GeoBusinessIQGeoBusinessIQ

Global manufacturing & industrial business intelligence

Operational intelligence for manufacturers, founders, contract manufacturers, private-label operators, procurement teams, distributors, importers and exporters, industrial investors, supply-chain operators and the people building software for them. Every page answers a working question rather than defining a term. Nothing here carries invented factory costs, production volumes, yields or return estimates, and no manufacturer is recommended.

Operational layers

Decision support

Manufacturing calculators

Every calculator runs on figures you supply. This site holds no cost, capacity, yield or benchmark data and never estimates any on your behalf.

  • Production capacity calculator

    Turn stations, shifts and planned downtime into practical capacity, and compare it against the units a period actually demands.

  • Takt time calculator

    Derive the rhythm customer demand sets on a line, and see whether the current cycle time can hold it.

  • Cycle time calculator

    Convert an observed run into cycle time, labour content, value-adding share and the setup burden each unit carries.

  • Throughput calculator

    Find the constraint in a multi-station line, quantify balance loss, and see how far it can be lifted before the limit moves.

  • Scrap rate calculator

    Measure scrap and rework against what entered the process, and cost the loss per good unit that actually shipped.

  • First pass yield calculator

    Multiply stage yields into rolled throughput yield and expose the rework a stage-by-stage view never shows.

  • Machine utilisation calculator

    Split calendar hours into planned, running and lost time, and identify which loss dominates.

  • OEE calculator

    Compute availability, performance and quality separately, multiply them, and convert each loss back into minutes.

  • Production batch size calculator

    Economic production quantity where output builds over time, plus the annual cost of a forced minimum batch.

  • Break-even production calculator

    Carry tooling into unit cost, find the volume that covers fixed cost, and compare full cost against an outside quote.

  • Factory floor utilisation calculator

    Break a plant's floor area into production, storage, circulation and welfare, and cost what non-production space carries.

  • Changeover cost calculator

    Cost changeover time, lost contribution and start-up scrap, and size a setup-reduction effort before committing to it.

Data limitations

  • Manufacturing figures are operator-supplied inputs, not market data. GeoBusinessIQ holds no factory costs, production volumes, yields, cycle times, tooling prices or capacity data and does not estimate them — every result reflects only the figures you enter.
  • No manufacturer, supplier, vendor or factory is recommended, rated or ranked anywhere in this cluster, and no directory of them is published. Selection material describes how to run your own assessment; the assessment itself remains yours.
  • Standards are referenced, never reproduced. Pages describe what a standard governs and point to the issuing body; they do not restate its requirements, and conformity is determined by the standard itself and by an accredited assessment, not by anything here.
  • Plant, process, utility and equipment material is business intelligence, not engineering design. Layout, structural, electrical, mechanical, pressure, ventilation and fire-safety decisions require a qualified engineer working to the codes in force at the site.
  • Worker safety, machinery safety, chemical handling and hazardous-materials duties are set by the law of the jurisdiction and by the risk assessment for the specific workplace. Material here explains the mechanism only and is not a safety determination, a risk assessment, or legal advice.