Manufacturing Downtime Calculator

Every manufacturing and production business knows downtime is expensive. Very few can put an actual figure on it.

The LoughTec Production Downtime Calculator changes that in seconds. Move the slider to your company's annual revenue, from £500k to £100 million, and instantly see your average revenue loss for one minute, one hour, one day, one week and one month of stopped production.

No forms, no jargon, no waiting. Just the number, and it's usually a bigger number than people expect. 

How the Calculator Works

The calculator takes one input, your company's annual revenue, and then breaks it down across five downtime windows. Monthly and weekly figures are derived directly from annual revenue simply dividing by 12 for months and 52 for weeks respectively. Daily figures are based on a normal 260 production days, and hourly figures assume an eight-hour production day, with the per-minute figure derived as 60 minutes from that.  For a business turning over £52 million a year, a single day of stopped production represents around £200,000 in lost revenue, and even one-minute costs over £400. When a cyber-attack, hardware failure or ransomware incident takes your systems offline, that clock starts running immediately and doesn't stop until you're back up. This calculator exists to make that risk tangible before it happens, because the businesses that recover fastest are the ones that understood the stakes in advance.
 

It's important to understand what this calculator deliberately leaves out.

This is a pure production downtime figure based off your annual revenue for a clean quick snapshot of the potential financial impact downtime has to your business. It does not include various downtime additional costs or impacts like, staff still need paid, orders are delayed, customer confidence falls, SLA or contractual penalties, additional overtime costs, reputational damage etc. 

It also depends on the type of downtime, as if it is cyber-attack related, the costs initially on the raw downtime calculator, plus the additional impacts listed around that previously, this would also have another layer of impacts for items like incident response, consultancy, recovery, remediation costs, ransom demands, regulatory fines, or the longer-term cost of reputational damage. Real incidents almost always cost more than the raw revenue figure shown here.

Think of this number as the floor, not the ceiling. For a wider picture of total incident cost, use it alongside our Cyber Attack Impact Calculator.

Who This Tool Is For

This calculator was built with manufacturing, engineering and production businesses in mind, where output stops the moment systems go down, but it's equally relevant to any organisation whose revenue depends on operational uptime. Managing directors use it to frame boardroom conversations about resilience investment. IT managers use it to build the business case for backup, disaster recovery and managed detection. Finance directors use it to quantify a risk that too often sits on the register as a vague 'high impact' label with no number attached. If you've ever struggled to explain why cybersecurity or business continuity deserves budget, this tool does the explaining for you in one slide.

From Knowing the Cost to Preventing It

Knowing what downtime costs is step one. Making sure you never pay it is step two. LoughTec's Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions are designed to keep your business running through the incidents that stop others cold, with rapid failover, continuous replication and recovery objectives measured in minutes rather than days. When you compare the annual cost of DRaaS against the daily figure this calculator just showed you, the return on investment usually makes itself obvious. Combined with our 24/7 SOC monitoring and ARP® framework of Assess, Remediate and Protect, downtime shifts from an existential risk to a managed one. Ask us about the return on investment for DRaaS and business continuity, and we'll build the comparison around your actual numbers.

Know the Cost of Standing Still.  Then Make Sure You Never Do

Try LoughTec's bespoke Production Downtime Calculator above, explore our full suite of free cybersecurity tools, check out our cyber security maturity score calculator or avail of a free cyber attack assessment to review your business cyber security posture and risk profile, contact LoughTec to start your journey to help proactively protect your critical uptime.