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.

You define the use case

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

We model the data

Your PLC / SCADA / MES / historian data, simulated onto a shared UNS.

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.

Real solutions to real problems

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

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.

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.

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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