The hidden cost of manual machine tending. Your numbers.
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Every input is something a Formic engineer would ask to scope a cell. Set the sliders and selects to your shop — your numbers update on the right as you go.
What are we tending?
Spindle uptime is everything. Most shops lose 20–40% of available spindle time to operator-bound load/unload, breaks, and shift changes.
What's an hour of spindle worth?
The dark third shift. Most manufacturers can't staff a third shift on tended machines — leaving paid-off equipment idle every night.
Where's the time going?
Six hidden costs hit a tended cell — lost spindle time, the dark shift, turnover, quality escapes, overtime, and deferred growth. None of them show up on the time card.
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