Unplanned downtime. The hidden cost factor.
Manufacturers lose an average of 800 hours per year, or more than 15 hours per week, of production time due to equipment downtime. Let’s consider a common scenario for a parmesan cheese factory:
- Product: Parmesan cheese block weighing 42 kg, estimated total price 378 Dollars (9 Dollars per kg)
- Packaging machine: Chamber packaging machine
- Packaging speed: 3 cheese block packages per minute
- Vacuum Supply: Busch R5 RA 0630 A + PUMA WP 1250 A
- Value created in one hour: 3 cheese blocks per minute x 60 minutes x 378 Dollars per cheese block = 68040 Dollars in one hour
If the parmesan factory experienced 15 hours of unplanned downtime caused by equipment failure in one week, they would lose 1,020,600 Dollars.
OO costs only 1.50 Dollars* per day.
*Price dependent on local Busch Company and currency.