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RT · CR · DR Technology Comparator for cost, productivity & QA/QC impact

This tool models the cost, productivity, and quality impact of three radiography technologies: conventional film (RT), Computed Radiography (CR), and Digital Radiography (DR), including how PROtect's proprietary AI-enabled analysis and digital field reporting change each one.

To use it: start in Operating Assumptions and enter your own labor rates, crew volume, and equipment costs. From there, toggle AI Analysis and Digital Field Reporting on each technology panel to see time and cost shift live, then scroll through Time Breakdown, Results, Workforce, and Pricing Model for the full picture.

01Configure the model
Labor & Review Rates
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Baseline Process Time: RT (Conventional)
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Digital Capture Efficiency: CR % of RT baseline minutes retained. CR and DR share the same default; adjust independently if your fleet data differs.
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Digital Capture Efficiency: DR DR's detector usually reads out faster than CR's plate scan. Lower DR's retained % (or raise CR's) if your fleet data differs.
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Equipment & Consumables ($/shot) These bill separately from labor under T&M: film/chemistry, plate wear, panel upkeep. Edit to match your billed rates.
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02RT · CR · DR side by side

Technology Comparison

Toggle AI analysis and field reporting per technology. Figures update live.
RTConventional (Film)
44.0min / shot
$32.74/ shot
Baseline reference

Film-based capture. Requires chemical processing and physical archiving.

Requires digitizing each developed film sheet first. Adds 0.5 min and $0.27/shot before AI analysis or digital reporting can run.
Eval. time retained 25%
Time reduction 75%
CRComputed Radiography
32.1min / shot
$23.26/ shot
−27% time · −29% cost vs. RT
Eval. time retained 25%
Time reduction 75%
DRDigital Radiography
32.1min / shot
$23.26/ shot
−27% time · −29% cost vs. RT
Eval. time retained 25%
Time reduction 75%
03Where the minutes go

Time per shot: full process breakdown

Bars scale to relative total time. A bar half as wide takes half as long.

Each swatch group below reads left to right as RT (gray) · CR (red) · DR (blue) for that process step.

04Cost, productivity & quality

Results

How the numbers land across cost, throughput, and QA coverage.

Cost

AI Analysis Price-Book Opportunity Capture 100% of automation value

Enable AI-Enabled Analysis on CR or DR to size a price-book opportunity for automated review.

Productivity

Quality & QA

  • ALARA / radiation safety: shorter exposure windows on CR/DR cut the time the source is active, supporting as-low-as-reasonably-achievable dose practice.
  • Retake risk: film defects only surface after chemical processing, often after the crew has left. CR/DR show the image right away, so retakes happen on site.
  • Regulatory note: some codes still require qualified human review regardless of AI capability. Confirm AI-assisted analysis meets your code and client acceptance criteria first.
05Staffing & incentives

Workforce & Incentives

Same annual demand, fewer crew-hours. What that means for staffing and incentives.

Managing the Transition: Time, Accountability & Incentives

Faster cycle times don't cut the number of inspections a customer needs. They cut the crew-hours it takes to deliver them. Capturing that gain takes two things:

  • Time & accountability oversight: confirming crews actually work at the faster pace instead of stretching the same shift with more idle time. That means real utilization tracking, not just clock-in/clock-out records.
  • A productivity incentive: a technician who works faster has little reason to unless some of that value comes back to them. The model below funds an incentive pool from the freed labor value, before counting the rest as savings.
Redirect 25% of freed labor value to a technician incentive pool

CR: Crew & Incentive Impact

DR: Crew & Incentive Impact

06How PROtect gets paid

Pricing Model: From Time & Materials to Quality-Driven Output

Moving from billing raw hours to a fixed, contracted rate per inspection.

PROtect already charges for the technology itself. The AI analysis price-book opportunity above is one way that value gets captured today. Longer-term, PROtect wants to move away from time-and-materials billing, where revenue shrinks as crews get faster, toward a quality-driven, per-inspection model: a fixed rate per inspection, benchmarked against the customer's own historical spend, so the customer sees a clear contracted saving while PROtect gets paid for outcomes rather than hours.

Set Your Rates

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Both are placeholders. Replace with your customer's actual benchmark and proposed rate.

Projected Impact

Customer saves vs. their historical benchmark$0$0.00 / inspection
PROtect value capture above DR's modeled cost$0$0.00 / inspection · vs. billing raw T&M hours at DR's faster pace
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