Agricultural Equipment & Farm Machinery Manufacturing worked example

Paint Booth Load at 29% masking, color change, and rework allowance: a worked example

Suppose masking, color change, and rework allowance falls to 29%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate paint booth hours for farm machinery components from painted parts, booth throughput, and allowance for color changes, masking, flash time, and rework.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Painted machines or large components: 95 parts (held at the documented default)
  • Paint booth throughput pace: 0.32 parts/min (held at the documented default)
  • Masking, color change, and rework allowance: 29 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 40)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base paint booth time = painted machines or components ÷ booth throughput pace, converted to hours.
  • Paint booth load works out to 383 booth hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base paint booth time works out to 297 booth hr at these inputs.
  • Masking, color change, and rework allowance works out to 29 % at these inputs.
  • Paint booth throughput pace works out to 0.32 parts/min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where masking, color change, and rework allowance sits at 40% and the headline result is 416 booth hr, this scenario comes in 7.86% below the baseline at 383 booth hr.
  • It computes total paint booth hours for a batch — base time from parts and throughput, inflated by an allowance for masking, color change, and rework. 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

  • Paint booth load: 383 booth hr (headline result)
  • Base paint booth time: 297 booth hr
  • Masking, color change, and rework allowance: 29 %
  • Paint booth throughput pace: 0.32 parts/min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Paint Booth Load calculator, set masking, color change, and rework allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.