Wire Drawing & Rod Processing worked example
Coating Pickup at 65% line utilization efficiency: a worked example
This worked example runs the coating pickup numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 65% line utilization efficiency instead of the typical 90%. Coating pickup throughput measures how much coated wire or rod a galvanizing, phosphate, or polymer coating line actually delivers per hour once real-world efficiency is stripped out.
The inputs for this scenario
- Coated wire produced per shift: 1,200 units (held at the documented default)
- Coating line runtime: 8 hr (held at the documented default)
- Line utilization efficiency: 65 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 90)
Working through the calculation
- The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Raw coating pickup = completed output รท runtime.
- Effective throughput works out to 97.5 units at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
- Raw throughput works out to 150 units at these inputs.
- Efficiency works out to 65 % at these inputs.
- Runtime works out to 8 hr at these inputs.
How this compares with the baseline
- Against the tool's baseline example, where line utilization efficiency sits at 90% and the headline result is 135 units, this scenario comes in 27.78% below the baseline at 97.5 units.
- Use it when you need a realistic per-hour coating rate for scheduling, or to compare one coating line or die head against another on equal footing. 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
- Effective throughput: 97.5 units (headline result)
- Raw throughput: 150 units
- Efficiency: 65 %
- Runtime: 8 hr
Run it with your numbers
- To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Coating Pickup calculator, set line utilization efficiency to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.