Most factory owners know downtime is a problem. But the impact goes further than lost production hours. Here are four ways downtime is affecting your factory right now.
1. Your labor costs are higher than they need to be. When a machine stops, workers on that line are idle — but still being paid. Even 30 minutes of idle time per day across a team adds up to significant wasted cost every month.
2. Your delivery reliability is lower than it should be. Every unplanned breakdown adds risk to your delivery schedule. Even if you catch up most of the time, the occasions you do not damage your reputation with customers who were counting on you.
3. Your maintenance costs are higher than necessary. Emergency repairs are expensive. Spare parts sourced urgently cost more. Technicians called outside working hours charge premiums. All of this is avoidable with better planning.
4. Your best machines are aging faster. Machines that are not maintained properly deteriorate faster. What could have been a simple servicing job becomes a major repair — and eventually a full replacement — years earlier than necessary.
Each of these problems gets worse the longer downtime goes unmanaged. And none of them require new machines to fix — they require better visibility and better systems.
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