Waste, Defect & Yield Cost Calculator – True Cost per Good Item & Waste per Year
Find What Waste and Defects Cost — Yield, True Cost per Item, and the Step to Fix
A waste, defect, and yield cost calculator. Enter items per batch, batches per month, recovery value, and up to six production steps with defect rate and cost added at each step to get good items per batch, overall yield, true cost per good item, waste added per item, waste cost per batch, month, and year, the step that wastes the most, and items to start for an order.
What This Spreadsheet Calculates
- Items reaching each step
- Items lost at each step
- Waste cost at each step
- Good items and overall yield
- True cost per good item
- Waste added per good item
- Waste cost per month and year
- Worst step and items to start
Misprints, crooked presses, and broken pieces quietly raise the cost of every good item. Most makers never count them.
Count the waste, then cut it.
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