Do you know how much a maintenance window really costs a short shelf life line? We’ve created a calculator to help you work this out for your site.

What you’ll find in here:
✔ A breakdown of the four costs that make up a missed maintenance window
✔ What decides whether a 48-hour window holds, from a specialist recruiter’s view
✔ An interactive calculator that gives you a cost per hour of overrun for your own line
✔ 2026 UK figures on downtime, the engineering skills gap and unfilled vacancies