Forklifts, Lift Equipment & Material Handling Vehicles worked example

Final Test Time at 13% test allowance for retest and documentation: a worked example

This worked example runs the final test time numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 13% test allowance for retest and documentation instead of the typical 18%. Estimate final test time for forklifts, lift trucks, AGVs, tow tractors, batteries, chargers, hydraulics, controls, and safety functions.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Final-test workload: 24 tests (held at the documented default)
  • Final-test completion rate: 3 tests / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Test allowance for retest and documentation: 13 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 18)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base final test time = final-test workload รท final-test completion rate.
  • Adjusted final test time works out to 9.04 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base final test time works out to 8 hr at these inputs.
  • Test allowance for retest and documentation works out to 13 % at these inputs.
  • Final-test completion rate works out to 3 pieces / min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where test allowance for retest and documentation sits at 18% and the headline result is 9.44 hr, this scenario comes in 4.24% below the baseline at 9.04 hr.
  • Use it when planning final-test staffing and bay capacity, or when quoting lead time for a build batch of lift trucks. 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

  • Adjusted final test time: 9.04 hr (headline result)
  • Base final test time: 8 hr
  • Test allowance for retest and documentation: 13 %
  • Final-test completion rate: 3 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Final Test Time calculator, set test allowance for retest and documentation to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.