Company
Operators and engineers,
not tourists
KNOCE was founded in Houston, Texas at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely share a room: industrial operations software and rugged control hardware. We build for the people who get the 2 a.m. call when a machine goes down — because we've taken that call.
KNOCE, in one paragraph
KNOCE is a Houston, Texas industrial technology company that builds an OEM-agnostic industrial operations platform connecting control, edge intelligence, machine health, and maintenance execution. Its flagship application is turbine-powered hydraulic fracturing: one operating layer across the pump units, gensets, turbines, and mixed-OEM controls of an entire spread — including idle fuel burn priced live in dollars per hour. The same platform serves other PLC-controlled critical rotating equipment — pressure pumping and energy services, remote pumps and rotating equipment, and distributed power generation — with adjacent industries served through KNOCE Certified Monitoring Partners. Its products are the KNO1-PLC, a sealed IP69 edge controller with 76 I/O channels, deterministic IEC 61131-3 control, and edge compute designed for on-device inference, deployable as a full controller or as a read-only smart gateway beside the PLCs, engine controllers, and drives already on the equipment — Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, CODESYS, Parker, Caterpillar, Woodward, and others; and the KNOCE platform, which turns live telemetry into ISA-18.2 alarms, evidence-cited diagnostic findings, and automatic work orders. KNOCE is part of the Knomatic family of companies.
Where KNOCE started: turbine-driven frac fleets, the hardest duty cycle in energy.
What we believe
The principles behind the product
Intelligence belongs at the machine
Cloud-only monitoring fails exactly when you need it most — when the connection drops at a remote site. Detection has to live on the device, with the cloud adding fleet-scale learning on top.
A prediction that doesn't become work is noise
Dashboards don't fix bearings. Every detection in KNOCE carries a failure mode, a recommendation, and a work order — because the point is the repair, not the chart.
Built for harsh reality
IP69, −40 to 185°F, sealed M12 connectors. Industrial equipment doesn't live in climate-controlled racks, and the hardware watching it shouldn't need to either.
Open beats locked-in
CODESYS over captive IDEs. Standard protocols over proprietary ecosystems. Your integrator can service it, your team can extend it, and your data is yours.
Heritage
Where KNOCE comes from
KNOCE is a Knomatic company — built on the operations-software platform Knomatic develops for industrial, logistics, and fleet businesses, and paired with control hardware engineered for the energy sector's hardest environments. The name carries the mission: KNO for knowledge, CE for the control engineering it's built on. Know your machines.