Wire Harness, Cable & Electromechanical Assembly worked example

Continuity Test Workload at 12% setup, probing, and delay allowance: a worked example

What does the result look like when setup, probing, and delay allowance reaches 12%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when continuity test workload in wire harness, cable and electromechanical assembly needs a defensible run time before a quote goes out.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Circuits to Continuity-Check: 120 units (unchanged)
  • Continuity Check Rate: 12 units / min (unchanged)
  • Setup, Probing, and Delay Allowance: 12 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 10)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base continuity test workload time = continuity test workload workload รท continuity test workload completion rate) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 11.2 hr for required continuity test workload time, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 10 hr for base continuity test workload time.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 12 % for continuity test workload allowance applied.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 12 pieces / min for continuity test workload completion rate.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where setup, probing, and delay allowance sits at 10% and the headline result is 11 hr, this scenario comes in 1.82% above the baseline at 11.2 hr.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when setup, probing, and delay allowance is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It models a steady manual or fixture-based check rate; it does not distinguish quick automated bed-of-nails passes from slow manual probing, so mixed methods need separate runs.

Results at a glance

  • Required continuity test workload time: 11.2 hr (headline result)
  • Base continuity test workload time: 10 hr
  • Continuity test workload allowance applied: 12 %
  • Continuity test workload completion rate: 12 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Continuity Test Workload calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.