CPG Manufacturing Masterclass: Fixing "Pilot Purgatory" with UNS & Data Foundation

You have an MQTT broker. You have dashboards. You have data flowing from PLCs. And you still can't make any decisions. That is pilot purgatory. And it is more common than anyone in the industry wants to admit.In this episode, Ricardo Santos, Director at Tupinix, joins Zack Scriven and Dylan DuFresne to walk through what it actually takes to get value from a Unified Namespace in a CPG and food and beverage environment. Using Enterprise B, Capy Hour Inc., as the virtual factory for Abelara's ProveIt 2026 presentation, the team covers real use cases with real numbers.Chapters00:00 — Welcome and Context02:34 — Pilot Purgatory and Vendor Lock04:58 — Ricardo's CPG Background09:12 — When Digital Is Not the Answer Yet19:57 — The Capy Hour Use Cases: Waste, OEE, Quality 26:14 — CIP Optimization with Data Visibility31:47 — True OEE vs. Management OEE41:36 — Why Raw Event Data Is the Foundation43:57 — Utilities and Energy Management51:00 — Tribal Knowledge and the Retiring Expert58:16 — ProveIt 2026 and What to ExpectConnect with Ricardo Santos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardomarquessantos/Connect with Dylan DuFresne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-dufresne-solutions/Connect with Zack Scriven:https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackscriven/Tupinix: https://tupinix.com/Abelara: https://abelara.comSubscribe to Abelara Ascent: https://www.youtube.com/@AbelaraAscent#Abelara #AbelaraAscent #Industry40 #ManufacturingTransformation #DigitalTransformation #CPG #FoodAndBeverage #UnifiedNamespace #OEE #Bottling