Transparent business scenario
Downtime Cost Scenario
Estimate an event from unrecovered unit contribution, incremental time-based costs and one-time incident costs. Revenue is not treated as loss, and every assumption remains visible.
Scenario result
This is an explicit user-defined scenario identity. The first term is unrecovered unit contribution, the second is incremental cost that accrues with event duration, and the third is one-time incident cost. Currency selection changes the label only; it performs no exchange-rate conversion.
The US Internal Revenue Service defines gross profit as sales revenue less cost of goods sold. That distinction illustrates why sales price or gross production value should not automatically be labelled downtime cost. Choose a contribution basis consistent with your own management accounts and decision.
Removed claims: the former formula treated full product value as loss and then added labour, which could equate revenue with profit and double count cost. Its FAQ also contained an empty “world-class” target and an unsourced claim that every 1 currency unit of maintenance saves 5–10 units of downtime cost. Those claims and generic presets were removed.
Nikolai Shelkovenko
Nikolai Shelkovenko is a vibration analysis engineer and the founder and CEO of Vibromera. For more than 15 years he has balanced rotating equipment in the field rather than on a test bench: mulchers, industrial fans, crushers, centrifuges, shafts and spindles. That work is what the Balanset instruments grew out of — they were designed as a tool a specialist can carry to the machine and use alone, on site, not as laboratory equipment. Vibromera was founded in 2017 and has been based in Porto, Portugal, since 2023. Development, assembly and support of the Balanset line all happen here. The flagship instrument is the Balanset-1A, a portable analyser for single- and two-plane balancing and for vibration diagnostics. Nikolai is personally involved in customer support, in working through difficult balancing cases and in the development of the software. He works with customers worldwide, in any language.
