Free Production Calculator

Embroidery Run Time Calculator

Work out how long a whole order takes to stitch across your machines and heads, now with trim tracking and advice on where time is being lost.

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Production planner

Stitches & trims × your fleet × quantity = realistic run time

1 The design

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Drop a DST or browse — fills stitches, trims & colours

Read privately in your browser

Stitches

Trims

Colours

From a DST these fill automatically. EMB files can't be read in a browser. Open the design in your software and read stitches, trims and colour count there.

2 Your machines & order

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Order quantity

pcs

Machine speed

spm

Stitches per minute. Commercial machines run 600–1200; caps & dense fills run slower.

Efficiency

Allowance for thread breaks & slack. 80–95% typical.

Time per trim

sec

Thread cut + short jump & restart. Auto-trim machines ~0.4–0.8 sec.

Time per colour change

sec

Automatic needle change ~1.5–2.5 sec.

Handling / cycle

min

Hooping, loading & unloading each batch between runs.

Estimated time to complete the order

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🧵 Heads in parallel

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🔁 Cycles needed

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runs across the fleet

📦 Throughput

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pieces / hour

✂ Trim time share

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of run time

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