ROI Calculator
TrackMyMachines ROI Calculator
Most factories log uptime, downtime and part counts by hand, paying for the admin and running half-blind in between. Set the calculator to your operation and see the monthly return, and exactly how we work it out.
Built on how UK manufacturers actually use TrackMyMachines. Conservative by design.
Tell us about your factory
Adjust these to match your factory floor. The estimate updates as you type.
Estimated saving per month
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£5,200
Machine time recovered
Running cost saved by lifting utilisation 5 points.
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£3,000
Manual entry removed
Labour saved on capture TrackMyMachines logs automatically.
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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.
1Machine running cost recovered
Same output, fewer running hours.
Each machine runs 8 hours a day. TrackMyMachines lifts utilisation by 5 points, so you hit the same output in 0.4 fewer hours per machine each day. Across 10 machines over a 5-day week, that's 20 hours of running time recovered. At a £65/hour running cost:
2Manual 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's 41.7 hours of admin TrackMyMachines does for you. At £18/hour labour:
The saving depends only on the extra points TrackMyMachines adds to the hours you already run, not on where your utilisation starts today. The two figures add up to your £8,200 monthly estimate.
Payback
When TrackMyMachines pays for itself
At your numbers, the one-off hardware is repaid almost immediately. After that, it's all return.
Days to pay back
Year-one return
Return = year-one net saving ÷ total year-one cost (1,115% ROI). Year one: subscription £6,600 + one-off hardware £1,500, across 10 machines.
Banked across 12 months at today's inputs
How You Find It
Where the hidden hours are
The saving above is time you already pay for but cannot see today. TrackMyMachines surfaces it one stop, one cycle and one machine at a time.
Downtime reasons, captured
Every stop gets a reason logged at the machine. You fix the cause, instead of guessing why output slipped.
The whole day on one timeline
Runs, stops and changeovers laid out in order. The quiet gaps you never noticed become obvious.
Alerts when it matters
Get told the moment a critical job goes down, so a ten-minute stop never turns into a lost shift.
Utilisation, machine to factory
Start at the whole factory and drill down to a single spindle. See exactly where the lost hours sit.
Counts and cycle times, automatic
Part counts and cycle times log themselves. Slow cycles and hidden bottlenecks show up without a clipboard.
OEE, the full picture
Availability, performance and quality roll into one OEE score, so you see how much true capacity every machine is really delivering.
Where a +5-point gain leaves you
Why You Can Trust It
A deliberately conservative estimate
These figures use our own customer data benchmarks, not self-reported industry averages. A 5-point gain still leaves plenty of headroom. We model the floor, not the ceiling.
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.
below the G7 average — UK manufacturing productivity per hour worked, with Germany running 16% ahead.
of annual turnover now lost to unplanned downtime at the world's largest manufacturers — up from 8% five years ago.
of production an average factory loses every month to downtime it never fully accounts for.
of UK manufacturers now run real-time KPI dashboards. The ones measuring are the ones closing the gap.
TrackMyMachines puts that visibility on every machine you run, so the lost hours become recovered output and you compete on facts, not instinct.
See these numbers on your own machines
Connect your first machine in under 15 minutes and watch the live data confirm these figures for yourself.