Heat Treatment, Furnaces & Thermal Processing calculator
Reheat Cost Calculator
Cost a completed reheat attempt and its accepted recoveries. Enter reheated parts, the additional rate, separate setup or tests and the recovered count.
What this calculator does
- Track additional reheat expense and the cost per part successfully recovered by the attempt.
Formula used
- Reheat processing expense = parts reheated × additional processing rate
- Additional expense = reheat processing expense + setup and testing fee
- Cost per recovered part = additional expense ÷ recovered parts
- Observed recovery yield = recovered parts ÷ reheated parts × 100
- Unrecovered parts = reheated parts − recovered parts
Inputs explained
- Parts Reheated: Count actually receiving the additional heat-treatment attempt.
- Reheat Processing Rate: Additional processing charge per reheated part.
- Reheat Setup and Testing Fee: Separate setup or laboratory charge for this additional attempt.
- Parts Successfully Recovered: Reheated parts subsequently accepted by the required inspection.
How to use the result
- Best suited to reheat attempt cost Review, Recovered-Part cost reconciliation.
- The calculator does not authorize repeating heat treatment. Observed recovery does not predict the next batch’s recovery rate.
Current U.S. benchmarks
- Industrial electricity averages 9.77 cents per kWh across the U.S. (EIA, Jul 2026), up 4.7% from a year earlier. Energy-intensive steps carry this directly into unit cost.
Common questions
- Does the expense include the first heat treatment? No, it includes only the additional reheat attempt and the separately entered setup or testing charge.
- What if none of the parts recover? The incurred reheat expense remains visible. Cost per recovered part is blank because the attempt produced no accepted recovery.
- Can I use pounds as the reheated quantity? No, this model uses counted parts and a dollars-per-part rate. A mass-priced job requires a mass-based cost model.
- Can the result justify reheating a rejected lot? No, process approval must come first. This calculator records the economics of an allowed attempt, including its actual acceptance outcome.
Last reviewed 2026-10-06.