A manufacturer's maintenance agent avoids one class of unplanned downtime on a single line. The draft analysis claims company-wide savings across plants and lines the agent does not watch. What should the analysis use as the benefit?
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Short Explanation
Stopping one machine from failing is not a promise that every plant just got cheaper. You limit the benefit to the downtime class this agent avoids on the line it watches. A company-wide claim counts lines the agent does not touch.
Full Explanation
The benefit has to match the process the agent changes. This agent avoids one class of unplanned downtime on a single line, so the analysis should use that downtime and not a company-wide savings claim that pulls in plants and lines the agent does not watch. A company-wide figure will show a return the maintenance logs cannot support and will disappoint the first time another line fails for a different reason. Restating the license price as the benefit puts a cost on the gain side and leaves the avoided downtime out, so the case states what was bought rather than what changed. A staffing reduction at plants that do not run the watched line invents a labor saving in places the agent does not affect. Exam caveat: if the agent is later pointed at a second line, the benefit can grow by that line's same downtime class. It does not jump to every plant by assumption. Operational check: tie the benefit line to the downtime class and the line in the maintenance log, and reject a draft that states a company-wide total without that scope. Another plant enters the case only after the agent is actually watching a line there.