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We've been on the floor.

Not in sales meetings with manufacturers. On the floor, watching machines run, talking to operators, building software that actually had to work when it was installed.

Last updated: May 27, 2026

ORIGIN

How we got here.

Kinetech has been building custom software since 2014. A decade in, we've shipped hundreds of applications for companies on every rung of the ladder. $10M-a-year non-profits to $6B-a-year global manufacturer. Public sector, life science, finance, construction - you name it, we've done it. We know how to design, build, deliver, and implement software that runs an entire organization.

MACH is what happens when we stop doing that only for other people.

The custom work is still a core part of our business, and it's what keeps us nimble. It's why we can extend MACH the same way we extend ERPs, MES, and anything else on the floor. But after a decade of building for everyone else, it was time to bring our own product to the floor. We took everything we'd learned about IT and digital delivery, paired it with people who've spent their careers inside manufacturing operations and plant IT, and that team built MACH.

"You can only go as far, as fast, and as deep as the client will let you. Sometimes the job doesn't get finished the way it should. Sometimes the most interesting work dies on the vine because leadership changed or priorities shifted. MACH is the work that doesn't have to stop."

The MACH team at Kinetech

Everyone working on MACH has run into a version of the same frustration. On the consultant side, we can only go as far and as deep as the budget and imagination of the client will allow. Sometimes the job doesn't get finished the way it should. We built 60% of what we could have. The rest got value-engineered out before the floor ever saw it. On the client side, leadership changes, priorities shift, champions move on, and what could have been achieved dies on the vine because no one is there to push it forward.

We built MACH so that work doesn't have to stop.

One of those engagements was with a major steel fabricator. We built a custom operational intelligence solution for their production floor and rolled it out across 100 facilities. What we learned there shaped MACH more than any other project: the gap between what the ERP reported and what was actually happening, and the tools operators and supervisors needed to close it. The steel fabricator recovered 20% additional production capacity without adding processing equipment.

20% additional capacity recovered. Rolled out across 100 facilities. No new processing equipment. The data was already there.

Read the steel fabricator case study →

MACH stands for Machine Analytics & Control Hub. The name is straightforward because the product is straightforward. Connect the machines. Capture the context. Make the data available to the people who need it, when they need it, in a form they can act on.

And we'd rather walk away from a bad fit than sell you something that doesn't deliver.

THE PATH

A decade of delivery. Then MACH.

  1. 1
    2014 · Founded

    Kinetech Cloud opens in San Antonio.

    Custom enterprise software for companies that need it built, not bought.

  2. 2
    2014 – 2022 · Scale

    Hundreds of apps across a dozen industries.

    $10M-a-year non-profits to $6B-a-year global manufacturer. Same delivery discipline at every scale.

  3. 3
    2022 · Focus

    Manufacturing becomes the center of gravity.

    Floor time, operator interviews, PLC work, ERP integrations. A deliberate narrowing of the practice.

  4. 4
    2024 · Proof

    Steel fabricator engagement recovers 20% capacity.

    Custom operational intelligence on one floor. No new processing equipment. The data was already there.

  5. 5
    2026 · MACH

    The platform, productized.

    Same team. Same floor discipline. Now available as a connected suite: Monitor, Schedule, and Maintain.

KINETECH BY THE NUMBERS · THE COMPANY BEHIND MACH

Ten years. 500 apps. Same team building MACH.

2014
Founded
500+
custom apps delivered
100%
delivery success rate
100+
customers since founding
Community

Rooted in San Antonio manufacturing.

SAMA, San Antonio Manufacturers Association member

Kinetech is a proud member of SAMA, the voice and advocate for manufacturing across the greater San Antonio metropolitan area. The floor we're building for is the one outside our door.

Want to talk to the people building MACH?

The MACH team is small and deliberate. If that sounds like the kind of group you'd rather work with, let's start a conversation.

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