Most manufacturers we talk to aren't asking for more software. They're asking for less.

Forty applications. A dozen integrations holding it all together.

We cover:

• The supply chain ↔ factory floor disconnect, and why the language of customer POs almost never lines up with the work orders that actually get run
• Why standard cost variances catch you at quarter close instead of when you can still do something about them
• What a C-suite KPI dashboard really looks like under the hood — and how many hours of manual reconciliation hide behind every "give me the top three reasons we missed."
• Craig Scott (CEO, Fuuz) on why this is an architecture problem, not a technology one — and what a shared operational model actually is
• Dylan DuFresne on Fuuz as "IT software that understands OT," Litmus's 250+ device drivers, and modeling data as close to the edge as possible
• Hussein (Litmus) on edge containerization, metadata at scale, and the UNS flexibility you need to actually move fast
• The security question — role-based access control, encrypted data, the Fuuz Gateway through the DMZ, and what "MCP-ready" actually means for OT data
• The brownfield reality — no rip-and-replace, just better connection into the SCADAs, historians, and OPC servers already in place
• Glenn's mic drop — if you built top-down from the C-suite, you'd build Fuuz. If you built bottom-up from the factory floor, you'd build Litmus. They're the two most important anchor points in the whole industrial software ecosystem.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro — the simplification thesis
00:51 Glenn's pain point #1 — supply chain ↔ factory floor disconnect
03:02 Pain point #2 — late awareness of cost variances
04:45 Context — why enterprises are cutting logos
05:48 Pain point #3 — C-suite KPIs vs. how they're really built
07:40 Cappy Hour reference (see the Prove It session)
09:22 The wish — one platform to solve all three
10:16 Craig Scott — it's an architecture problem, not a technology one
11:31 Excel is still the dominant MES
12:27 Shared operational model — red, blue, and purple data
14:09 Walker Reynolds, UNS, and an oil-and-gas project with 50+ software vendors
15:09 Death by a thousand cuts
16:08 Cost visibility isn't a reporting problem — it's a latency problem
17:36 Burying A-players in spreadsheets
18:45 Bridging C-suite KPIs to the plant floor
20:46 The operational model as DNA
22:35 Dylan — getting data from the edge, the right way
25:22 Litmus's 250+ drivers and edge data modeling
27:48 Kepware vs. Litmus — containerization at the enterprise
29:25 Edge modeling as the differentiator
30:48 PLC-level hygiene and OEM involvement
33:40 Patrick's question — security, RBAC, and the Fuuz Gateway
35:46 Litmus + Fuuz visualization — overlap and complement
38:36 Brownfield — Litmus and Fuuz alongside existing OPC, SCADA, historians
43:02 Why point-to-point solutions break at scale
44:38 Glenn's mic drop — top-down vs. bottom-up
46:15 The Lighthouse Partner — how to work with Abelara
47:19 Closing — we always start from a fresh sheet of paper

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