A standard available capacity is the available capacity of a capacity category that is valid in all versions of the available capacity provided that no interval of available capacity is defined. Unlike available capacity within an interval of available capacity, standard available capacity theoretically has an unlimited validity period.

The system uses the standard available capacity, for example, to calculate the lead time in the recipe.

You use a standard available capacity when you cannot or do not want to describe your available capacity in detail. However, if you want, for example, scheduling and capacity planning to be able to calculate available capacity that is specific to a shift, you have to use versions of available capacity.

The following is used to determine standard available capacity:

• Work start
• Work finish
• Break times
• Rate of capacity utilization
• Number of individual capacities that make up the capacity group, for example, the number of processing units or people

A standard available capacity has unlimited validity. The same available capacity is valid on each workday of the factory calendar.