Cost of Downtime Report
These are the key findings of this report, a review of the true costs of downtime to manufacturers and industrial organizations over the past five years. At the bottom end, the costs of a lost hour are now $36,000 in Fast Moving Consumer Goods. At the top end, they are $2.3 million in the Automotive sector – or more than $600 a second. Faced with these kinds of costs, companies have been forced to try to cut downtime ruthlessly.