Industrial Cleaning, Washing & Parts Cleanliness worked example

Contamination Failure Cost at 110% failure cost scope included: a worked example

What does the result look like when failure cost scope included reaches 110%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when particle, residue, oil, or cleaning failures create scrap, warranty, field return, or customer containment risk.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Contaminated or failed parts: 85 parts (unchanged)
  • Cost per contamination failure: 240 $ / part (unchanged)
  • Failure cost scope included: 110 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 100)
  • Fixed containment and customer response cost: 7,500 $ (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Variable contamination failure cost = contaminated or failed parts × cost per contamination failure × failure cost scope included) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 29,940 $ for total contamination failure cost, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 352 $ / part for cost per contamination failure.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 22,440 $ for variable contamination failure cost.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 7,500 $ for fixed containment and customer response cost.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where failure cost scope included sits at 100% and the headline result is 27,900 $, this scenario comes in 7.31% above the baseline at 29,940 $.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when failure cost scope included is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It uses a single average cost per part and a fixed lump sum; it will not capture long-tail effects like lost future business or warranty claims that surface months later.

Results at a glance

  • Total contamination failure cost: 29,940 $ (headline result)
  • Cost per contamination failure: 352 $ / part
  • Variable contamination failure cost: 22,440 $
  • Fixed containment and customer response cost: 7,500 $

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Contamination Failure Cost calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.