How do you use ML to really understand your manufacturing process? Complex processes are hard to model – everything affects everything, and standard models struggle to capture that full chain of effects. In this talk, we show how CeramTec and Merantix Momentum tackled this at the ML level: After transitioning the shop floor to be data-first, we used Explainable Graphs to predict outcomes mid-process and give decision-makers a granular view of what drives what across the line.