Introducing Velotic: Pioneering the Future of Industrial Software (from GE Vernova Proficy, PTC ThingWorx and Kepware)

For years, industrial software has largely been organized around categories: SCADA. MES. Historian. Industrial IoT. Connectivity. Analytics.

Each category solved a specific problem. But as manufacturing environments became more connected, those categories also created new boundaries - between systems, teams, workflows, and decisions.

Manufacturers today do not need more software categories. They need industrial operations to work together more intelligently.

A production issue should not require teams to jump between disconnected systems to understand what happened. A maintenance decision should not depend on manually piecing together signals from multiple environments. Industrial data should not lose meaning every time it crosses between systems, applications, or teams.

The future of industrial operations will not be defined by how many systems companies deploy. It will be defined by how effectively insight, context, and decision-making move across the organization.

That shift is driving a new generation of expectations for industrial software that:

It is within this context that Velotic industrial software was created. Velotic is a new independent industrial software company bringing together Proficy Software, formerly part of GE Vernova, along with ThingWorx and Kepware, formerly part of PTC.

These technologies bring deep expertise across industrial operations, industrial connectivity, industrial IoT, and AI-enabled intelligence. But Velotic is not simply bringing multiple product portfolios together under a new brand.

The broader goal is to create a more focused and open industrial software company designed to help manufacturers build operations that are smarter, more coordinated, and increasingly predictive - without forcing them into closed ecosystems or rigid operational models.

Velotic was not created from a blank slate. It was built on decades of industrial software experience and technologies already trusted across manufacturing, utilities, infrastructure, and other complex operating environments worldwide.

Proficy Software has long supported manufacturers and industrial organizations operating complex environments where visibility, reliability, control, and operational continuity are critical.

Proficy industrial software includes technologies spanning HMI SCADA software, historian and industrial data management, manufacturing execution systems, planning and scheduling, industrial analytics, and operational visualization.

These solutions are already deeply embedded in industrial operations across manufacturing, utilities, transportation, water and wastewater, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and other high-consequence industries.

What makes Proficy valuable has never been simply the software itself. It is the operational understanding behind it - software designed for environments where downtime, inefficiency, poor visibility, or delayed decisions have real consequences.

Velotic builds on that foundation while expanding the role industrial software can play across increasingly data-driven and interconnected environments. For existing Proficy customers, the transition to Velotic represents continuity in the technologies they already trust, alongside a broader vision for more connected and predictive industrial operations.

Velotic also brings together Kepware and ThingWorx from PTC.

Kepware is one of the most widely recognized industrial connectivity platforms in manufacturing because it solves a foundational challenge: making industrial data usable across highly diverse environments.

Industrial operations rarely operate within a single standardized architecture. Plants evolve over decades. New production lines are layered onto legacy infrastructure. Different vendors, protocols, control systems, and assets coexist across sites and regions.

Kepware helps bridge those environments by securely connecting industrial devices, PLCs, sensors, control systems, and other operational assets into a more usable data foundation. In many industrial environments, connectivity is not just a technical layer - it is what allows information, context, and coordination to move across systems in the first place.

ThingWorx contributes a different but equally important capability.

While industrial software has historically focused heavily on control systems and data collection, ThingWorx helps organizations operationalize that information through industrial IoT applications, orchestration, and AI-enabled capabilities across connected industrial environments.

That may include applications for asset effectiveness, worker guidance, remote operations, industrial visibility, or contextualized workflows that help industrial teams respond faster, collaborate more effectively, and connect data more directly to action across systems and sites.

Together, Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx create a more unified industrial software ecosystem spanning industrial connectivity, industrial operations, industrial IoT applications, and AI-enabled insight. Instead of treating data access, visualization, workflows, and analytics as isolated layers, Velotic’s vision is to help manufacturers create environments where information moves more naturally between systems, teams, and decisions.

Velotic is not simply defined by the technologies it brings together. The company is also built around a different philosophy for industrial software - one centered on openness, flexibility, and helping manufacturers move toward more predictive operations without forcing them into rigid ecosystems or one-size-fits-all architectures.

Velotic was created as a pure-play industrial software company focused entirely on industrial operations. That distinction matters more than ever.

Many industrial software vendors are balancing hardware businesses, competing product priorities, legacy portfolio complexity, or broader corporate agendas. Velotic’s focus is narrower and more direct: helping manufacturers improve operational performance.

That pure-play focus creates advantages beyond branding.

It allows faster decision-making, more focused innovation, greater agility, and tighter alignment between customer challenges and product direction. It also creates greater flexibility for customers operating heterogeneous industrial environments where no single vendor ecosystem fully reflects reality.

Manufacturers increasingly want software partners that integrate into their operations rather than forcing operations to adapt around proprietary ecosystems. Velotic’s approach is designed around that reality.

