Aerial equipment rental has a habit of arriving as a surprise. A camera above the palletizer drifts out of alignment, a chiller on the roof needs swapping, an integrator cannot commission a sensor run from a ladder, and somebody phones around for a machine. A day rate comes back, it looks reasonable, and the job gets approved on that figure alone.
Then the invoice lands and it is bigger, for reasons nobody hid.
The rate answered one question: what does the machine cost for the period. The budget needed a different answer: what does the job cost, start to finish, including the hours the plant stood still underneath it. [Read more…] about The True Cost of Aerial Equipment Rental in Automated Facilities