Hospital Equipment & Clinical Furniture worked example
Capacity Gap at 99% assembly line uptime: a worked example in hospital equipment & clinical furniture
Push assembly line uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when a new hospital equipment order is being loaded to the production schedule and you need to confirm whether the line can meet the shipment commitment without overtime or additional headcount.
The inputs for this scenario
- Hospital equipment units completed per assembly cycle: 1 units / cycle (unchanged)
- Available assembly cycles per shift: 16 cycles (unchanged)
- Assembly line uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 88)
- Final inspection first-pass yield: 95 % (unchanged)
Working through the calculation
- Applying the documented formula (Gross production capacity = units per cycle × available cycles per shift) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
- At this operating point the engine returns 15.05 units for net good units per shift, the number this scenario is built around.
- At this operating point the engine returns 16 units for gross production capacity per shift.
- At this operating point the engine returns 0.16 units for units lost to line downtime.
- At this operating point the engine returns 0.79 units for units lost to inspection rejects.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where assembly line uptime sits at 88% and the headline result is 13.38 units, this scenario comes in 12.5% above the baseline at 15.05 units.
- It computes net good units per shift by multiplying gross capacity by line uptime and final-inspection first-pass 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
- Net good units per shift: 15.05 units (headline result)
- Gross production capacity per shift: 16 units
- Units lost to line downtime: 0.16 units
- Units lost to inspection rejects: 0.79 units
Run it with your numbers
- Every input above is editable in the live Capacity Gap calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.