Industrial operations do not start from scratch.

Most manufacturers are operating a mix of legacy infrastructure, modern systems, specialized assets, technologies, and site-specific workflows developed over years - sometimes decades - of manufacturing evolution.

In many cases, those environments cannot simply be rebuilt from scratch without significant cost, disruption, operational risk, or loss of institutional knowledge. Therefore, modernization cannot depend entirely on rip-and-replace strategies. That is why Velotic emphasizes openness, interoperability, and hardware-agnostic integration.

The goal is not to force manufacturers into closed ecosystems or dictate operational architectures. The goal is to help industrial organizations connect, contextualize, and operationalize information across the environments they already operate.

This openness gives manufacturers greater flexibility to:

In industries constantly shaped by change, flexibility itself becomes a strategic advantage.

Many industrial environments are rich in data but poor in continuity. Information exists everywhere, yet teams still spend significant time reconstructing what is happening across disconnected systems, workflows, and operational domains.

The challenge is rarely access to data alone. The challenge is preserving operational context as information moves across systems and teams.

For example, a temperature alarm on a machine may require very different responses depending on whether the line is already operating near capacity, maintenance was recently performed, a production changeover is underway, or similar issues are occurring elsewhere in the facility.

Velotic’s broader strategy is centered around helping manufacturers connect information across systems, workflows, and teams so operators, engineers, maintenance, and leadership can understand problems faster and respond more effectively.

Kepware helps connect industrial environments and normalize data from highly diverse systems. Proficy helps monitor, control, visualize, and analyze industrial operations in real time. ThingWorx helps orchestrate workflows, applications, and connected operational experiences that bridge data with action.

Together, these technologies help manufacturers move beyond isolated signals and fragmented workflows toward environments where insight can flow more naturally across systems, teams, and decisions. That shift matters because operational coordination is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage in today’s manufacturing.

Industrial operations have historically been reactive by necessity. Teams respond to downtime after it occurs. Maintenance often happens after failures emerge. Inefficiencies are discovered after performance declines. Data is collected, but not always operationalized in time to drive action.

Velotic’s long-term vision is centered around helping manufacturers move beyond that model. Our strategy around AI and analytics is not simply about adding more automation. It is about helping industrial teams operate with greater foresight, clarity, and confidence.

That includes enabling both autonomous and augmented operations.

In some environments, AI may increasingly support autonomous actions when confidence is high and operational value is clear. Predictive maintenance recommendations, process optimization, alarm pattern analysis, scheduling adjustments, and quality anomaly detection are all examples where AI can help organizations identify issues earlier and respond more effectively.

In many other environments, the more immediate opportunity is augmented operations - helping operators, engineers, planners, and maintenance teams make better decisions through improved visibility, contextualized guidance, and operational intelligence delivered within the flow of work.

This distinction is important because industrial operations are not abstract digital systems. They are real operating environments where safety, uptime, reliability, and human expertise remain essential.

Velotic’s approach is not about replacing teams. It is about combining artificial intelligence with the authentic intelligence that teams develop through real-world operational experience – improving decisions, coordination, and performance.

For decades, industrial software was largely deployed as separate layers: connectivity, control systems, historians, applications, analytics, and reporting tools operating independently from one another. But industrial operations are becoming too dynamic and interconnected for those boundaries to remain rigid.

Modern manufacturing environments increasingly depend on information moving fluidly across systems, sites, workflows, and decisions. Data generated at the edge must support faster response, better visibility, and more adaptive decision-making across the broader enterprise.

That evolution is changing the architecture of industrial software itself.

Velotic views this evolution through the lens of AIoT - the convergence of AI with industrial IoT, operational systems, contextualized industrial data, and analytics into more integrated industrial environments.

In that world, systems such as HMI/SCADA, historians, MES, and scheduling platforms remain foundational. But the value increasingly comes from how those systems work together.

Velotic believes this shift will move industrial software beyond isolated tools and toward more adaptive environments capable of continuously learning and improving as manufacturing conditions evolve.

Velotic was created around the belief that manufacturers need a different kind of industrial software company for the future ahead.

Built from the trusted foundations of Proficy Software from GE Vernova and ThingWorx and Kepware from PTC, Velotic combines industrial connectivity, industrial automation software, industrial IoT, and AI-enabled intelligence into a more focused and open approach to manufacturing operations.

For existing Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx customers, that means continuity alongside expanded integration, increased focus, and continued innovation across the technologies they already rely on.

But the larger opportunity extends beyond any individual platform.

As manufacturers continue modernizing operations, adopting AI, and building more connected environments, the companies that succeed will increasingly need systems that can adapt alongside operational reality - not force industrial organizations into rigid architectures or isolated technology stacks.

Velotic’s mission is to provide these systems so manufacturers can build brighter with operations that are smarter, more open, and better prepared for what’s ahead.