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The 90-Day Post-Installation Review: Did Automation Deliver?
A review template that compares an automation business case with 90 days of actual results, recalculates payback, and records lessons for the next investment.
Automation Investment
Payback, total cost of ownership, installed cost, utilization and post-installation reviews: how to judge whether an automation project will pay for itself, and when it will not.
Manual, Semi-Automatic or Fully Automatic Packaging? A Cost Model
A volume-based cost model that puts manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic packaging on one basis, with the crossover volumes worked out and checked.
Automation Payback, ROI and TCO: What Each Metric Tells You
Payback, ROI and TCO answer three different questions. One worked automation case run through all three, with what each metric leaves out.
How Equipment Utilization Changes Automation Payback
Low, medium and high utilization scenarios for one $60,000 automation case, with a sensitivity check and a break-even hours formula.
The True Installed Cost of Packaging Automation
A checklist of the costs beyond a packaging machine's price, a worked installed-cost example, and how to get suppliers to state scope and exclusions.
Labor Savings Versus Redeployment: Avoiding False Payback Claims
How to separate cash labor savings from freed hours in an automation business case, so a payback claim does not count wages the company will still pay.