Estimate how many patients a vaccine clinic can serve from its active stations, cycle time, operating schedule, and realistic efficiency. The result provides hourly, daily, and full-period throughput for staffing and appointment planning.
Capacity is the number of vaccinations the modeled station workflow can complete, assuming supplies and upstream screening keep pace.
Observation space, registration, consent, cold-chain handling, and staffing may impose a lower limit than vaccination stations alone.
Ten stations averaging 10 minutes per patient produce 60 theoretical vaccinations per hour. At 85% efficiency, capacity is 51 per hour, 408 per eight-hour day, and 2,040 over five days.
Only if the vaccination station remains occupied during observation; otherwise model observation space separately.
It accounts for setup, breaks, delays, uneven arrivals, and other time when a station cannot vaccinate continuously.
Capacity is independent of demand, but reserve appointment slots or run a separate demand scenario if walk-ins are expected.
Calculate each station group separately when workflows differ materially, then add their capacities.
A partial calculated patient cannot be completed, so the conservative planning result uses whole patients only.
| Variable | Role |
|---|---|
| Stations | Parallel service channels |
| Cycle time | Minutes each station is occupied |
| Efficiency | Share of theoretical time that produces service |