Fixture, Gauge & Workholding Management worked example

Fixture Capacity at 63% fixture or pallet availability: a worked example in fixture, gauge & workholding management

Suppose fixture or pallet availability falls to 63%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate good production output from fixtures, nests, pallets, or tombstones using parts per cycle, available cycles, fixture uptime, and first-pass yield.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Accepted parts per fixture cycle: 6 parts / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available fixture cycles: 160 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Fixture or pallet availability: 63 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 88)
  • First-pass yield through fixture: 96 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross fixture capacity = accepted parts per fixture cycle × available fixture cycles.
  • Good fixture capacity works out to 581 units at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross fixture capacity works out to 960 units at these inputs.
  • Fixture Capacity downtime loss works out to 355 units at these inputs.
  • Fixture Capacity yield loss works out to 24.19 units at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where fixture or pallet availability sits at 88% and the headline result is 811 units, this scenario comes in 28.41% below the baseline at 581 units.
  • It computes the good (sellable) part output of a fixture by discounting gross capacity for availability and first-pass yield. 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

  • Good fixture capacity: 581 units (headline result)
  • Gross fixture capacity: 960 units
  • Fixture Capacity downtime loss: 355 units
  • Fixture Capacity yield loss: 24.19 units

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Fixture Capacity calculator, set fixture or pallet availability to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.