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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 year288,000 good units lost
$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.
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