Interactive tool
Automation-Payback Estimator
Three numbers you already know (how many hours the task runs, what an hour costs you, what the robot system would cost) and one honest assumption, and you get an indicative payback band: the number every automation conversation should start from.
Educational and indicative only, not financial advice or a quotation. Nothing you enter is stored or sent.
Total labor hours across all workers and shifts on this specific task.
Wages plus benefits, supervision and overheads, not the base wage alone.
Hardware plus integration, tooling, safeguarding and training: the full quote, not the brochure price.
Robots rarely take a task end to end: exceptions, changeovers and supervision stay human. 60 to 80 percent is a common honest range.
Indicative payback
Fill in the figures and choose Estimate: the result appears here as a band, not a promise.
What this deliberately leaves out
- Financing costs, depreciation and tax treatment: ask your accountant, not a website.
- Integration overruns and downtime during commissioning (common, budget for them).
- Maintenance is assumed flat at 10% of system cost per year; contracts vary.
- Quality and throughput changes, in either direction.
- The value of redeploying people to better work, often the biggest real gain and the hardest to number.