Craig Scott

CEO & Founder Fuuz

Craig Scott is the Founder and CEO of Fuuz, an industrial intelligence platform developed by MFGx and headquartered in Michigan with global deployments across complex manufacturing environments. Craig founded MFGx in 2018 with a clear objective: eliminate the barriers that prevent manufacturers from connecting systems, understanding their operations, and solving business problems without building costly infrastructure from scratch.

With more than 25 years of hands-on manufacturing and operational leadership experience, Craig brings a rare blend of shop-floor practicality and platform innovation. His career spans operating a metal fabrication business and serving in progressive leadership roles including CAD Designer, Engineering Manager, General Manager, and Vice President of Operations. This operator-first background shapes his pragmatic approach to technology—focusing on solutions that work in real manufacturing environments, not just theoretical architectures.

Under Craig's leadership, Fuuz has grown to support more than 200 enterprise customers across over 1,300 manufacturing locations worldwide, spanning Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Medical Devices, Life Sciences, Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, and other highly regulated and complex industries. The Fuuz platform enables manufacturers to connect, collect, store, analyze, visualize, and act on operational data while extending and enhancing existing enterprise and shop-floor systems. By providing a foundation manufacturers can build upon, Fuuz helps organizations innovate faster without replacing the systems they depend on.

Craig is a recognized voice in modern manufacturing transformation, frequently speaking on bridging IT and OT systems, accelerating digital adoption, and democratizing manufacturing innovation. His work centers on helping manufacturers gain visibility, agility, and control across their operations while reducing the complexity traditionally associated with industrial technology initiatives

Monday, June 15, 2026

10:00 AM Digital Transformation and the Industrial Software Stack: 3 Commonly Overlooked Must-Haves for Success

Most digital transformation initiatives in manufacturing stall, not because the strategy is wrong, but because three foundational layers of the software stack are missing or misunderstood. Unlike other sectors, the modern factory generates an enormous range of data types — from automation and engineering systems to supply chain and quality platforms — and capturing the economic benefits of transformation requires infrastructure that can absorb that diversity. In this fireside conversation, Abelara Co-Founder Glenn Gardner interviews Fuuz CEO Craig Scott on the three capabilities every industrial software stack must have to succeed, grounded in real-world deployments: Hybar's next-generation steel mill, a greenfield manufacturing startup building from a clean sheet, and a global life sciences leader operating under the strictest regulatory demands. Each story reveals how these foundational capabilities are reshaping how manufacturers compete, comply, and scale.

Key Takeaways:

Why an iPaaS purpose-built for industrial environments — not a general-purpose integration tool — is the prerequisite for unifying IT and OT data at scale, illustrated by how Hybar connected automation, ERP, and quality systems from day one.
How a composable workflow engine lets manufacturers capture plant-specific data sources and processes without months of custom development — and why a greenfield deployment was able to go live in a fraction of the typical timeline.
Why an ontology (or knowledge graph) is the missing bridge between the plant floor and the enterprise — and how a global life sciences manufacturer is using it to meet validation and traceability demands while accelerating analytics and AI initiatives.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Craig.

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