Industrial Valves, Actuators & Flow Control worked example

Configured Valve Quote Time at 29% review, approval, and clarification overhead: a worked example

Push review, approval, and clarification overhead up to 29% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use this when planning inside sales or applications engineering workload for an incoming RFQ with multiple configured valve assemblies requiring individual sizing, material selection, and pricing.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Configured valve line items to quote: 18 line items (unchanged)
  • Average engineering hours per line item: 1.5 hr / line item (unchanged)
  • Review, approval, and clarification overhead: 29 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 25)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base quoting hours = line items x hours per line item) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 15.48 hr for total configured valve quote time (hours), the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 12 hr for base quoting hours (technical work only).
  • At this operating point the engine returns 29 % for review and approval hours added.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1.5 pieces / min for line items quoted per hour.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where review, approval, and clarification overhead sits at 25% and the headline result is 15 hr, this scenario comes in 3.2% above the baseline at 15.48 hr.
  • It multiplies line items by average hours each to get base technical hours, then adds a review/approval overhead percentage for total quote time. 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

  • Total configured valve quote time (hours): 15.48 hr (headline result)
  • Base quoting hours (technical work only): 12 hr
  • Review and approval hours added: 29 %
  • Line items quoted per hour: 1.5 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Configured Valve Quote Time calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.