Rated speed is not scheduled capacity. Add setup, changeovers, utilization, shifts and an optional due window to see productive hours, calendar days and the throughput required to make the plan work.
Enter the total good pieces required and the effective pieces per machine cycle. If one sheet carries four sellable pieces, set pieces per cycle to four rather than inflating the machine speed.
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Rated cycles per hour usually describe a running condition, not every minute of a shift. Make-ready, checks, pauses, feeder issues and routine interruptions lower the share of clock time that produces accepted work. Modeling utilization separately keeps the rated speed useful without pretending it is continuously achieved.
A ten-minute setup matters little on a very long run and a lot on a short run. That is why the planner adds setup and changeovers after calculating productive runtime rather than reducing speed by one arbitrary percentage for every job.
This page models one production stage. Cutting, lamination, folding, binding, packing or curing may have lower capacity than printing. Compare the result with finishing capacity before treating the schedule as a production promise.