How much do You stand to gain?

Just how much can automation save in your company? And how much will it cost to implement an automation system in the first place? This page lets you fill in a number of basic parameters and gives you a first answer on these questions. If you want to customize the calculations more than what is possible on this page, you can download the return on investment sheet in Excel format.

This page really focusses on direct costs and cost savings. It does not take into account that your error rate will go down because of the standardization involved in automation, nor that your people will be able to give better service to your customers by focusing on the real problems for example.

1. About your company
What is the average number of jobs per day that is processed by your company (jobs on which one or more of the tasks above are run)?
What is the currency you want to use for this ROI calculation?	Euro US Dollar GBP
What is the average cost per hour for the people involved with workflow tasks (in the currency listed above)?

2. About your workflow
Receiving jobs through FTP or email. Read more...	Yes No
Routing jobs based on the customer, folder on the FTP site, job name, job type. Read more...	Yes No
Renaming jobs to identify them, to enforce an internal naming convention, to mark them as processed or checked. Read more...	Yes No
Sending notification emails to customers for job reception or when something goes wrong with a job (wrong job type, errors during distilling, preflight, etc...). Read more...	Yes No
Archiving jobs at various stages in the workflow (originals, results, logs...) on the network, sorted per customer, job ID. Read more...	Yes No
Creating PDF from incoming PostScript, EPS, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress and InDesign files. Read more...	Yes No
Preflighting incoming and generated PDF files. Read more...	Yes No
Color correcting PDF files for various printing conditions. Read more...	Yes No
Setting document properties based on incoming metadata and existing job names (using scripting). Read more...	Yes No

3. Results
SWITCH flavor required to implement the project
Implementation cost (this includes the purchase of all required software, first year maintenance for all included software and the implementation cost through a consultant.
Cost of the project for each subsequent year (yearly maintenance cost).
Total savings for the first year after implementation.
Total savings for each following year.
Project earns back its investment in.

More information?

Want to customize the ROI calculation to make it reflect your own situation? You can download an Excel version of the ROI calculation that you can totally adjust.

Of course we'll be happy to give you more information on how SWITCH can save your company money.