Additive Manufacturing worked example

Additive Production Capacity at 63% am cell uptime: a worked example

Suppose am cell uptime falls to 63%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate good additive production output from build capacity, available cycles, uptime, and accepted yield.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Build output per cycle: 75 parts / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available build cycles: 12 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • AM cell uptime: 63 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 88)
  • Accepted part yield: 95 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross production capacity = build output per cycle × available build cycles.
  • Good production capacity works out to 539 parts at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross print capacity works out to 900 parts at these inputs.
  • Uptime capacity loss works out to 333 parts at these inputs.
  • Rejected part loss works out to 28.35 parts at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where am cell uptime sits at 88% and the headline result is 752 parts, this scenario comes in 28.41% below the baseline at 539 parts.
  • It computes good production capacity by multiplying build output per cycle by available cycles to get gross capacity, then applying AM cell uptime and accepted part yield. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Good production capacity: 539 parts (headline result)
  • Gross print capacity: 900 parts
  • Uptime capacity loss: 333 parts
  • Rejected part loss: 28.35 parts

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Additive Production Capacity calculator, set am cell uptime to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.