# Proficy Smart Factory MES: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/proficy-smart-factory-mes/
Covers: Sept. 11, 2025 to July 28, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, 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

> 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.

"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: [gevernova.com](https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems).

## Facts

- Site: [gevernova.com](https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems)
- Category: MES and operations management
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes)

"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: [gevernova.com](https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems).

- Category: MES and operations management
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Assistant and MCP or agent API
- 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)

Sources: [gevernova.com](https://www.gevernova.com/software/products/manufacturing-execution-systems), [gevernova.com](https://gevernova.com/software/resources/webinar/proficy-smart-factory-2026-building-predictive-agile-manufacturing), [gevernova.com](https://gevernova.com/software/resources/webinar/proficy-2026), [iiot-world.com](https://iiot-world.com/smart-manufacturing/ai-agents-mes-beyond-chatbot), [gevernova.com](https://gevernova.com/news/press-releases/tpg-to-acquire-ge-vernovas-proficy-manufacturing-software-business) and [gevernova.com](https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/ge-vernova-completes-sale-proficyr-software-business).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Proficy AI roadmap names Chat with Proficy MES and an MES Configuration Assistant

Launch, July 28, 2026. 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.

Source: [IIoT World](https://iiot-world.com/smart-manufacturing/ai-agents-mes-beyond-chatbot). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes).

### TPG agrees to buy Proficy from GE Vernova for $600 million

Acquisition, Sept. 11, 2025. 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.

Source: [Vendor release](https://gevernova.com/news/press-releases/tpg-to-acquire-ge-vernovas-proficy-manufacturing-software-business). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-proficy-smart-factory-mes).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology