Close to 10,000 pages a day still did not create live visibility.
Five employees were primarily doing data entry. One of them spent full time multiplying dimensions for invoicing, while printed forms moved between departments.
The same order was re-entered across steps, calculations were repeated by hand, and learning the status of a job meant physically checking the factory. Every inefficiency multiplied across hundreds of different configurations each day.
The previous systems could store the fields. They failed because they asked factory operators to work through too many screens, selections and mouse movements.



