Hospital Equipment & Clinical Furniture worked example

Capacity Gap at 63% assembly line uptime: a worked example in hospital equipment & clinical furniture

Suppose assembly line uptime falls to 63%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate the good units per shift your hospital equipment production line can deliver, accounting for assembly cell output, available cycles, line uptime, and final inspection first-pass yield.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Hospital equipment units completed per assembly cycle: 1 units / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available assembly cycles per shift: 16 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Assembly line uptime: 63 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 88)
  • Final inspection first-pass yield: 95 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross production capacity = units per cycle × available cycles per shift.
  • Net good units per shift works out to 9.58 units at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross production capacity per shift works out to 16 units at these inputs.
  • Units lost to line downtime works out to 5.92 units at these inputs.
  • Units lost to inspection rejects works out to 0.5 units at these inputs.

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 28.41% below the baseline at 9.58 units.
  • It computes net good units per shift by multiplying gross capacity by line uptime and final-inspection first-pass yield. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Net good units per shift: 9.58 units (headline result)
  • Gross production capacity per shift: 16 units
  • Units lost to line downtime: 5.92 units
  • Units lost to inspection rejects: 0.5 units

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Capacity Gap calculator, set assembly line uptime to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.