Textiles & Apparel Manufacturing worked example

Dyehouse Capacity at 65% machine availability: a worked example

Suppose machine availability falls to 65%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate dyehouse capacity for textiles and apparel manufacturing using production-ready inputs so teams can confirm whether capacity can cover demand before committing the schedule.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Fabric loaded per dye machine cycle (kg): 4 units / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Scheduled dye cycles in the period: 480 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Machine availability (uptime): 65 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 90)
  • Right-first-time dye yield: 97 % (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

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

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where machine availability sits at 90% and the headline result is 1,676 units, this scenario comes in 27.78% below the baseline at 1,211 units.
  • It multiplies batch load by scheduled cycles to get gross capacity, then discounts for uptime and right-first-time yield to give good (first-quality) dyed output. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Good dyehouse capacity: 1,211 units (headline result)
  • Gross dyehouse capacity: 1,920 units
  • Dyehouse capacity downtime loss: 672 units
  • Dyehouse capacity yield loss: 37.44 units

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Dyehouse Capacity calculator, set machine availability to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.