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How much does the inefficiency you see every day really cost you?

Margin Driver translates downtime, setups, inefficiencies and scrap into margin loss, and shows which action pays off most.

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Economic analysis by resource in Margin Driver: economic loss for the period and loss ranking

Do these situations sound familiar?

  • The MES collects plenty of data, but nobody can say what the inefficiencies are worth in euros.
  • Improvement priorities are set on the impression of whoever is closest to the problem.
  • It is unclear whether to add a shift, a machine or a person, or to make better use of what is already there.
  • Every investment proposal needs a return estimate that nobody can build from real data.

How Margin Driver works.

  1. 1

    Collects the facts

    Downtime, setups, production speed and scrap, taken from MES data, including systems from other vendors.

  2. 2

    Quantifies the loss

    Translates each inefficiency into its economic impact, making problems of different kinds comparable.

  3. 3

    Simulates improvement actions

    Compares different improvement scenarios and estimates their economic effects.

  4. 4

    Identifies the priority

    Highlights the economic bottleneck to act on and the expected payback time.

Information available

  • Margin lost to downtime, setups, slowdowns and scrap
  • Economic comparison between improvement scenarios
  • Estimated payback time of improvement actions
  • Economic bottleneck of the plant

Decisions supported

  • Which problem to tackle first, with the same resources
  • Whether an investment pays for itself, and how quickly
  • Whether additional capacity is needed or existing capacity can be recovered

Who uses it every day

  • Owners and senior management
  • Management control
  • Plant manager

Dependencies and integrations

Margin Driver works on top of an existing MES, including one from another vendor, or on top of Fabrika Production: it can therefore make the most of the data the company already has without forcing the replacement of the system in use.

It uses the production data already collected and the company's economic parameters to link production events to the income statement.

Margin Driver at work.

Scenario comparison in Margin Driver: recovered margin, investment, payback and residual loss against the current situation

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It starts with a pilot project.

The pilot project starts from the data already available within a defined scope, to check the quality of the economic information obtained before extending the analysis.

See how we work

Let's start from what happens in your factory today.

Tell us which process you want to control or improve. In the initial conversation we will assess together whether Margin Driver is the right starting point.

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