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Downtime Cost Calculator

Put a number on what unplanned stops really cost you - per event, per month and per year. New to the topic? See what downtime is and what it costs.

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Cost per year
$720,000
Per event
$3,000

1,200 units lost

Per month
$60,000

20 stops

Lost units / yr
288,000

good units never made

This is the conservative figure - it counts only lost margin and idle crew. On a bottleneck machine the real number is higher, because a stopped bottleneck is output the whole plant never recovers. See which causes to remove first.

You can't cost what you don't capture.

Most of this bill is the short stops no one logs. See every stop captured automatically, priced, and ranked by what it costs you.