Agricultural Equipment & Farm Machinery Manufacturing worked example

Final Test Throughput at 99% final test station uptime: a worked example in agricultural equipment & farm machinery manufacturing

Push final test station uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a production or quality manager needs to confirm final test capacity before releasing machines to dealers

The inputs for this scenario

  • Machines tested per cycle: 6 machines/cycle (unchanged)
  • Available final test cycles: 110 cycles (unchanged)
  • Final test station uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • First-pass final test yield: 87 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross final test throughput = machines tested per cycle × available final test cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 568 tested machines for usable final test throughput, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 660 tested machines for gross final test throughput.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6.6 tested machines for throughput lost to test station downtime.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 84.94 tested machines for throughput lost to test failures.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where final test station uptime sits at 90% and the headline result is 517 tested machines, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 568 tested machines.
  • It computes usable final-test throughput as machines per cycle times available cycles, then derated by test-station uptime and first-pass test yield, and isolates the units lost to each. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Usable final test throughput: 568 tested machines (headline result)
  • Gross final test throughput: 660 tested machines
  • Throughput lost to test station downtime: 6.6 tested machines
  • Throughput lost to test failures: 84.94 tested machines

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Final Test Throughput calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.