How Rain Engineering and Velotic Help Manufacturers Accelerate Digital Transformation with Proficy Software

Manufacturers today face increasing pressure to improve production efficiency, ensure product quality, reduce costs, and modernize legacy systems—all while maintaining business continuity.

For Rain Engineering, helping customers navigate these challenges requires more than technology implementation. It requires a strategic partnership that combines deep manufacturing expertise, proven software solutions, and long-term customer success.

That's why Rain Engineering partners with Velotic and the Proficy software portfolio to help manufacturers accelerate digital transformation, improve operational performance, and build scalable solutions that deliver value for years to come.

Watch Marcela Marquez, Executive Director of Customer Journey at Rain Engineering, explain how Rain works alongside Velotic's product, development, DevOps, and Customer Success teams to help manufacturers deploy Proficy solutions faster and achieve measurable business outcomes.

Rain Engineering works with manufacturers across Food & Beverage, Chemicals, Construction Materials, and other process manufacturing industries.

For Rain Engineering, Proficy software provides the flexibility, scalability, and extensibility required to support a wide range of manufacturing environments.

The team consistently recommends Proficy because it enables manufacturers to:

One of the biggest challenges manufacturers face when implementing software is balancing customization with long-term maintainability.

Many organizations require workflows, screens, integrations, or reporting capabilities that extend beyond out-of-the-box functionality. However, excessive customization often creates upgrade challenges and increases long-term costs.

Rain Engineering works closely with Velotic's product, development, DevOps, and Customer Success teams to help customers achieve both objectives.

Using modern APIs, REST services, and supported configuration methods, Rain Engineering develops solutions that address customer requirements while preserving future upgrade paths.

This collaborative approach allows manufacturers to gain the functionality they need today without limiting future expansion opportunities.

Rain Engineering values its close working relationship with multiple teams across Velotic.

The partnership includes collaboration with:

Product Management Teams

Aligning customer requirements with future product capabilities and roadmap priorities.

Development and DevOps Teams

Creating scalable solutions that leverage supported integrations, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.

Customer Success Managers

Accelerating issue resolution, improving product adoption, supporting training initiatives, and helping customers achieve measurable business outcomes.

This close collaboration helps bridge the gap between customer needs and product innovation.

Rain Engineering delivers end-to-end implementations across the Proficy portfolio, helping manufacturers connect data, optimize operations, and improve decision-making.

Rain Engineering frequently leads with Proficy Smart Factory MES to help customers:

To create a reliable industrial data foundation, Rain Engineering implements Proficy Historian to:

For manufacturers struggling with spreadsheets and legacy planning tools, Proficy Scheduler provides:

One of Rain Engineering's largest deployments involved a global chemical manufacturer implementing Proficy Smart Factory and Proficy Scheduler across more than 100 production sites worldwide.

To date, Rain Engineering has successfully deployed the solution at multiple facilities across the United States and international locations.

The implementation supports:

Orders are automatically downloaded from ERP systems into Proficy, production activities are managed through Proficy Smart Factory, and quality and traceability information is returned to enterprise systems for compliance and customer reporting.

By partnering closely with Velotic's product and development teams, Rain Engineering ensured the solution could be successfully deployed across diverse manufacturing environments while maintaining a consistent global architecture.

According to Rain Engineering, SaaS manufacturing software has fundamentally changed how manufacturers approach digital transformation initiatives.

Traditional on-premises deployments often require:

With SaaS deployments, manufacturers can focus on operational outcomes rather than infrastructure management.

For organizations deploying solutions across dozens—or even hundreds—of facilities, SaaS significantly reduces deployment complexity and accelerates time-to-value.

Benefits include:

The global chemical manufacturer highlighted in this story leveraged SaaS capabilities to accelerate deployment across its large manufacturing footprint while reducing long-term support requirements.

Rain Engineering also works closely with Velotic's Customer Success organization to help customers maximize the value of their software investments.

Together, the teams focus on:

This collaborative model helps manufacturers realize value faster while ensuring long-term success.

Rain Engineering uses Proficy software to help manufacturers move from assumptions to actionable insights.

Whether customers are focused on downtime reduction, quality improvement, OEE optimization, production scheduling, or traceability, Proficy provides the real-time operational intelligence needed to make informed decisions.

Examples include:

By combining Rain Engineering's implementation expertise with Proficy's industrial software capabilities, manufacturers can act faster, solve problems sooner, and improve operational performance.

Rain Engineering believes its partnership with Velotic goes beyond software implementation.

The ability to collaborate directly with product managers, development teams, DevOps specialists, and Customer Success Managers gives Rain Engineering a unique opportunity to influence product direction while helping customers achieve their desired outcomes.

That close relationship ultimately helps customers receive solutions that are more scalable, more innovative, and more aligned with their long-term business objectives.

Want to learn more about how Rain Engineering helps manufacturers maximize value from Proficy Software?

Hear directly from Marcela Marquez as she discusses:

Rain Engineering helps manufacturers improve operational performance through industrial automation, manufacturing execution systems (MES), industrial data management, production scheduling, and digital transformation services.

With expertise across process and discrete manufacturing environments, Rain Engineering partners with industry-leading technology providers like Velotic to help organizations modernize operations, improve visibility, and accelerate business outcomes.

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