$173B
Record deal value
Industrial manufacturing deal value over the past year, up 28%, according to PwC.
For executives and investors
Industrial companies are under pressure to show that digital and AI investments pay off on the income statement: more throughput, lower labor cost, fewer failures. Fuuz is the enterprise data layer that makes those gains possible at scale: connected across every plant, measured in one model, on a subscription you can plan.
The market context
From PwC's Industrial manufacturing: US Deals 2026 midyear outlook (June 2026).
$173B
Record deal value
Industrial manufacturing deal value over the past year, up 28%, according to PwC.
86%
Strategic buyers
The share of deal value from strategic acquirers, who must integrate what they buy.
69%
Acquire and divest
Nearly 69% of companies making $5 billion-plus acquisitions since 2021 also divested assets, per PwC.
What buyers are asking for
PwC's outlook is direct: acquirers of AI-enabled operations increasingly want evidence of throughput improvements, labor cost offsets and predictive maintenance savings before they pay a premium. The same standard is coming to every digital budget, acquisition or not.
Proving it takes two things most plants lack: operational data that is connected and trusted, and a way to change how work gets done without a multi-year project. Fuuz provides both on one platform.
Where Fuuz fits
AI on the P&L
PwC puts it plainly: AI gains have to show up on the income statement. Most manufacturers are not there yet, and the reason is rarely the model. It is the data. Each plant has its own systems, its own definitions and its own spreadsheets, so every AI pilot starts with a data cleanup project and ends at one site.
Fuuz is the data layer across the enterprise. Machines, ERP and plant systems are connected and modeled once, in one knowledge graph that is also the backend your applications run on. A use case proven at one plant runs at the next on the same model, so AI value adds up across the business instead of staying a pilot.
Why AI pilots stall, and how Fuuz fixes it
From foundation to value
A data layer on its own does not move a KPI. The value comes from operational apps, tightly coupled to that data, that your OT teams can deploy fast. Solving an inefficiency, clearing a bottleneck or planning a new production line happens faster, with fewer vendors, fewer licenses and fewer delays.
3 · Outcomes
2 · Where the value is created
Tightly coupled to the data layer, built from accelerators and shaped to each plant without a long implementation project.
1 · The foundation
Machines, ERP and plant systems connected and modeled once: a single source of operational truth, ready for AI.
Operators and supervisors see what is happening now, at the step where it matters, so problems are caught before they become scrap, rework or a missed shipment.
Quality checks, holds and SPC run inside the work, not after it, on the same data as production, so defects are contained at the source.
With one source of operational truth across every site, teams compare plants on the same KPIs, find the losses that matter and roll out the fix everywhere.
IT and OT, together
AI value at enterprise scale needs both teams: IT to secure and govern it, OT to put it to work where the product is made. Fuuz gives each team what it needs on the same platform.
One platform to secure, govern and monitor every app, connection, user and agent across the enterprise.
Plant teams connect equipment, build the apps they need and run deterministic flows at the edge, without waiting on a long IT project.
What one plant proves, every plant can run, on the same model and under the same governance.
Where the upside comes from
See where capacity is lost, in real time, and run the plant to a schedule people can follow. Machine data, downtime reasons and work orders live in one model.
Give every operator the next step, the right instructions and fewer screens, and let governed agents and flows take on the repetitive work.
Move from reacting to failures to acting on condition, with work orders raised from live equipment data and parts tied to the asset.
Catch problems at the step where they start, hold the right lots, and keep the record that customers and auditors ask for.
Know what you have, where it is and what it is committed to, from receiving through shipping, in step with the ERP.
Retire overlapping point solutions and the custom integrations between them. One platform, one data model and one security model to run.
Built for portfolio change
Portfolios are changing fast, with acquisitions, divestitures and carve-outs often happening at once. Every change raises the same question at the plant: which systems does this site run on, and how quickly can it run the way the rest of the business does?
Fuuz connects to what a site already has, so an acquired or carved-out plant can run on a common data model and packaged applications while its existing ERP stays connected. Standardize plant by plant, on your schedule, instead of waiting for one big migration.
A typical path
Costs you can predict
Point solutions add a license, an integration and a support contract for every problem. Fuuz is priced as one platform.
A stack of point solutions
Fuuz
Prove it plant by plant
Step 1
Connect one plant and capture where time, labor and material go today, in the Fuuz model.
Step 2
Start from accelerators for the problem with the clearest payback, and shape them to how the plant runs.
Step 3
Compare before and after in the same data: OEE, downtime, labor hours, scrap and inventory accuracy.
Step 4
Package what worked and roll it out to the next site, at a cost you knew in advance.
Questions
Start from a baseline in the same platform. Because machine data, work orders, labor, quality and inventory live in one model, the measures you use to prove value, such as OEE, downtime, labor hours, scrap and inventory accuracy, come from the same data before and after.
Editions are sized by the number of production app runtimes and production connections you run. Compute and data storage are included, and there are no per-user fees, data transfer charges or revenue-based metrics. You know what the next app runtime costs before you add it. Talk to our team.
Yes. Fuuz connects to the systems a site already has, so an acquired or carved-out plant can run on a common data model and packaged applications while its ERP stays connected. Teams can standardize plant by plant instead of all at once.
No. Fuuz connects two ways to ERP and other systems of record. Many manufacturers keep their ERP and run MES, WMS, quality and maintenance on Fuuz, or keep some of those systems and connect them.
Because AI is only as useful as the data and context it can reach. When every plant has its own systems and definitions, each AI project starts over. Fuuz connects and models data once across the enterprise, so a use case proven at one plant can run at every plant, and its results can be measured in the same data.
Most teams start with one plant and one problem, using accelerators for MES, WMS, quality and maintenance, then package what works and roll it out to the next site.
Get started
Tell us where you need the P&L to move. We will show you how manufacturers are getting there on Fuuz, and what it costs.
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