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How Much Is Manual Scheduling Costing Your Shop?

Enter your shop's parameters below. We'll calculate your annual scheduling cost and show you the tier that pays for itself fastest. Get the full report emailed to you, plus an instant PDF download.

Your Shop

Shifts per day

Your Scheduling Overhead

Building the weekly schedule, phone calls to confirm machine status, resequencing after breakdowns.

Used to calculate the value of time spent on manual scheduling.

Scheduling Incidents

Conflicts reaching the floor, rush orders causing cascades, machine breakdowns requiring manual resequencing.

Machine restart, resequencing labor, lost capacity, emergency overtime. Industry benchmark: $250–$1,000 per incident.

Estimates are based on inputs you provide. Actual savings will vary. Not financial advice.

Enter your shop's details to see your estimated savings.

How We Calculate Your Savings

Manual Scheduling Overhead

(Hours/week × Your hourly rate × 52 weeks) = Annual time cost of maintaining a schedule manually.

Source: BRD §3.3 — production managers report 2–5 hours/week on schedule maintenance. At $40/hr, 4 hours/week = $8,320/yr.

Scheduling Incident Cost

(Incidents/month × Cost per incident × 12 months) = Annual cost of scheduling conflicts, machine breakdowns, and rush-order cascades reaching the floor.

Source: Brief §2 — $250–$1,000 per incident; 2–4 incidents/month = $6,000–$48,000/yr for a typical 25-machine shop.

Recommended Tier Selection

Based on your machine count, employee count, and shifts per day mapped against the published tier limits (Brief §5.5). The tier shown is the lowest tier that covers your shop's configuration.