Exam 6: Learning Curves

The unit improvement factor for an 80 percent learning curve at 100 units is 0.2271.The first and second timings of a person doing a job are 20 minutes and 16 minutes, respectively.What is the learning-adjusted time estimate for unit number 100?

You time someone completing a single task the first time at 10 minutes, and the second time they do the task it takes 9 minutes.You should use an 80 percent learning curve to estimate the length of time this worker will take to complete this task in the future.

Which of the following is a reason that there are disparities between a firm's learning curve rate and that of its industry?

If a person performing a task has been achieving an 85 percent learning curve and if it took 1 minute to produce the first unit, what will be the total time to produce 1,000 units? ______________________

A learning curve is a line displaying the relationship between unit production time and the cumulative number of units produced.

A learning curve shows the increase in time required for each successive unit completed.

You have just timed a person doing a hair cut for the first time.It took 50 minutes.What unit improvement factor learning curve would you use if the person took 35 minutes on the second hair cut?

A learning curve is a line displaying the way unit production time decreases as time passes.

The unit improvement factor for a 60 percent learning curve at 25 units is 0.0933.The first and second timings of a person doing a job are 10 minutes and 6 minutes, respectively.The learning-adjusted time estimate for the unit number 25 is 0.9330 minute.

The 10^th repetition of job is timed at 100 minutes.If the learning curve for this job is 80 percent, what is the estimated time for the 100^th repetition of this job?

You have just timed a person doing a job a few times.The first time it took the person 25 minutes, the second time it took 20 minutes, and the third time it took 17.55 minutes.Which learning curve unit improvement factor should you use?

If a person performing a task has been achieving a 95 percent learning curve and you know that the task will end after the 100^th unit, the last unit produced will take 71.12 percent as much time as the first unit.

Learning curves have a wide range of business applications.

A company can produce a small lot of products the first time at a cost of $2,000.If their 85 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each lot, what is the total cost of producing 5 lots?

You have determined that a 60 percent learning curve is appropriate for a task.If your initial timing of person performing that task was 35 minutes and if you need the task performed 1,000 times, how many minutes of work will be required?

The general guidelines provided in the textbook on improving individual learning based on learning curves include which of the following?

You have determined that a 75 percent learning curve is appropriate for a task.If the initial timing of the person performing that job was 50 minutes, and if you need the job performed 500 times, how many minutes of work will be required?

The unit improvement factor for a 60 percent learning curve at 25 units is 0.0933.The first and second timings of a person doing a job are 5 minutes and 3 minutes respectively.Which of the following is the learning-adjusted time estimate for unit number 25?

An assumption of learning curves is that the time required to complete a unit will decrease at an increasing rate as the cumulative number of units completed increases.

You time someone completing a single task the first time at 100 minutes, and the fourth time they do the task it takes 81 minutes.You should use an 81 percent learning curve to estimate the length of time this worker will take to complete this task in the future.