Furniture, Fixtures & Interior Products worked example

Finish Booth Capacity at 99% finish booth availability: a worked example

Push finish booth availability up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when finishing, sanding, flash-off, cure time, booth uptime, and first-pass finish quality determine whether panels, cabinets, shelves, or displays can ship on schedule.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Finished parts per booth cycle: 24 parts / cycle (unchanged)
  • Available finish booth cycles: 18 cycles (unchanged)
  • Finish booth availability: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 86)
  • First-pass finish yield: 94 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross finish booth capacity = finished parts per booth cycle × available finish booth cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 402 units for good finish booth capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 432 units for gross finish booth capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4.32 units for finish booth capacity downtime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 25.66 units for finish booth capacity reject or rework loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where finish booth availability sits at 86% and the headline result is 349 units, this scenario comes in 15.12% above the baseline at 402 units.
  • It computes good finish booth capacity by taking parts per cycle times available cycles, then derating for booth availability and first-pass finish yield. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Good finish booth capacity: 402 units (headline result)
  • Gross finish booth capacity: 432 units
  • Finish booth capacity downtime loss: 4.32 units
  • Finish booth capacity reject or rework loss: 25.66 units

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.