Industrial Sensors & Instrumentation worked example

Sensor Burn-in Capacity at 99% burn-in oven uptime: a worked example

Push burn-in oven uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use this when checking whether your burn-in capacity can handle a demand increase, planning oven utilization for a new sensor launch, or justifying investment in additional burn-in chamber capacity.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Sensors loaded per burn-in cycle: 48 sensors / cycle (unchanged)
  • Burn-in cycles available per shift: 3 cycles (unchanged)
  • Burn-in oven uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 88)
  • Post-burn-in pass rate: 98 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross burn-in capacity = sensors per cycle x available cycles per shift) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 140 units for net good sensors per shift, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 144 units for gross burn-in throughput.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1.44 units for oven downtime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 2.85 units for burn-in screening failures.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where burn-in oven uptime sits at 88% and the headline result is 124 units, this scenario comes in 12.5% above the baseline at 140 units.
  • It computes net good sensors per shift by discounting gross oven throughput for oven downtime and post-burn-in screening failures. 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 sensors per shift: 140 units (headline result)
  • Gross burn-in throughput: 144 units
  • Oven downtime loss: 1.44 units
  • Burn-in screening failures: 2.85 units

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Sensor Burn-in Capacity calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.