The cost of manual packing is rarely just wages
Most automation projects are not lost on technical grounds — they are lost because the internal business case was thinner than the decision required. Machine price against operator salaries understates the return and invites the objection that labour is cheap.
Our End-of-Line Automation ROI Calculator helps you build a directional business case on your own plant data — overtime, breakage, constrained upstream capacity and output variability, not wages alone.
What you enter
- Current line speed and target speed
- Shifts per day
- Operators at the packing station
- Average fully loaded wage
- Reject or breakage rate
What you get back
- An indicative directional result
- A downloadable PDF summary
- The cost categories your case should cover
- A defined next step with our engineering team
Why it stays indicative
Payback is an output of your product, speeds, shift pattern, wage structure and damage rates — not a property of a machine. A defensible number can only follow a line assessment, which is why we publish no assumed savings or payback figures here.
Disclaimer: results are directional and based solely on the figures you enter. They are not a commercial offer or a guaranteed outcome. Calculation logic to be finalised