Planning & productivity
Work capacity planner
Translate a backlog and your working-time assumptions into throughput.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
Usable minutes per resource-day=scheduled hours×60×productive share−setup minutes. Multiplies by parallel resources and divides by minutes per unit for daily capacity. Backlog/daily capacity gives fractional days and whole days rounded up. Requires positive usable time; no variability, bottlenecks, queueing or actual calendar is inferred.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Backlog units to complete
- 1000
- Productive minutes per unit
- 6
- People / machines working in parallel
- 3
- Scheduled hours per day for each
- 8
- Productive share of scheduled time (%)
- 75
- Setup minutes per person / machine per day
- 15
Example result
- Usable minutes per resource-day
- 345
- Daily unit capacity
- 172.5
- Fractional working days
- 5.79710144928
- Whole working days
- 6