Airport Ground Support Equipment worked example

GSE Paint Booth Capacity at 99% paint booth uptime: a worked example

Push paint booth uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a production planner needs to check whether paint booth capacity can support GSE build and delivery schedules

The inputs for this scenario

  • GSE units painted per booth cycle: 2 jobs/cycle (unchanged)
  • Available paint booth cycles in the period: 96 cycles (unchanged)
  • Paint booth uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 88)
  • First-pass finish yield (no rework): 93 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross paint booth capacity = GSE paint jobs per booth cycle × available booth cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 177 painted units for usable painted gse capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 192 painted units for gross paint booth capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1.92 painted units for capacity lost to downtime.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 13.31 painted units for paint jobs lost to finish rework.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where paint booth uptime sits at 88% and the headline result is 157 painted units, this scenario comes in 12.5% above the baseline at 177 painted units.
  • It computes how many GSE units a paint booth can actually finish per period after applying booth uptime and first-pass finish yield to the gross cycle count. 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 painted GSE capacity: 177 painted units (headline result)
  • Gross paint booth capacity: 192 painted units
  • Capacity lost to downtime: 1.92 painted units
  • Paint jobs lost to finish rework: 13.31 painted units

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live GSE Paint Booth Capacity calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.