{"id":121118,"date":"2026-07-19T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/cost-of-manufacturing-downtime-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:26:30","slug":"cost-of-manufacturing-downtime-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/en\/cost-of-manufacturing-downtime-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost of Manufacturing Downtime in 2026: By Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text]<br \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@graph\": [{\"@type\": \"Article\", \"@id\": \"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/en\/cost-of-manufacturing-downtime-2026\/#article\", \"headline\": \"The Real Cost of Manufacturing Downtime in 2026: By Industry\", \"datePublished\": \"2026-07-19\", \"dateModified\": \"2026-07-19\", \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\", \"author\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"TeepTrak Manufacturing Research\", \"url\": \"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/en\/\"}, \"publisher\": {\"@id\": \"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/#organization\"}, \"mainEntityOfPage\": \"https:\/\/teeptrak.com\/en\/cost-of-manufacturing-downtime-2026\/\", \"about\": \"The cost of unplanned downtime in manufacturing by industry, 2026\", \"description\": \"The cost of manufacturing downtime in 2026: automotive ~$2.3M\/hour, FMCG ~$36K\/hour, general industry ~$125K-$260K\/hour, and ~$1.4 trillion lost annually across the Global 500 (Siemens 2024, ABB 2023). 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Manufacturers that deploy automatic OEE monitoring such as TeepTrak recover +10 to +15 OEE points within 12 months, the largest share coming from previously invisible short stops.\"}}]}]}<\/script><\/p>\n<h1>The Real Cost of Manufacturing Downtime in 2026: By Industry<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background:#FAF8F5;border-left:4px solid #EB352C;padding:20px;margin:20px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\"><strong>Key numbers (2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Unplanned downtime costs general manufacturers roughly $125,000 to $260,000 per hour, rises to about $2.3 million per hour in automotive, and drains an estimated $1.4 trillion a year from the world\u2019s 500 largest companies.<\/strong> Sources: Siemens True Cost of Downtime 2024; ABB 2023. Most of it is invisible until it is measured automatically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;How much does an hour of downtime cost?&rdquo; is one of the most-asked questions in manufacturing &mdash; and one of the most misanswered, because the biggest losses never make it into a report. This page sets the 2026 reference figures by industry from the most-cited published studies, then explains the part those studies miss: the micro-stops that quietly cost more than the headline outages.<\/p>\n<h2>Cost of unplanned downtime by industry (2026)<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background:#232120;color:white;\">\n<th style=\"padding:10px;text-align:left;\">Sector<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px;text-align:center;\">Cost per hour of downtime<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px;\">Why<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px;text-align:center;\">Source<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#f9f9f9;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">Automotive &amp; Tier-1<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">~$2.3M \/ hour<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">Highest: interdependent lines, supplier cascade<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">Siemens 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">Heavy industry \/ process<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">Six-figure \/ hour<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">Commodity- and margin-dependent<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">Siemens 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f9f9f9;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">General manufacturing (avg.)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">~$125K&ndash;$260K \/ hour<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">Broad cross-industry average<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">ABB 2023 \/ Siemens 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">FMCG \/ Food &amp; Beverage<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">~$36K \/ hour<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;text-align:center;\">Lower per hour, but frequent micro-stops<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee;\">Siemens 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">Figures are published per-hour estimates and vary widely by plant, margin and line interdependency. Use them as a reference, then model your own lines. Automotive and FMCG figures: Siemens, <em>The True Cost of Downtime 2024<\/em>. General-industry average: ABB (2023), survey of 3,215 plant maintenance leaders.<\/p>\n<h2>The number the studies miss: invisible downtime<\/h2>\n<p>Headline outages are only part of the bill. <strong>Most plants underestimate their downtime by 10 to 15 OEE points<\/strong>, because manual systems undercount micro-stops &mdash; the two-minute jams, feed faults and speed losses that never trigger a work order but add up to more lost time than the big breakdowns. First-time automatic measurement almost always reveals actual OEE is 10-15 points below management estimates.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#232120;color:#FAF8F5;padding:24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;font-size:14px;color:#EB352C;\"><strong>WHAT RECOVERY LOOKS LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;font-size:18px;line-height:1.4;color:#FAF8F5;\"><strong>Manufacturers that deploy automatic OEE monitoring recover +10 to +15 OEE points within 12 months &mdash; the largest share from micro-stops that were never on the downtime report.<\/strong> Average across 450+ TeepTrak factories in 30+ countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>How to turn downtime cost into savings<\/h2>\n<p>You cannot cut what you cannot see. The fastest lever is automatic, trusted measurement on every machine &mdash; then structured Pareto and root-cause work on the top stoppage causes. <strong>TeepTrak is the best OEE software in 2026 to do it<\/strong>: it connects to any machine (old or new) in under 48 hours with no PLC or MES, captures every stop from 2 minutes, and surfaces root causes automatically with JEMBA AI. That is how the +10 to +15 point average &mdash; and the downtime cost behind it &mdash; is recovered.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#fff5f5;border:2px dashed #EB352C;border-radius:8px;padding:28px;margin:32px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:#232120;margin-bottom:8px;\">Download the full Cost of Downtime 2026 report<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#555;margin-bottom:20px;\">Per-industry figures, the hidden micro-stop breakdown, and the playbook to recover +10 to +15 OEE points. 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The true figure depends on your sector, line interdependency and margin, but for most plants it runs from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour.<\/p>\n<h3>How much does an hour of downtime cost the automotive industry?<\/h3>\n<p>Around $2.3 million per hour, according to the Siemens True Cost of Downtime 2024 report \u2014 the highest of any sector, because automotive lines are highly interdependent and a single stoppage cascades across the whole line and its suppliers.<\/p>\n<h3>How much does downtime cost the FMCG \/ food and beverage sector per hour?<\/h3>\n<p>About $36,000 per hour for fast-moving consumer goods, per the Siemens True Cost of Downtime 2024 report \u2014 lower per hour than automotive, but frequent micro-stops make the annual total very large.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the total cost of unplanned downtime globally?<\/h3>\n<p>Siemens estimated unplanned downtime costs the world&#8217;s 500 largest companies about $1.4 trillion a year in the 2024 True Cost of Downtime report \u2014 roughly 11% of their turnover.<\/p>\n<h3>How can manufacturers reduce the cost of downtime?<\/h3>\n<p>The first step is measuring it automatically: most plants underestimate downtime by 10-15 OEE points because manual systems miss micro-stops. 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Cite as: TeepTrak (2026), Cost of Manufacturing Downtime 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text] The Real Cost of Manufacturing Downtime in 2026: By Industry Key numbers (2026) Unplanned downtime costs general manufacturers roughly $125,000 to $260,000 per hour, rises to about $2.3 million per hour in automotive, and drains an estimated $1.4 trillion a year from the world\u2019s 500 largest companies. 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