'capability to operate' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about a machine or any other process that can be activated. For example, you can say: "The machine has an impressive capability to operate with high accuracy."
Despite our repeated requests, the Egyptians declined to contribute helicopters; they simply do not have the logistical and operational capability to operate in Darfur's challenging environment.
It has the capability to operate either in buck, boost or buck boost mode of operation with possibility of bidirectional power flow.
In the U.N. Charter of 1945, permanent membership on the Security Council was given to those states with the capability to operate worldwide.
"If they maintain the full-spectrum capability to operate with us quickly on the front end of a conflict, it is helpful.
Few programmers have the capability to operate efficiently at these scales, limiting the field's ability to explore new applications that leverage big video data.
The microstructured reactor's capability to operate with high active catalysts at severe conditions without causing temperature runaways and thus increased deactivation of the catalyst is demonstrated.
Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the new command "warrants careful scrutiny," because "capabilities to operate in cyberspace have outpaced the development of policy, law and precedent".
The massive firing of the majority of the management and technical experts from PDVSA in 2003 following the political conflict that led to a strike, has left the company with limited capabilities to operate effectively.
The Canadian armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Walter Natynczyk, also tried to be reassuring, saying, "There is no conventional military threat to the Arctic," while at the same time suggesting the area was such a difficult place that only the military had sufficient capabilities to operate in some circumstances.
