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The downtime number your finance director will accept
Most plants quote lost margin and stop there. This builds the full cost — idle labour, restart scrap, expedited freight, recovery overtime, energy drawn while stopped — and ends with the cost of one hour and the cost of one stop.
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Download the Cost Model (.xlsx)
Then size the fix with the business case template.
What's inside
- Twelve inputs, each with where the number comes from
- Six cost components, derivation shown
- Cost per hour and cost per stop
- Monthly and annual totals
- Yellow cells are yours; everything else calculates