UV Curing worked example
UV Cure Line Daily Capacity at 61% line availability and uptime: a worked example
Suppose line availability and uptime falls to 61%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Roll a UV cure line's hourly throughput up to a daily good-parts number across multiple shifts, with uptime and yield baked in.
The inputs for this scenario
- Cured parts per hour at speed: 320 parts / hr (held at the documented default)
- Scheduled run hours per day: 16 hr / day (held at the documented default)
- Line availability / uptime: 61 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 85)
- First-pass cure yield: 97 % (held at the documented default)
Working through the calculation
- The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross daily capacity = hourly throughput × shift hours per day.
- Net good parts / day works out to 3,030 parts / day at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
- Gross daily capacity works out to 5,120 parts / day at these inputs.
- Loss to uptime works out to 1,997 parts / day at these inputs.
- Loss to cure rejects works out to 93.7 parts / day at these inputs.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where line availability and uptime sits at 85% and the headline result is 4,221 parts / day, this scenario comes in 28.24% below the baseline at 3,030 parts / day.
- It computes net good parts per day by taking gross capacity (throughput × shift hours) and derating it by uptime and cure yield. 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
- Net good parts / day: 3,030 parts / day (headline result)
- Gross daily capacity: 5,120 parts / day
- Loss to uptime: 1,997 parts / day
- Loss to cure rejects: 93.7 parts / day
Run it with your numbers
- To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live UV Cure Line Daily Capacity calculator, set line availability and uptime to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.