Furniture, Fixtures & Interior Products worked example

Finish Booth Capacity at 62% finish booth availability: a worked example

This worked example runs the finish booth capacity numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 62% finish booth availability instead of the typical 86%. Estimate good finish-booth output for stained, painted, coated, or clear-coated furniture and fixture parts per shift.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Finished parts per booth cycle: 24 parts / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available finish booth cycles: 18 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Finish booth availability: 62 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 86)
  • First-pass finish yield: 94 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross finish booth capacity = finished parts per booth cycle × available finish booth cycles.
  • Good finish booth capacity works out to 252 units at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross finish booth capacity works out to 432 units at these inputs.
  • Finish booth capacity downtime loss works out to 164 units at these inputs.
  • Finish booth capacity reject or rework loss works out to 16.07 units at these inputs.

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 27.91% below the baseline at 252 units.
  • Use it when scheduling a finishing line, checking whether finishing is the bottleneck, or quoting lead time on a coated-part order. 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 finish booth capacity: 252 units (headline result)
  • Gross finish booth capacity: 432 units
  • Finish booth capacity downtime loss: 164 units
  • Finish booth capacity reject or rework loss: 16.07 units

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Finish Booth Capacity calculator, set finish booth availability to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.