Trailers, Truck Bodies & Specialty Vehicles worked example

Paint Booth Capacity at 65% booth uptime: a worked example in trailers, truck bodies & specialty vehicles

This worked example runs the paint booth capacity numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 65% booth uptime instead of the typical 90%. Paint Booth Capacity tells a trailer or specialty-vehicle plant how many finished bodies its booth can actually deliver once you subtract downtime and rework, not just the theoretical maximum.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Trailer bodies painted per booth cycle: 4 units / cycle (held at the documented default)
  • Available booth cycles in the period: 480 cycles (held at the documented default)
  • Booth uptime (spray plus cure availability): 65 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 90)
  • First-pass paint 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.
  • Use it when quoting a production run, sizing a second booth, or checking whether finishing can absorb an increase in weld-shop output. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

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.