Build the business case before you talk to any vendor — including us. No email wall, no lead form. Every calculation runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.
Work out the true hourly cost of unplanned downtime on a production line — lost throughput, idle labour, scrap at restart, and expedited freight — then see what a percentage-point of availability is worth over a year.
What an hour of unplanned downtime actually costs your line.Most PM intervals are inherited, not chosen. Enter the cost of doing the PM, the cost and likelihood of the failure it prevents, and see where the total expected cost is actually lowest.
Find the interval where PM cost and failure cost balance.Estimate annual return from a CMMS across the four places it usually shows up: less unplanned downtime, less wrench-time lost to paperwork, lower inventory carrying cost, and fewer compliance findings.
Build the number you have to take to your plant manager.They build on each other, and the sequence matters if you are heading into a budget conversation.
If you want the underlying reference material, the PM library has real procedures with intervals and durations, and the equipment guides cover what fails on each asset.
Pick your industry and ChatterFix builds the equipment hierarchy, PM schedules, quality checklists, and safety inspections to match — in about three minutes.