Food & Beverage Manufacturing worked example

Canning Line Capacity at 62% canning line availability: a worked example

This worked example runs the canning line capacity numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 62% canning line availability instead of the typical 86%. Estimate good can output capacity after line availability and first-pass yield losses.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Cans filled or seamed per cycle: 48 cans / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available canning cycles in the window: 720 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Canning line availability: 62 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 86)
  • First-pass can yield: 98 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross canning line capacity = cans per filler or seamer cycle × available canning cycles.
  • Good canning line capacity works out to 20,999 cans at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross canning line capacity works out to 34,560 cans at these inputs.
  • Canning Line Capacity downtime loss works out to 13,133 cans at these inputs.
  • Canning Line Capacity yield loss works out to 429 cans at these inputs.

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 27.91% below the baseline at 20,999 cans.
  • Use it when planning a canning run, validating a customer volume commitment, or benchmarking how much of nameplate speed your line truly delivers. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Good canning line capacity: 20,999 cans (headline result)
  • Gross canning line capacity: 34,560 cans
  • Canning Line Capacity downtime loss: 13,133 cans
  • Canning Line Capacity yield loss: 429 cans

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Canning Line Capacity calculator, set canning line availability to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.