Tell us about your factory

Adjust these to match your factory floor. The estimate updates as you type.

Machines to monitor How many CNC machines or production assets you'd put on TrackMyMachines.

Machine running cost Fully-loaded cost to run one machine for an hour: power, tooling, operator and overhead. Used to value the extra output you recover.

£/ hr

Operating hours per day Hours each machine is scheduled to run on a typical working day.

hrs

Operating days per week Number of days a week the floor runs.

days

Expected productivity boost A gain in percentage points of utilisation: if you run at 60% today, a 5-point increase takes you to 65%. We default to a conservative 5 points; most customers see between 5 and 15 once downtime reasons are captured and acted on.

+5 pts

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Do you capture uptime, downtime & part counts by hand today?

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Time logging data by hand Minutes each operator spends per machine, per day, manually recording uptime, downtime and part counts.

min

per machine, each day

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£55 per machine per month, the 10-machine price. Hardware and connectivity included; the operator tablet (£50 per tablet per month) is not counted.

Net saving a month, after the subscription

£8,333

£100,000 a year

At these numbers the saving does not yet cover the subscription.

• Machine time recovered Running cost saved by the utilisation points you add, on the hours you already run.

  £5,633

• Manual entry removed Labour saved on the capture that TrackMyMachines logs automatically.

  £3,250

To cover a year’s subscription 23days

Year-one return 15.2×

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The Method

How this is worked out

We add up two savings: machine time you get back, and admin time you stop paying for. No black box. Here is each one, worked through with your numbers.

Machine running cost recovered

Same output, fewer running hours.

Each machine is scheduled for 8 hours a day. Lifting utilisation by 5 points turns about 24 minutes a day of idle time per machine into productive running. Across 10 machines over a 5-day week that is 20 hours a week, about 86.7 hours a month, worth £65 an hour:

£5,633recovered a month

Manual data entry removed

Admin TrackMyMachines logs on its own.

Logging uptime, downtime and part counts by hand takes about 50 minutes per machine each day. Across 10 machines over a 5-day week that is 41.7 hours a week, about 180.6 hours a month, that TrackMyMachines does for you. At £18 an hour:

£3,250saved a month

This saving only applies if you log uptime, downtime and part counts by hand today.

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Your total saving, every month

The two savings above, added together, before the subscription.

£8,883

a month, at your numbers

The saving depends only on the extra points TrackMyMachines adds to the hours you already run, not on where your utilisation starts today.

Payback

When TrackMyMachines pays for itself

At your numbers, your savings cover a full year's subscription in about 23 days. Everything after that is return, with no upfront cost.

23days To cover a year's subscription

15.2× Year-one return

Year one: £106,600 saved, £6,600 subscription (£55 × 10 machines × 12), £100,000 net: 15.2 times the cost.

Cumulative net saving

£100,000

Banked across 12 months at today’s inputs

Paid back ~day 23

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Why You Can Trust It

A deliberately conservative estimate

The 5-point default comes from what TrackMyMachines customers gain once downtime reasons are logged and acted on. A cautious estimate: a 5-point gain, the full subscription counted, and no compounding.

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points of utilisation

Industry average30%

With TrackMyMachines35%

Source: TrackMyMachines customer data, 2025

We count percentage points of utilisation, never compound growth, and price the full subscription against the saving. Real results are usually higher once downtime reasons are captured and acted on.

Why It Matters

You're competing on a global stage

The world's most productive factories are extending their lead, and they're doing it with visibility, not longer hours. Every hour you can't see is an hour a competitor already has. This is the gap the best plants are closing.

10%

below the G7 average: UK manufacturing productivity per hour worked, with Germany running 16% ahead.

ONS, via “Mind the Gap”, Barclays & The Manufacturer, 2025

11%

of annual turnover now lost to unplanned downtime at the world’s largest manufacturers, up from 8% five years ago.

Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime, 2024

30hrs

of production an average factory loses every month to downtime it never fully accounts for.

L2L, The Impact of Manufacturing Downtime, 2025

53%

of UK manufacturers now run real-time KPI dashboards. The ones measuring are the ones closing the gap.

“Mind the Gap”, Barclays & The Manufacturer, 2025

TrackMyMachines puts that visibility on every machine you run, so the lost hours become recovered output and you compete on facts, not instinct.