Is 'Artificial Intelligence' a Dirty Word?

No one seems to have investment dollars, patience, or the right skill sets in their manufacturing departments, along with a sage-like understanding of the applications and data to really drive adoption and value in manufacturing. And we see existing companies already starting out with near insurmountable challenges just in core fundamental items, let alone these advanced concepts. For example, most companies don't have a single type of Bill of Material (BOM) construct. They don't share a commonly governed set of master data – item master, vendor, customer, chart of accounts, etc. They have multiple code sets and versions of ERP and MES software, and different PLCs and sensors capturing data, so that if they ever did get patience and investment capability, they would be unable to build and maintain all of the cross references and algorithms required because of all of the different systems and master data.