It is natural that in economic times of uncertainty, entrepreneurs are looking for savings. However, it turns out that not always what seems cheap is in fact. A good example are the designated markings.

Reduced moods 

The PMI indicator, which is a mood meter in the production sector, fell to 43.5 points in July. It is less than 45.1 points in June and less than, considered neutral, level 50 points. The level of orders dropped last month in the fastest in eight months. 

It is natural in this situation to strive to minimize the costs of operations. However, if you want to save real terms in a long time, it is worth calculating not only from the perspective of the purchase price, but also how often you need to replace the products and as a result buy again. A bright example of how non -intuitive is which of the solutions is really cheaper, the case of the cottages made of floor windows made compared to high -quality windows produced commercially produced.

12 thousand PLN savings on floor windows

Based on the experiences of tagatic customers with a4 -protected A4 laminates and tests that perform the same high -quality floor windows, we compared the profitability of both solutions. Apart from the costs of working time necessary to make, prepare and stick, the price of a single laminate is about PLN 8 net. As in the conditions of normal traffic in the warehouse, the cottage protected "laminate" lasts 2-3 weeks, the annual cost of a single marking is about PLN 160:

• Suppose the laminate must be replaced every 2.5 weeks;
• During the year it should be replaced in connection with this more than 20 times;
• The annual cost of maintaining a single horizontal marking point is therefore using cottage methods 8 times 20 = 160 PLN.

For comparison: the cost of ordering the High -quality tagatic floor window is associated with costs below PLN 20 (the current price of one piece in our online store is PLN 14 net). Customers' tests in a comparable environment - on a warehouse floor with intensive pedestrian traffic - showed that tagatic floor windows withstand undamaged from 8 to 10 months. So if you assume that 2 products are used a year, the total cost of effective and safe maintenance of a single horizontal marking point using the tagatic windows is below PLN 36 gross per year, i.e. 4 times less than in the case of cottage methods. Even thickening calculations allow you to state that for a plant where there are one hundred points marked using laminates or windows, the annual scale of savings thanks to the use of a seemingly more expensive solution reaches 12,000. PLN:

• The annual cost of cottage preparation, sticking and maintenance by replacing 100 laminates is 160 times 100 = 16 thousand. zloty. - and without taking into account the necessary working time or the risk associated with the use of sharp tools for cutting the tape;
• The annual cost of 2 floor windows needed to mark one point is approximately PLN 40, i.e. 4 thousand. PLN at 100 marking points.

On a five -year scale - if you took into account the 8 -month durability of floor windows - discrepancies grow to PLN 682 to the window (104 changes in laminates each PLN 8 for PLN 2.5 weeks against PLN 7.5 changes in windows for PLN 20 for PLN 20 every 8 months for 60 months), i.e. 68.2 thousand. PLN at one hundred marking points.

What depends on the durability of horizontal markings?

According to the experiences accumulated thanks to many years of cooperation with tagatic clients, we know that the impact on the durability of floor windows and other horizontal markings in magazines and production plants have, among others:

• The intensity and specificity of movement - whether only pedestrians (longer durability) or forklifts (shorter durability) move in a given string;
• Driving culture of forklifts (taging on the floor and the markings of the forks, chests and pallets significantly reduces the life of the markings);
• Using washers and scrubbers (the more often the floor is cleaned and the more chemicals used, the lower the durability of the markings);
• The specificity of the plant's work (for example at the client, in the plant of which there were iron filings, the forklift wheels worked on the designation like friction discs, shortening their service life);
• The quality of the floor, on which the markings are glued:
  • degreasing and cleaning the floor surface before gluing the markings allows the glue to permanently tie up with the floor;
  • all flood unevenness favors the mechanical damage to the stickers;
• gluing surface (solid stickers, in the case of which the entire bottom is covered with glue, take on longer than floor windows, in which only an A4 outline is covered with glue);
• Placement place of stickers (for example, if the markings are placed in the middle of the traffic sequence axis-where the movements make the toklift wheels, the markings withstand much less than those placed only 10-15 cm to the side).

Cheap when buying - expensive to use

Due to such multifactorial interactions, which are important for the durability of horizontal markings, it is difficult to precisely determine without tests how much the sticker will withstand exactly at a given point. Undoubtedly, however, for the most part of cases, it is worth focusing on durability. Perhaps not in every case you will be able to save up to PLN 120 a year at one marking point, but you will certainly avoid tedious storage of markings every several days or several weeks.

Especially in current, forcing search for savings of times, we recommend more durable, bringing long -term benefits of marking. From the experience of our and our clients as to marking, it shows that cheap from the perspective of the purchase price is often expensive in retrospect. It is worth remembering when planning a budget for health and safety and visual management for the next accounting period.