Factory knowledge benefit estimator
Estimate time your team could recover from searching for answers
Use a measured sample of questions, searches and verification work to frame a factory-assistant opportunity.
BUILD YOUR SCENARIO
Enter your own baseline
Your entries stay in this browser tab. They are not sent to NeoBram or included in analytics. Reloading or closing the tab clears them. Printing or copying creates a copy under your control; the contact form does not receive your entries.
Use one currency throughout. Changing the currency changes the unit label only; it does not convert any amount.
Record the non-confidential boundary for this estimate so printed scenarios remain understandable.
Base scenario
Count the people expected to use the assistant. Account availability is not adoption.
Use each person’s average, not the entire plant’s shift count.
Used to check that the saved time does not exceed the work period.
Subtract verification, correction and escalation effort from any time improvement.
Leave blank for an hours-only result. This values capacity rather than confirmed cash savings.
Enter your organization’s annual FTE-hour basis to calculate capacity equivalent.
Add costs only when you have a supportable cash-benefit estimate.
What your assumptions imply
Enter your baseline and an improvement assumption to calculate a scenario.
How this is calculated
- Net work capacity releasedActive users in this workflow * Shifts worked per person per week * Net minutes released per person per shift * Working weeks per year / 60
- Indicative capacity valueNet work capacity released * Loaded hourly labour cost, optional
- Capacity equivalent, not headcount reductionNet work capacity released / Annual working hours per FTE, optional
Costs and cash realization
- Annual net operating cash benefitRealizable annual cash benefit - Annual recurring operating cost
- First-year net cash benefitRealizable annual cash benefit - Annual recurring operating cost - One-time implementation investment
- Simple payback at full stated annual benefit12 * One-time implementation investment / Annual net operating cash benefit
- First-year undiscounted ROI at full stated annual benefit100 * First-year net cash benefit / (One-time implementation investment + Annual recurring operating cost)
Illustrative scenario only. This is not a quote, forecast, guarantee or verified customer outcome. Confirm the baseline, avoid overlapping benefits and include delivery and operating costs before approving investment.
Keep this estimate with your readiness worksheet or evidence record. For each scenario, record the source/reference, measured period and owner role; mark measured inputs versus assumptions, uncertainty or ranges, and unresolved questions. Copy or print both records before leaving their pages; entries are not carried between pages. Start an enquiry with a non-confidential description only. Open the readiness worksheet.
Scenario record
Factory knowledge benefit estimator Workflow or asset scope: Not entered Currency: Not selected Illustrative scenario only. This is not a quote, forecast, guarantee or verified customer outcome. Confirm the baseline, avoid overlapping benefits and include delivery and operating costs before approving investment. Your entries stay in this browser tab. They are not sent to NeoBram or included in analytics. Reloading or closing the tab clears them. Printing or copying creates a copy under your control; the contact form does not receive your entries. Keep this estimate with your readiness worksheet or evidence record. For each scenario, record the source/reference, measured period and owner role; mark measured inputs versus assumptions, uncertainty or ranges, and unresolved questions. Copy or print both records before leaving their pages; entries are not carried between pages. Start an enquiry with a non-confidential description only. Base scenario Active users in this workflow: Not entered people Shifts worked per person per week: Not entered shifts/person/week Duration of one shift: Not entered minutes/shift Net minutes released per person per shift: Not entered minutes/person/shift Working weeks per year: Not entered weeks/year Loaded hourly labour cost, optional: Not entered currency/hour Annual working hours per FTE, optional: Not entered hours/FTE/year Complete the required fields. No estimate has been calculated yet. How this is calculated annual_hours_released = active_users * shifts_per_person_week * net_minutes * working_weeks / 60 indicative_capacity_value = annual_hours_released * hourly_cost capacity_equivalent = annual_hours_released / annual_fte_hours
Measure the whole task
Include finding the information, checking the source and escalating when the answer is unclear. Compare that with the current process for similar questions. A quicker first answer is not a saving if the worker then spends longer correcting it. Enter net minutes released per person per shift after that review effort.
Count the people who will actually use it
Use the intended user population and realistic shift frequency. Do not multiply a full headcount by shifts worked by the whole plant. If adoption varies, reduce the effective user count or apply an explicit usage factor. The estimate should describe expected use, not merely the number of available accounts.
Distinguish useful time from removed cost
The result shows work capacity that may be redeployed. Payroll savings require an actual change in expenditure. Where the benefit is faster recovery from a stopped machine, use a downtime model and avoid adding the same minutes again here. Document preparation, access controls, evaluation and continuing knowledge updates belong in the project cost.
About this estimate
Illustrative scenario only. This is not a quote, forecast, guarantee or verified customer outcome. Confirm the baseline, avoid overlapping benefits and include delivery and operating costs before approving investment.
Your entries stay in this browser tab. They are not sent to NeoBram or included in analytics. Reloading or closing the tab clears them. Printing or copying creates a copy under your control; the contact form does not receive your entries.
More clarity
Questions and answers
Do saved minutes equal fewer employees?
No. They describe capacity; how that capacity is used determines its business value.
What if we do not know the minutes saved?
Sample the existing task first, then test the proposed workflow on comparable questions.
Does this result include project costs?
The main result is a gross scenario. The optional cash-based investment view uses your separate realizable cash-benefit estimate and deducts implementation and operating costs. It does not automatically turn capacity or exposure into cash savings.
Are my inputs sent to NeoBram?
No. Calculation runs in your browser tab. Your entries are not sent through analytics or passed to the contact form. You can choose to print or copy a summary yourself.
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