Kareem Afzal Joins Industrility as Advisor

Industrility, the AI-powered aftermarket and service lifecycle management platform for industrial equipment manufacturers, announced that Kareem Afzal has joined the company as an advisor.

Kareem spent more than 24 years building PDC Machines, a premier manufacturer of diaphragm gas compression systems for hydrogen, industrial gas, and specialty gas markets, serving as Executive Chairman through March 2026. He started as a design engineer and went on to lead the company as CEO, growing it from a regional manufacturer into a global business and one of the leading names in hydrogen equipment.

Kareem also brings a customer perspective. PDC Machines is a customer of Industrility and runs its aftermarket portal on the platform, bringing operational manuals, 3D parts catalogue, and dimensional diagrams together in one place through the Operational Digital Twin, making it easier for customers and partners to do business with PDC and opening new parts and service revenue.

As an advisor, Kareem will shape product direction from the perspective of an operator who has run service, parts, and installed base programs at scale. He will advise on the go-to-market strategy for mid-market OEMs, where the hard part is rarely the technology and almost always the process, the data quality, and the internal buy-in. And he will support Industrility’s expansion across the compressors, generators, and energy equipment segments, which he knows from the inside.