Pump, Compressor & Rotating Equipment Assembly worked example

Paint Booth Capacity at 65% booth uptime: a worked example in pump, compressor & rotating equipment assembly

Here is what the math looks like when conditions slip. We hold every other input steady and drop booth uptime to 65%, then walk the calculation through step by step. Paint booth capacity estimates how many good, coated pump or compressor assemblies a booth can actually deliver over a period, after uptime and coating yield losses are taken out of the gross count.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Assemblies coated per booth cycle: 4 units / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available booth cycles: 480 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Booth uptime: 65 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 90)
  • Coating first-pass yield: 97 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross paint booth capacity capacity = units per cycle × available cycles.
  • Good output capacity works out to 1,211 units at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Gross capacity works out to 1,920 units at these inputs.
  • Uptime loss works out to 672 units at these inputs.
  • Yield loss works out to 37.44 units at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where booth uptime sits at 90% and the headline result is 1,676 units, this scenario comes in 27.78% below the baseline at 1,211 units.
  • The practical read: the gap between this scenario and the baseline is entirely attributable to booth uptime, so recovering it is worth quantifying in dollars before considering equipment or staffing changes. It uses a single average units-per-cycle; mixed part sizes that load the booth differently will make one blended figure less accurate than modeling by part family.

Results at a glance

  • Good output capacity: 1,211 units (headline result)
  • Gross capacity: 1,920 units
  • Uptime loss: 672 units
  • Yield loss: 37.44 units

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Paint Booth Capacity calculator, set booth uptime to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.