Foundry & Forging worked example

Foundry Bottleneck Score with bottleneck severity score of 20 score: a worked example

What does the result look like when bottleneck severity score reaches 20 score? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when comparing constraints such as furnace capacity, core shortages, mold line delays, shakeout, cleaning, inspection, tooling, or labor.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Bottleneck severity score: 20 score (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 8)
  • Bottleneck occurrence score: 6 score (unchanged)
  • Bottleneck detection score: 4 score (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Foundry Bottleneck Score risk score = bottleneck severity score × bottleneck occurrence score × bottleneck detection score) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 11.1 score for foundry bottleneck score risk score, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 20 score for bottleneck severity score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 score for bottleneck occurrence score.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4 score for bottleneck detection score.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where bottleneck severity score sits at 8 score and the headline result is 6.3 score, this scenario comes in 76.19% above the baseline at 11.1 score.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when bottleneck severity score is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. The multiplicative scale is ordinal, not linear — a score of 192 is not literally twice as urgent as 96, so use it to rank, not to do arithmetic on.

Results at a glance

  • Foundry Bottleneck Score risk score: 11.1 score (headline result)
  • Bottleneck severity score: 20 score
  • Bottleneck occurrence score: 6 score
  • Bottleneck detection score: 4 score

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Foundry Bottleneck Score calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.