Excessive Equipment Downtime from Reactive Maintenance

$50,000+ in annual downtime and emergency repairs per key equipment piece. • For a mid‑size logging contractor serving a sawmill, 50% higher downtime versus planned preventive maintenance can easily translate into $40,000–$80,000 per month in lost production margin, rush mobile-mechanic callouts, emergency parts markups, excess fuel burned by idling or re-routed equipment, and mill penalties or price discounts tied to unreliable delivery. • For a pulp and paper mill dependent on steady chip and pulpwood supply, unplanned logging equipment downtime can drive $100,000–$300,000 per month in combined costs from lost production time, overtime to catch up, premium fiber sourcing, emergency freight, and inflated repair and parts expenses pushed back through wood-supply contracts.

Manual logging in Excel spreadsheets or paper logs at remote sites. • The logging contractor and the scaling/measurement technician coordinate around outages using phone calls, text/WhatsApp, and ad‑hoc Excel or paper logs of which machine is down, what was repaired last time, and rough fuel/repair cost notes to justify demurrage or production loss in settlement discussions with the mill. • The scaling/measurement technician and contractor improvise with Excel-based delivery and downtime logs, back-and-forth emails and messages, and informal notes about recent breakdowns and repair spends to explain deviations from supply plans to the pulp and paper mill.