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Cloudcraft vs GE Proficy Smart Factory MES comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudcraft
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
40th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GE Proficy Smart Factory MES
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Cloudcraft is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
GE Proficy Smart Factory MES0.2%
Cloudcraft0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

PrinceKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Visual planning has transformed how our teams document aws architecture and estimate costs
The best features Cloudcraft offers include visual AWS architecture, the ability to create professional AWS diagrams quickly, significant time savings during solution design, cost estimation, and having estimated infrastructure costs directly within the architecture diagram. Cloudcraft also makes collaboration easier as architecture diagrams can be shared across infrastructure teams. AWS best practice visualization is there, encouraging better architecture design by making it easy to visualize high availability, multi-AZ deployment, public versus private subnets, and security layers. Creating architecture documentation that previously required several hours can now be completed much more quickly. Architecture design and documentation have had the biggest impact on my team. These are part of our day-to-day work that were time-consuming previously, and now they are easy to accomplish.
Yulianto Artawan - PeerSpot reviewer
Field Services Engineer at Tetrapak
Trend analysis has improved troubleshooting and program testing for accurate, reliable outputs
The features I appreciate most in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES are the ability to create trends when I troubleshoot during my daily work. I can also edit the program in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, and before I download it to the PLC, I can test it first to ensure my program is working correctly. GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has been very useful in my daily work because it is user-friendly. I can also go online and change the IP address easily, which is simpler compared to other solutions. Troubleshooting with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is easier than other options.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Cloudcraft is an amazing tool for this use case."
"Cloudcraft has positively impacted our organization as infrastructure documentation is more consistent and easier to maintain."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES facilitates improved data capture, processing, and reporting across organizational levels, from supervisory to managerial to business levels."
"The hardware of GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is very strong, and the software is very easy and useful for me."
"I have seen a return on investment from using GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, as it enhanced productivity, leading to an increase in the number of parts manufactured, which resulted in good revenue generation for the business."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has positively impacted my organization in many ways, for example, what we used to accomplish in a day as production has increased quite a bit, and our performance and quality of products have also improved, leading to a noticeable increase in OEE."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES positively impacts my organization by providing a tool for real-time production that utilizes our time in various ways, enabling us to gather all data on one page."
"With GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, it has affected daily operations by making it a lot easier for them, taking a little bit of load off of their paperwork, but also allowing the customer to really see what is going on and see where they can make some improvements."
"The most positive impact of GE Proficy Smart Factory MES was the immediate gain in accuracy in measuring OEE, and in practical results, I was able to reduce unaccounted downtime by about 12% in the first few months."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES has positively impacted my organization, as the production has gone up to 33% in the financial year that they introduced the MES system and we upgraded the systems."
 

Cons

"I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive."
"There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases."
"I think GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is complicated for replication, but I consider that it can be scalable if properly sized."
"Customer support for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES gives quick results sometimes, but there are delays at times, so I would appreciate quicker responses from their end."
"GE Proficy Smart Factory MES should be a bit easier to customize."
"I think GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be optimized better, specifically regarding the application right and the backup."
"In terms of how GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be improved, I believe one key area is the connectivity on the shop floor."
"I think you could add more password protection inside GE Proficy Smart Factory MES."
"Improvements in GE Proficy Smart Factory MES should focus on enhancing the user interface for thick client displays."
"What I wish was easier or better with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES are some custom extensions in regards to third-party code that integrates into it, making it more of a faceplate and something easier to populate with a single tag number."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
46%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Healthcare Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
4%
Construction Company
28%
Manufacturing Company
22%
Healthcare Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudcraft?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is positive as Cloudcraft provides strong value to organizations requiring regulatory design documents and AWS architecture. I view the pricing...
What needs improvement with Cloudcraft?
There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases. Real-time collaborative editing could be improved for larger in...
What is your primary use case for Cloudcraft?
As our AWS environment grew across multiple applications, accounts, and environments, maintaining architecture documentation became increasingly difficult. We started using Cloudcraft because the i...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
As for my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES, I did not have to charge for that, so I was the integrator.
What needs improvement with GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
In terms of how GE Proficy Smart Factory MES can be improved, I believe one key area is the connectivity on the shop floor. We need local connectors that can connect directly to the machines such a...
What is your primary use case for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES?
My main use case for GE Proficy Smart Factory MES is that we implemented this in one of the factories two to three years ago as smart manufacturing to calculate the OEE and other KPIs. We have many...
 

Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudcraft vs. GE Proficy Smart Factory MES and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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