Manufacturing

CycleTime

Changeover loss tracking for contract manufacturers running mixed lines

Founder, Former Plant Operations Manager

Viktor knew changeovers were eating a fifth of his available capacity, but the MES reported uptime, not the cost of switching. He built CycleTime to make that loss visible in hours and in money, and sold the first three plants on a single screenshot.

$18.4K

MRR

Plants

8 weeks

Time to first sale

Changeover time, scrap, and capacity lost per line against the plant target.

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Line Overview

Plant 2, Ostrava · July 2026

Changeover Time

18.4%

Of available hours

Hours Lost

612

This month

Vs Benchmark

+6.1 pts

Top quartile 12.3%

Recoverable

$284K

Annualised

Changeover performance by line

Line 1, Fill & Seal

42 changeovers · 1.2% scrap at restart

84 min

target 55

Line 2, Blister Pack

38 changeovers · 0.8% scrap at restart

61 min

target 50

Line 3, Bulk Blend

21 changeovers · 2.4% scrap at restart

148 min

target 90

Line 4, Labelling

56 changeovers · 0.4% scrap at restart

34 min

target 30

Line 5, Cartoning

47 changeovers · 1.6% scrap at restart

72 min

target 45

Line 3 runs 65% over target on the longest changeover in the plant. Twenty-one events a month at 58 minutes of avoidable time is 20 hours of capacity, before the scrap cost at restart.

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