Free tools
Manufacturing calculators
13 free calculators covering the metrics manufacturing teams actually track — reliability, throughput, quality, and the business case for fixing what they find. Every formula is shown, not hidden behind the result.
Reliability & availability
How much of a machine's time is actually usable, and how it fails and recovers.
OEE calculator
Availability × Performance × Quality in one score.
Availability calculator
Two standard ways to measure uptime, side by side.
MTBF calculator
Average operating time between failures.
MTTR calculator
Average time to repair a failure.
Machine utilization calculator
Actual run time against total available plant time.
Throughput & pace
How fast you're running, and how fast you need to run.
Cycle time calculator
Actual, measured time per unit produced.
Takt time calculator
The pace required to meet customer demand.
Production rate calculator
Units produced per hour — cycle time inverted.
Capacity calculator
Theoretical and effective maximum output for a period.
Quality
What share of output is right the first time — feeds directly into OEE's Quality component.
Business case
What downtime actually costs, and what closing the gap is worth.
Every one of these, computed continuously
These calculators are for a single machine over a single period, entered by hand. ThingConnect computes all of them continuously, for every machine on your floor, straight from controller data — no manual time log or spreadsheet required.