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Cycle time is one of the most telling indicators of machine and process health — but only if you're measuring it consistently. This free template gives your team a structured way to log actual vs. ideal cycle times by machine, part, and shift, so you can spot where throughput is slipping before it compounds into a missed schedule.
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Cycle time variance is one of the earliest warning signs of a process breaking down — and one of the least consistently tracked metrics on most production floors. When actual cycle times drift above ideal, it usually means something has changed: tooling wear, material inconsistency, an operator workaround, or a machine running outside spec. Without a log, that drift goes unnoticed until it shows up as a missed shipment or a quality escape. This free Excel cycle time tracker gives your operators and supervisors a single, structured place to record actual vs. ideal cycle times by machine, part number, and shift. The built-in Summary Dashboard automatically surfaces variance by machine and part, so you can see where your biggest gaps are without any manual analysis. It won't replace a real-time monitoring system — but it will show you exactly why you need one.
Manual cycle time tracking captures what people remember to log — and it's almost always incomplete. Small deviations get rounded. Slow cycles during shift transitions go unrecorded. And because data entry happens after the fact, the averages you're working from are already stale by the time anyone reviews them. A spreadsheet can't alert you when cycle times start trending in the wrong direction. It can't tell you at 9 AM that you're already running 12% slower than ideal. And it can't help you separate a one-off anomaly from a recurring pattern without hours of manual sorting. By the time the data is clean enough to act on, the production window is gone.
Caddis Systems captures every cycle automatically — logged to the second, compared against your ideal cycle times, and visible in real time on floor dashboards your operators and supervisors can access from anywhere. No manual entry. No averaged-out estimates. No waiting until end of shift to find out you've been running 15% slow all day. If you find yourself spending more than 30 minutes a week filling out or reviewing a cycle time spreadsheet, Caddis will pay for itself in the first month.
