Adhesives, Sealants & Industrial Bonding worked example
Bond Inspection Workload at 14% documentation and retest allowance: a worked example
Suppose documentation and retest allowance falls to 14%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate inspection hours for bonded assemblies from inspection points, inspection throughput, and documentation allowance.
The inputs for this scenario
- Bond joints to inspect: 720 points (held at the documented default)
- Inspection rate per inspector: 6 points/min (held at the documented default)
- Documentation and retest allowance: 14 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 20)
Working through the calculation
- The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base inspection time = bond inspection points รท inspection throughput.
- Bond inspection workload works out to 137 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
- Base inspection time works out to 120 hr at these inputs.
- Documentation/retest allowance works out to 14 % at these inputs.
- Inspection throughput works out to 6 points/min at these inputs.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where documentation and retest allowance sits at 20% and the headline result is 144 hr, this scenario comes in 5% below the baseline at 137 hr.
- It computes total bond inspection labor hours by dividing joint count by inspection throughput and then inflating that base time for documentation and retest overhead. 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
- Bond inspection workload: 137 hr (headline result)
- Base inspection time: 120 hr
- Documentation/retest allowance: 14 %
- Inspection throughput: 6 points/min
Run it with your numbers
- To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Bond Inspection Workload calculator, set documentation and retest allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.