Newsroom
Manufacturing calculation guides, cost, and benchmark news.
A daily front page of manufacturing calculation guides, cost and quoting breakdowns, benchmark reports, and shop-floor troubleshooting across every industry.
Today's front page
- The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls a Fourth Week to 279.5 million barrels
- Manufacturing employment by state Rises a Fourth Month to 12.66 million
- Manufacturing overtime hours Climb to $4.10 an hour
- Factory Orders Climb to $677,247.00
- Steel Imports Jump to $2.3 billion in September 2026
- Rubber Falls to $2.9 billion
Newsroom desks
- Calculations desk: worked formulas with real units and numbers for every manufacturing category.
- Cost desk: what drives cost per unit, quoting methods, and where estimates go wrong.
- Benchmarks desk: KPI target ranges and what separates world-class plants from typical ones.
- Mistakes desk: the recurring calculation and process errors that cost real money, and how to catch them.
- Advertising desk: how B2B suppliers reach the engineers and buyers in each manufacturing niche.
From the reference shelf
- Cycle Time Formula
- Takt Time Formula
- OEE Formula
- Throughput Formula
- Line Balance Efficiency Formula
- Conveyor Speed Formula
- Shift Capacity Formula
- Machine Utilization Formula
- Unit Cost Formula
- Labor Cost Formula
- OEE Tracker Spreadsheet Template
- Unit Cost Spreadsheet Template
- Machine Hour Rate Spreadsheet Template
- Job Shop Quote Spreadsheet Template
- Break-Even Analysis Spreadsheet Template
- Standard Cost Variance Spreadsheet Template
- Cycle Time Tracker Spreadsheet Template
- Takt Time Spreadsheet Template
Last reviewed 2026-11-13.