Food & Beverage Manufacturing worked example

Canning Line Capacity at 99% canning line availability: a worked example

What does the result look like when canning line availability reaches 99%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it for canned beverages, foods, sauces, pet food, ready-to-drink products, or aerosol-style CPG lines where seaming, filling, coding, and packing losses matter.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Cans filled or seamed per cycle: 48 cans / cycle (unchanged)
  • Available canning cycles in the window: 720 cycles (unchanged)
  • Canning line availability: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 86)
  • First-pass can yield: 98 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross canning line capacity = cans per filler or seamer cycle × available canning cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 33,530 cans for good canning line capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 34,560 cans for gross canning line capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 346 cans for canning line capacity downtime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 684 cans for canning line capacity yield loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where canning line availability sits at 86% and the headline result is 29,127 cans, this scenario comes in 15.12% above the baseline at 33,530 cans.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when canning line availability is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It assumes a steady cycle rate and a single bottleneck operation; it does not model changeover frequency, micro-stops between cans, or back-pressure from downstream depalletizing and packaging.

Results at a glance

  • Good canning line capacity: 33,530 cans (headline result)
  • Gross canning line capacity: 34,560 cans
  • Canning Line Capacity downtime loss: 346 cans
  • Canning Line Capacity yield loss: 684 cans

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.