Predictive maintenance benefit estimator
Estimate the value of reducing unplanned downtime
Start with a defined group of assets and a measured outage baseline. Test whether the opportunity is large enough to investigate.
BUILD YOUR SCENARIO
Enter your own baseline
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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
Use one for a de-duplicated plant-wide total.
Use non-overlapping downtime in the chosen scope.
Use an avoidable consequence supported by finance, rather than gross sales revenue.
Use a hypothesis based on detectable, actionable failures.
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
- Baseline unplanned downtimeNumber of comparable assets * Average annual unplanned downtime per asset
- Baseline downtime cost exposureBaseline unplanned downtime * Approved consequence per downtime hour
- Potential avoided downtimeBaseline unplanned downtime * Assumed downtime reduction / 100
- Gross avoided-downtime valuePotential avoided downtime * Approved consequence per downtime hour
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
Predictive maintenance 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 Number of comparable assets: Not entered assets Average annual unplanned downtime per asset: Not entered hours/asset/year Approved consequence per downtime hour: Not entered currency/hour Assumed downtime reduction: Not entered % Complete the required fields. No estimate has been calculated yet. How this is calculated baseline_asset_hours = assets * downtime_hours baseline_exposure = baseline_asset_hours * hourly_consequence avoided_asset_hours = baseline_asset_hours * reduction_percent / 100 gross_avoided_downtime_value = avoided_asset_hours * hourly_consequence
Use the downtime you could realistically influence
Enter comparable assets and the average annual unplanned outage hours for each. If several assets stop the same line at the same time, remove overlapping hours before calculating value. The cost per hour should reflect a finance-approved consequence of that lost operating time, rather than multiplying revenue without considering whether production is recovered later.
Choose a defensible improvement assumption
Review past failures with maintenance experts. Which events had a detectable warning, and could the team have acted soon enough? That discussion should shape the scenario. More sensor data does not make every failure predictable, and an alert creates no benefit when an intervention is impossible.
Read the result as gross opportunity
The estimate shows potential avoided downtime value. It excludes sensors, data preparation, integration, engineering and ongoing operation. It also excludes the effort of investigating false alarms. Include those costs before an investment decision, and validate the assumption through a bounded pilot.
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
Can I enter plant-wide downtime?
Use an asset count of one for a non-overlapping plant total, and state that scope clearly.
What if we lack failure labels?
A readiness review can identify useful signals and limitations. It should not promise a failure prediction horizon before evidence supports it.
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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