The cycle
The calculation adds laser time, handling and additional inspection. It does not infer a speed from a material or machine.
NWS LASER TOOL · CAPACITY & THROUGHPUT
Estimate the load,
prepare the production line.
Turn your assumptions about volume, cycle and organization into capacity estimates. The result helps prepare a study; it does not confirm a process or equipment choice.
YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
Estimate capacity
with accurate timings.
Enter load assumptions. Do not enter sensitive data or confidential production plans; these can be shared later as part of an explicit study.
HOW TO READ THE RESULT
A cycle is not
a complete line.
Capacity
Planned downtime and simulation availability reduce the available productive time. Capacity per shift is rounded down.
Workstations
The result distributes a target across workstations assumed to be identical and parallel. Bottlenecks, buffers and variations must be studied in the actual project.
TRANSPARENT FORMULAS
The assumptions
remain visible.
The displayed values use the entered times and coefficients. They help prepare a discussion about production workload; they do not determine marking quality or the choice of a solution.
View the calculation details
- Cycle time
- Laser time + loading/unloading + additional inspection
- Theoretical parts/hour
- 3 600 ÷ cycle time, excluding downtime
- Net time per shift
- max(0, shift duration × 3 600 − planned downtime × 60) × availability
- Capacity / shift / workstation
- round down(net time per shift ÷ cycle time)
- Capacity over the period / workstation
- capacity per shift × number of shifts
- Indicative parallel workstations
- round up(target volume ÷ capacity over the period / workstation)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What the calculator
estimates—and does not estimate.
- Does the calculator confirm the feasibility of a marking project?
- No. It estimates workload based on the assumptions entered. The process, actual laser time, marking quality, tooling and integration must be studied for the project.
- Why is the gross throughput different from the capacity per shift?
- Gross throughput is calculated from the cycle, excluding downtime. Capacity per shift then takes into account planned downtime and the entered availability factor.
- What does the indicative number of parallel workstations mean?
- It distributes a target volume across workstations assumed to be identical and parallel. It does not, by itself, address feeding, bottlenecks, handling, safety or production variations.
CAPACITY STUDY
Your target needs to become
a studied cycle.
Send us your target, known times, part, material, desired result and integration constraints. NWS LASER will prepare a process and throughput study based on your actual situation.