Improvements
Counted at full value. Nothing has to be proven or checked before this money is available.
Only the uptime card is gated. Watching every press recovers hours, but a recovered hour is capacity, not cash, until sales quote and win work to fill it.
Selling the idle presses and dead tooling, plus the cash released when smaller batches shrink the resin and half-finished parts sitting on the floor. Paid once, not every year.
Recover hidden press capacity
Clip-on sensors that track uptime (OEE) on every press, then act on the downtime
Extra profit a year once this is running, after what it costs to run. Profit, not revenue. This one is conditional, so it only lands if the check on the card passes.
Press hours a year the machines sit idle or down that you could be running, counted only for the share sales can fill. An hour nobody buys is worth nothing.
Capex
$75,000
Payback
7 mo
Difficulty
2 / 5
Confidence
Take the padding out of the cycle
Cooling first, then hot runners on the true high-runners
Extra profit a year once this is running, after what it costs to run. Profit, not revenue.
Press time given back by cutting extra cooling time out of the cycle on the busiest molds. It only becomes money when those hours run more sold work.
Capex
$30,000
Payback
5 mo
Difficulty
3 / 5
Confidence
Cut changeover time with SMED
Stage tooling off-press, quick clamps on the worst-changeover presses
Extra profit a year once this is running, after what it costs to run. Profit, not revenue.
Minutes cut off each mold change, time the press spends making parts instead of sitting stopped. It pays once you fill it with sold work or smaller batches.
Capex
$22,000
Payback
5 mo
Difficulty
2 / 5
Confidence