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TDC - True Downtime Cost
Definition:
A method of recording and analyzing all significant cost
metrics associated with equipment downtime in a building or manufacturing
facility.
TDC provides a way to assign time and/or monetary value to
previously considered “non-tangible” cost of downtime.
Also TDC includes downtime factors commonly overlook to
arrive at a more true value for the cost of downtime.
In viewing the Cost Factors below, one might think
micro-analyze, but the fact is, most of this data is already being collected,
and in your computer systems.
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on one of the cost factors below to learn more, or ...
With all these categories, it may appear to be too much to monitor and
analyze. Click here to see why there is no need to sound the "Data
Overload" alarm.