Now accepting Virtual Factory applications

Put your operation at the
center of the proof.

A ProveIt! Virtual Factory supplies the real production scenarios and live data that solution teams build against — on shared infrastructure, in front of the room. No slides, no hype. Just your process, proven.

What is a Virtual Factory
Your real plant becomes the proving ground.

A Virtual Factory is a real production environment — modeled, simulated, and streamed onto a shared Unified Namespace. Instead of canned demo data, solution partners connect to your processes, your tags, and your constraints and prove their work against them, live.

You bring the process — a single line or several sites. ProveIt! brings the stage, the infrastructure, and the talent. The whole community watches real systems publish, subscribe, and act on real data — and the manufacturers in the seats leave knowing exactly what actually works.

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You define the use case

Your real process plus the specific problem you want solved — handed to the solution partners.
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We model the data

Your PLC / SCADA / MES / historian data, simulated onto a shared UNS.
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The community proves it

Teams connect live and demonstrate working solutions against your factory.
What we're looking for

Three things make a great Virtual Factory

You don't need a perfect data stack — you need a real process and a willingness to share it.

01 · The process

A real process

One or more production lines, processes, or facilities with enough depth to challenge solution teams — discrete, batch, continuous, packaging, utilities, you name it.

02 · The data

Data to work with

Existing automation and data infrastructure — PLCs, SCADA, MES, historians — that can be modeled or simulated for the event.

03 · The story

A story worth telling

A team willing to share the real constraints and goals behind the process, so the community solves problems that actually matter.

Why apply

It's not a sponsorship.
It's the best evaluation you'll ever get.

Being a Virtual Factory isn't a sales pitch and it isn't a sponsorship package — it's the most honest technology evaluation your team can get.

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Real solutions to real problems

Solution teams compete to solve your production challenges on live infrastructure — you walk away with working approaches, not brochures.

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Compare vendors side by side

Watch multiple teams tackle the same process on the same data, in the open. The fairest evaluation there is — and it's vendor-neutral.

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Take home a proven roadmap

You leave with working architectures and a clear path to implement them — built and validated against your own process, not a generic reference design you'd have to translate yourself.

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No sales pitch, no obligation

This isn't a sponsorship package and there's nothing to buy at the event. You bring the process and the data; the focus stays on solving it — not selling to you.

The Industry 4.0 community conference where solution partners don't pitch — they prove it, on real factories. Held annually at the Hilton Anatole, Dallas.

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