Equipment downtime cost calculator
Estimate the true cost of unplanned equipment downtime — lost output plus idle labour — per hour, per incident, per month and per year.
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How to estimate downtime cost
Four steps. Every number is an input you control, and nothing leaves your browser.
Enter the revenue or production value lost per hour of downtime.
Enter idle staff cost per hour and how many staff are affected.
Enter average hours per incident and incidents per month.
See the cost per hour, incident, month and year.
What you need to know
Unplanned downtime is expensive in ways that are easy to underestimate: lost revenue or production while equipment is stopped, plus the cost of staff standing idle. This free downtime cost calculator combines both. Enter the lost revenue or production value per hour, the idle staff cost per hour and how many people are affected, then the average length and frequency of incidents, and it returns the cost per hour, per incident, per month and per year, plus total downtime hours per year.
Seeing downtime as an annual number makes the case for preventive maintenance easier to argue. Asetavo’s maintenance (CMMS) module tracks work orders with downtime and cost, schedules preventive maintenance and keeps a full service history per asset.
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Plan preventive maintenance and keep a complete work-order history for every asset.
- Work orders with priority, assignee, downtime and cost
- PM schedules by days, weeks or months
- Calibration records and “due soon” lists
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