Resources
This page contains articles, videos, tools and special offers by John R Henry.
Articles and other writings
Why the costs you can't put on a spreadsheet might matter more than the ones you can.
Speed doesn't matter. Production rate does.
Videos
A closer look at the tangible and intangible costs of downtime and changeover
Rotating Gauge
This simple 3D printed fixture will save you tens of thousands of dollars every year
Quick Change Sprockets
Can you implement bicycle technology on your line? John Henry explains why you should in this video
Tools
No information is saved anywhere when the calculators are used online. Alternately, you may download them by right clicking and selecting Save As, downloading and running offline in any browser.
10W - 40 10 minutes of changeover or other downtime, repeated daily, costs 40 hours per year of lost production. (Single shift) On a line running 200ppm, that's 480,000 products not produced.
Use the Changeover Downtime Loss Calculator to find out how much changeover is costing you.
The cost of inefficiency can be calculated and it may be more than you think. Just 2 percentage points, whether from 80% to 78% or 45% to 43% cost 40 hours of lost production per year, single shift. Our Production Efficiency Gain Calculator allows you to plug in a couple of parameters, your efficiency improvement target and see exactly how much even a few points will benefit you.
Not sure where to start? Book a free 20-minute Capacity Discovery Call and we'll figure it out together.
John Henry | The Changeover Wizard 📞 1-787-550-9650 ✉️ johnhenry@changeover.com