See what your losses cost — and what fixing them is worth.
Costing puts a euro value on downtime, rejects, slow running, labour and overtime, and on the capacity you win back when you fix them. It turns the losses you already measure into the one number the business runs on: money.
What each loss is costing you today.
Costing takes the rates entered for the plant and applies them to the actual losses already recorded by the suite. Here is a daily view for Lant Q300 and connected lines — the money tied back to availability, performance, quality, labour, material and overtime.
Availability loss
Stops are priced as the capacity and crew time lost while the line was unavailable.
Performance loss
Cycles below standard rate are converted into the output the line should have made.
Quality loss
Rejected units carry the material and run time already spent making them.
Where today’s total came from
Entered rates mapped onto losses · €18.965What it puts a number on.
OEE tells you a line lost time. Costing tells you what that time was worth — reaching across every loss you already track and pricing each one in the same currency.
Material
Priced against the job bill of materials, so overuse and variance show up as cost.
Rejects & scrap
Each reject carries the material and run time already spent making it, by reason and product.
Downtime
Lost minutes by line, reason and shift, valued at what that capacity was worth.
Slow running
When cycles drift below standard rate, the output you gave up is costed as it happens.
Labour
Crew time mapped to the jobs and lines that actually consumed it.
Overtime
Hours past standard, costed with the configured premium they really carry.
Opportunity cost
Capacity lost to stops and slow running, valued at what it could have produced.
From your BOM
Material standards come from your job bill of materials — Costing prices the variance against them.
Material standards come from your job bill of materials. Costing is the layer that prices the variance, and everything else, against them.
The same losses, converted into euros.
Your floor already records the minutes lost and the rejects made. Costing applies your own rates and turns that record into money — so a stop becomes both lost time and a figure the front office understands.
Nothing new gets entered on the floor. The minutes, units and reasons are already there — Costing is the conversion layer that puts a price on them.
It shows what fixing losses is worth.
A loss priced in euros cuts both ways. The same rate that turns a stop into a cost turns an hour of recovered capacity into a gain — so an OEE improvement on Lant Q300 shows up as money earned.
Recovered capacity, priced like the losses
An hour won back on Lant Q300 is worth more than an hour on a lower-demand line, because Costing values it at what that device actually produces. That makes the business case concrete: fewer stops, more capacity, and the euros they were quietly costing you back on the table.
Watch a single loss over time and you see cost coming out as the fixes land — the same number a Continuous Improvement action is judged against.
Reject cost per week
↓ down by halfIllustrative: reject cost falling week over week as fixes land. The same view works for downtime or overtime cost.
Ask Advisor what the losses cost.
Once Costing is in, Advisor answers money questions in plain language from the same priced loss data. Open one to see the kind of reply it makes possible. Examples are illustrative.
What did downtime cost on Lant Q300 last week?
Downtime on Lant Q300 cost €18.420 last week. Equipment Failure was the largest contributor at €9.870 from 5h 12m down, followed by Changeover at €3.240.
Which reject code is the most expensive across the plant?
Damaged Seal is the most expensive reject code this week at €4.360, mostly from Indigo 6K. Label Misprint is next at €2.180 on XL400-6R, even though it had fewer rejected units.
What is an hour of recovered capacity worth on Lant Q300?
One recovered hour on Lant Q300 is worth about €1.185 at the current mix. If you get back two hours a week, that is roughly €123.000 per year before any overtime reduction.
What did overtime add to last month’s total cost?
Overtime added €14.760 last month. Indigo 6K carried €6.210, XL400-6R added €4.080, and Lant Q300 added €2.940. Yesterday’s overtime premium was €480.
Costing supplies the euros, and Advisor returns the answer from live production and cost data.
Put a number on what your losses cost.
Costing is in active development. Book a demo with ACI — your OEE IntelliSuite partner in Belgium & Benelux — and we’ll walk through how it prices the losses you already track, and where it points first.