AOI Return on Investment Calculator

Calculate The ROI on Your AOI with Mek’s Online Calculator

Mek’s ROI Calculator helps you determine if Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) is right for your electronics manufacturing process. Simply input production and labor details to get:

Potential savings
Payback timeline
ROI insights

Based on industry standards, this tool helps you make informed decisions on optimizing your inspection processes.

Understanding the Calculator Fields

This ROI calculator uses transparent calculations, with formulas visible next to each parameter.

White fields are editable—enter your variables here.
Grey fields are fixed or based on average Mek product performance.
Blue fields show results from calculations based on your inputs.

Hover over the “i” button for more info on each parameter.

Operator Employee wages costs / hour:

$ (or any currency)

Programmer Employee wages costs / hour:

$ (or any currency)

FTE's hours per year (Full Time Employee):

1600 hours

Manual Inspection time per component/THT solder joint: i

0.40 seconds

AOI Inspection time per component/THT solder joint: i

0.06 seconds

AOI Classification & handling time per PCB: i

15.00 seconds

AOI programming time per PCB: i

1 hours

Purchase Price inc. Installation, training and other options:

$ (or any currency)

Residual value @ end of economical life: i

0 $ (or any currency)

Economical lifetime: i

5 years

Interest rate over economical lifetime: i

5 i(%)

PCB's/Year:

PCB's/Batch:

Batches per year:

Diversity Main (different PCB's/year that need to be programmed):

Components (or THT solder joints)/PCB:

Number of components(or THT solder joints) / Year:

0 CPY

Number of batches / Year:

Number of AOI programs / Year:

AOI inspection capacity per machine (PCB's) per shift per year:

View additional calculation values

Manual Inspection

Inspection time per PCB:

0 seconds

Total inspection time per year:

0 hours

FTE's needed (hours per year):

0 FTE

Manual inspection total costs/year:

0 $ (or any currency)

AOI Inspection

Inspection time per PCB:

0 seconds

Inspection time per PCB including classification & handling (s):

0 seconds

Total inspection time per year:

0 hours

AOI programming time per year:

0 hours

Total AOI inspection and programming time per year:

0 hours

FTE's needed for operating & programming AOI:

0 FTE

AOI inspection total operating & programming cost/year:

0 $ (or any currency)

Operational savings AOI vs Manual Inspection per year:

0 $ (or any currency)

AOI Investment Financing

Base Investment:

0 B

Discounted Cash Flow factor (1/(1+i)^n): i

0 DCF

Present value of Residual Value (ann*R): i

0 PV R

Operational savings per year (AOI-Manual insp):

0 a

This is a Future Value (FV) calculation involving interest rate, economical life time and operational savings per year

0 PV a

AOI Investment justification

Investment pay back time:
= (B - PV R) / a

0 Years

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Understanding the Calculator Fields

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