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Module 07 / Costing & Maintenance

Know what the batch really cost

Standard cost says one thing, month-end says another, and nobody can point at the batch where the money leaked. Frontlink builds the cost per batch from what actually happened on the line.

Cost vs standard

Find the batches that ate the margin

Averages hide the damage: one bad run disappears into a monthly figure that looks fine.

Every batch shows its actual cost next to standard, with the variance explained by downtime, scrap, and speed. The expensive habits finally have names and dates.

Maintenance

Maintenance that answers to uptime

Breakdowns interrupt production, and preventive maintenance happens when someone remembers.

Operators raise maintenance requests from the line, planned maintenance lands in the production calendar, and MTBF and MTTR turn the discussion into facts.

Use cases

Problems this solves

Costing closes the loop back to planning

What a batch really cost informs what you plan next, and maintenance windows land in the schedule instead of surprising it.

Questions

Common questions

Where does the actual cost come from?

From execution data: real consumption, real labour time, real downtime, and real scrap per batch, valued automatically. No end-of-month reconstruction.

Does this replace ERP costing?

No, it grounds it. Frontlink explains the operational variance per batch; your ERP keeps the financial books. The two finally tell the same story.

How do maintenance requests reach the right people?

Operators raise them from the line with one tap. Requests carry machine, symptom, and priority, land with maintenance staff instantly, and are tracked to resolution.

Put a price on every batch

Book a demo and see actual versus standard cost on scenarios from your production.

Batch Costing & Maintenance Software | Frontlink