Manufacturing Master Data & Data Governance worked example

Data Stewardship Capacity at 99% steward availability: a worked example

This scenario runs the data stewardship capacity calculation on the strong side: 99% steward availability, with every other input held at its documented default. Use it when data stewardship capacity in manufacturing master data and data governance is being asked to take on more work and you need to know if there is room.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Records cleansed per steward cycle: 4 records / cycle (unchanged)
  • Available steward cycles: 480 cycles (unchanged)
  • Steward availability (uptime): 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • First-pass clean rate (no rework): 97 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross data stewardship capacity = data stewardship capacity output per cycle × available data stewardship capacity cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,844 units for good data stewardship capacity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 1,920 units for gross data stewardship capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 19.2 units for data stewardship capacity downtime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 57.02 units for data stewardship capacity yield loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where steward availability sits at 90% and the headline result is 1,676 units, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 1,844 units.
  • Use it to set backlog targets, compare staffing scenarios, or diagnose whether availability or rework is throttling your stewardship throughput. Treat this as a target state: the delta against the baseline quantifies what the improvement is worth before you commit to chasing it.

Results at a glance

  • Good data stewardship capacity: 1,844 units (headline result)
  • Gross data stewardship capacity: 1,920 units
  • Data stewardship capacity downtime loss: 19.2 units
  • Data stewardship capacity yield loss: 57.02 units

Run it with your numbers

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

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.