the market that can deliver value across all types of manufacturing operations (process, discrete, diverse/mixed).\" It is the Proficy Plant Applications MES, sold as SaaS or on premises to plant and production teams, now owned by TPG. The AI today: the Proficy Smart Factory 2026 release adds AI-powered MES capabilities, and the 2026 roadmap shows Chat with Proficy MES, an MES Configuration Assistant and an MCP server.",
    "source": {
      "name": "gevernova.com",
      "url": "https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "manufacturing-operations-software",
      "title": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Proficy Smart Factory MES",
      "site": "https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems",
      "category": "MES and operations management",
      "what": "\"Proficy Smart Factory is the only MES on the market that can deliver value across all types of manufacturing operations (process, discrete, diverse/mixed).\" It is the Proficy Plant Applications MES, sold as SaaS or on premises to plant and production teams, now owned by TPG. The AI today: the Proficy Smart Factory 2026 release adds AI-powered MES capabilities, and the 2026 roadmap shows Chat with Proficy MES, an MES Configuration Assistant and an MCP server.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "gevernova.com",
        "url": "https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Assistant",
          "MCP or agent API"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Proficy serves more than 20,000 customers (GE Vernova release); TPG bought the business for $600 million, closed 2026-03-02)",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "gevernova.com",
          "url": "https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems"
        },
        {
          "name": "gevernova.com",
          "url": "https://gevernova.com/software/resources/webinar/proficy-smart-factory-2026-building-predictive-agile-manufacturing"
        },
        {
          "name": "gevernova.com",
          "url": "https://gevernova.com/software/resources/webinar/proficy-2026"
        },
        {
          "name": "iiot-world.com",
          "url": "https://iiot-world.com/smart-manufacturing/ai-agents-mes-beyond-chatbot"
        },
        {
          "name": "gevernova.com",
          "url": "https://gevernova.com/news/press-releases/tpg-to-acquire-ge-vernovas-proficy-manufacturing-software-business"
        },
        {
          "name": "gevernova.com",
          "url": "https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/ge-vernova-completes-sale-proficyr-software-business"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-07-28",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Proficy AI roadmap names Chat with Proficy MES and an MES Configuration Assistant",
      "summary": "A report of GE Vernova's Accelerate 2026 session lists a Proficy AI roadmap: natural-language Chat with Proficy MES, a Smart Factory MES Configuration Assistant, and an MCP server and client across MES, Historian and SCADA.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "IIoT World",
        "url": "https://iiot-world.com/smart-manufacturing/ai-agents-mes-beyond-chatbot"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-09-11",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "TPG agrees to buy Proficy from GE Vernova for $600 million",
      "summary": "GE Vernova and TPG signed a binding agreement for TPG to acquire the Proficy software business, which includes MES, HMI/SCADA, historian and analytics. GE Vernova said it would focus on grid and electrification software.",
      "kind": "Acquisition",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://gevernova.com/news/press-releases/tpg-to-acquire-ge-vernovas-proficy-manufacturing-software-business"
      }
    }
  ]
}