Marine, Shipbuilding & Boat Manufacturing worked example

Outfitting Labor Hours at 29% access, rework, and coordination allowance: a worked example

Push access, rework, and coordination allowance up to 29% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it when building a vessel production schedule to allocate outfitting crews across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, joinery, and hardware installation tasks.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Number of outfitting tasks: 85 tasks (unchanged)
  • Average hours per outfitting task: 6 hr / task (unchanged)
  • Access, rework, and coordination allowance: 29 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 25)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base outfitting hours = number of outfitting tasks x average hours per task) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 18.27 hr for total outfitting labor hours, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 14.17 hr for base outfitting hours (before allowance).
  • At this operating point the engine returns 29 % for access, rework, and coordination hours.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 6 pieces / min for average task completion rate.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where access, rework, and coordination allowance sits at 25% and the headline result is 17.71 hr, this scenario comes in 3.2% above the baseline at 18.27 hr.
  • It computes total outfitting labor hours by multiplying the number of outfitting tasks by the average hours per task, then adding an access, rework, and coordination allowance. 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 outfitting labor hours: 18.27 hr (headline result)
  • Base outfitting hours (before allowance): 14.17 hr
  • Access, rework, and coordination hours: 29 %
  • Average task completion rate: 6 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Outfitting Labor Hours calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.