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ROI calculator

How Much Is Manual Processing Costing You?

Enter your own numbers. The calculator shows what the manual task costs today and, on your own assumptions, what automation could save and how long a stated investment would take to pay back.

Your manual process today

Currency is whatever you enter — the arithmetic is the same. Cost per worker should include employer costs.

Your automation assumptions

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% of investment

DOKTEK does not pre-fill these. The labour reduction depends on how much of the task a machine takes over and how many people remain for supply, supervision and cleaning; the investment depends on a configuration that does not exist until an engineering review.

Annual labour cost of the task
38,400
Operator-hours per year
8,000
Estimated automation labour reduction
enter an assumption
Annual potential saving (after maintenance)
Estimated simple payback period
enter investment and reduction

Indicative calculation based entirely on customer-entered assumptions. Actual savings and payback depend on process performance, local costs, utilization and production conditions. DOKTEK publishes no machine ROI, payback period or price; nothing on this page is a quotation.

Next step

Turn the estimate into an engineering review.

The calculator works on your assumptions. A project review replaces the assumptions with a configuration validated on your product — the only basis on which DOKTEK quotes.