Before Beedigit, Elsewedy Polymers tracked downtime, machine parameters, and production orders entirely on paper. Downtime events were logged by hand, in inconsistent formats, often with illegible handwriting and missing timestamps. There was no standardized way to identify root causes. Reports relied on operator memory rather than actual machine events, and nobody could act on a problem until the shift was already over. Process parameters like temperature, speed, and pressure were hand-written per shift, with no validation or alerts. Production orders were issued on printed forms, then manually re-entered into Excel and Oracle ERP — adding redundancy, delay, and error at every step. Without visibility into real equipment performance and actual production capacity, the factory had no way to identify where to improve, or to justify investment in process upgrades.
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