Measure the loss
Establish how much time, rate or output is actually being lost and how often it repeats.
MANUFACTURING ROI
What is recovered production time worth?
Use a simple screening calculation to estimate the monthly value of productive time that could be recovered. The result is illustrative—not a promise of savings.
CALCULATOR
Estimate recovered monthly value.
Enter the estimated value of one productive machine hour and the number of productive hours you believe could realistically be recovered each month.
Illustrative only. Actual value depends on contribution margin, labour, overtime, constraints, product mix and whether the identified loss can actually be removed.
Estimated monthly recovered value$2,000
Hours to cover monthly software: $349 AUD1.4 hours
At this hourly value, recovering about 1.4 productive hours per month would cover the $349 monthly software subscription. Connectivity hardware is excluded because the final requirement depends on the machine and site configuration.
USE ROI CAREFULLY
Visibility creates an opportunity—not automatic savings.
Remove a cause
Production monitoring identifies where to focus; the plant still needs to implement the improvement.
Verify the gain
Compare the post-change data with the original baseline and confirm that the result is sustained.
See it. Then prove it.