Industrial Equipment, Machinery & Capital Goods worked example

Machine Documentation Workload at 25% review and revision allowance: a worked example

Suppose review and revision allowance falls to 25%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate documentation workload from manual, drawing, compliance, and service document packages, completion throughput, and review allowance.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Documentation packages: 48 packages (held at the documented default)
  • Documentation completion throughput: 3 packages / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Review and revision allowance: 25 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 35)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base documentation time = documentation packages รท documentation completion throughput.
  • Required machine documentation workload works out to 20 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base documentation time works out to 16 hr at these inputs.
  • Review and revision allowance works out to 25 % at these inputs.
  • Documentation completion throughput works out to 3 pieces / min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where review and revision allowance sits at 35% and the headline result is 21.6 hr, this scenario comes in 7.41% below the baseline at 20 hr.
  • It computes the labor hours to complete a set of documentation packages at a known completion rate, uplifted by a review and revision allowance. 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

  • Required machine documentation workload: 20 hr (headline result)
  • Base documentation time: 16 hr
  • Review and revision allowance: 25 %
  • Documentation completion throughput: 3 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Machine Documentation Workload calculator, set review and revision allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.