The concept of process improvement is about to be upended… factories of today collect massive amounts of data and use tools such as Microsoft Business Intelligence (Power BI) to create dashboards. These dashboards tell a story of what happened and model changes for process improvement. They have worked very well to establish standards and provide an early warning system with their formidable ability to bring relevance and context to data, but they cannot do a simulation and change variables using AI or ML in a predictable fashion then immediately bring them back into the physical world to provide ROI.