How to calculate maintenance costs in Automation hub

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Dear All,

We have a process with high maintenance volume after automating due to our used software’s legacy system and issues when using CV.

We want to include this cost in cost benefit analysis. However, we don’t know how to do it.
Is there any experience to help us?

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Hi @Aida_Azar ,

If your maintenance volume is one-shot after automating, you’d add a new Cost Setup/One time cost implementation People cost. You specify the mean cost of one day maintenance.
If this is a yearly maintenance, you’d go for an Cost Setup/Other running cost where you’ll specify the yearly cost of one FTE.

Then, In the cost benefit analysis tab of your automation card, you choose the matching cost and tell the number of days of maintenance for the former or the estimated number of FTE for the latter.

That should fit the bill, tell me!
BR