Commercial Vehicle, Bus & Coach Manufacturing worked example
Paint Cure Throughput at 99% paint shop operating efficiency: a worked example
Push paint shop operating efficiency up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. checking paint cure output for vehicle bodies and panels
The inputs for this scenario
- Cured bodies or panel sets completed: 22 units (unchanged)
- Paint cure runtime: 8 hr (unchanged)
- Paint shop operating efficiency: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 86)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (Gross paint cure throughput = cured bodies or panel sets รท paint cure runtime) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 2.72 vehicles / hr for effective throughput, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 2.75 vehicles / hr for raw throughput.
- At this operating point the engine returns 99 % for efficiency.
- At this operating point the engine returns 8 hr for paint cure runtime.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where paint shop operating efficiency sits at 86% and the headline result is 2.36 vehicles / hr, this scenario comes in 15.12% above the baseline at 2.72 vehicles / hr.
- It computes effective paint cure throughput in vehicles per hour by taking gross output over runtime and derating it by paint shop operating efficiency. 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
- Effective throughput: 2.72 vehicles / hr (headline result)
- Raw throughput: 2.75 vehicles / hr
- Efficiency: 99 %
- paint cure runtime: 8 hr
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live Paint Cure Throughput calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.