UV Curing calculator
UV Rework Cost Calculator: Quality Cost per Part Produced
Price a cure defect event in a unit that composes. Enter the defective parts, the cost per part, disposition and containment labor, and total production for the period.
What this calculator does
- Quality cost carried by every part produced after a cure defect event, so it sits beside the cure cost.
Formula used
- Rework or scrap material = defective parts × cost per part
- Total cure defect event cost = material + disposition labor
- Quality cost per part produced = event cost ÷ total parts produced
- Cost per defective part = event cost ÷ defective parts
- Defect rate = defective parts ÷ total parts produced × 1,000,000
Inputs explained
- Defective Parts: Parts in this event requiring rework or scrapping.
- Rework or Scrap Cost per Part: Rework cost, or full value if the part is scrapped.
- Disposition and Containment Labor: Sorting, inspection, quarantine, paperwork and any stoppage.
- Total Parts Produced: All parts made in the period, good and bad.
How to use the result
- Best suited to putting quality cost into a per-part model, comparing quality cost against cure cost, showing why small containment events hurt.
- Prices one event; a period's quality cost sums its events and repeats the containment. Excludes customer impact, because a placeholder figure misleads more than an omission. Says nothing about defects that escape, and undercure is likely to escape.
Common questions
- Why per part produced rather than per defective part? Cost per part produced is the unit every other cost uses, so it can sit beside material, labor and energy. Per defective part only describes the event.
- Why is a small defect event so expensive per part? Containment does not scale with the event. Sorting, quarantine, paperwork and investigation cost nearly the same for twenty parts as for two hundred.
- How should I value a scrapped part? At its full accumulated value at the cure station, including every prior operation. A scrapped part loses everything spent on it, not just the coating.
- Does this cover defects that reach a customer? No. An escape carries returns, investigation, freight and reputational cost that dwarf this page. Undercure is the failure most likely to escape.
Last reviewed 2026-10-01.