Additive Manufacturing Service Bureau Quoting worked example
Service Bureau Capacity at 63% printer uptime and availability: a worked example
Suppose printer uptime and availability 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 service bureau output from parts per build cycle, available build cycles, printer uptime, and accepted yield.
The inputs for this scenario
- Good parts nested per build cycle: 48 parts / cycle (held at the documented default)
- Build cycles available in the period: 14 cycles (held at the documented default)
- Printer uptime / availability: 63 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 88)
- Accepted part yield after inspection: 94 % (held at the documented default)
Working through the calculation
- The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross service bureau capacity = parts per cycle × available build cycles.
- Good quote capacity works out to 398 parts at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
- Gross build capacity works out to 672 parts at these inputs.
- Printer availability loss works out to 249 parts at these inputs.
- Rejected part loss works out to 25.4 parts at these inputs.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where printer uptime and availability sits at 88% and the headline result is 556 parts, this scenario comes in 28.41% below the baseline at 398 parts.
- It computes deliverable good-part capacity by taking gross nested capacity and discounting it for printer uptime and post-inspection accepted 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 quote capacity: 398 parts (headline result)
- Gross build capacity: 672 parts
- Printer availability loss: 249 parts
- Rejected part loss: 25.4 parts
Run it with your numbers
- To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Service Bureau Capacity calculator, set printer uptime and availability to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.