Educational & Classroom Lab Equipment worked example

Educational Equipment Capacity Planner at 99% expected line availability: a worked example

Push expected line availability up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when educational equipment capacity planner in educational and classroom lab equipment is being asked to take on more work and you need to know if there is room.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Good units per production cycle: 4 units / cycle (unchanged)
  • Planned production cycles per shift: 480 cycles / shift (unchanged)
  • Expected line availability: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • Expected first-pass yield: 97 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross scheduled capacity = good units per production cycle × planned production cycles per shift) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,844 units / shift for good educational equipment capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,920 units / shift for gross scheduled capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 19.2 units / shift for availability capacity loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 57.02 units / shift for first-pass yield loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where expected line availability sits at 90% and the headline result is 1,676 units / shift, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 1,844 units / shift.
  • It computes good (sellable, first-pass-accepted) educational equipment units producible per shift after availability and yield losses. 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

  • Good educational equipment capacity: 1,844 units / shift (headline result)
  • Gross scheduled capacity: 1,920 units / shift
  • Availability capacity loss: 19.2 units / shift
  • First-pass yield loss: 57.02 units / shift

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Educational Equipment Capacity Planner calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.