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  • Learning and Improvement Curves: How to determine the impact of learning on the time/cost required to build the next unit or the next lot by Arkie Dean Fanning book cover
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Learning and Improvement Curves: How to determine the impact of learning on the time/cost required to build the next unit or the next lot

by Arkie Dean Fanning

A practical guide to learning curves

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A practical guide to learning curves

Arkie Dean Fanning’s book focuses on calculating how learning affects the time or cost involved in producing subsequent units and lots. It covers several applications, including multi-lot production and multi-station personnel, and explains how to convert a unit learning curve into a cumulative average curve. The guide also addresses forgetfulness curves, treating them as a calculable factor. Its step-by-step approach is presented for both straightforward and more difficult problems, with technical and practical detail informed by the author’s stated experience using learning curves across different environments.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People who need to calculate learning curves in production or operations settings.
  • Occasional users seeking step-by-step guidance on learning-curve problems.
  • Readers interested in unit, lot, multi-lot, or multi-station applications.

Themes

Learning-curve calculationProduction time and costCumulative averagesForgetfulness curvesOperations research

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Book overview

The complete book of learning and improvement curves. The book shows how to calculate learning curves for units, for lots, for multi-lots, for multi-station personnel. How do you determine a forgetfulness curve? It is a real phenomenon and it can be calculated. How do you transfer a unit learning curve into a cumulative average learning curve? The book will show you. This book provides a lot of technical and practical detail and is the result of over 30 years practice in the use and sometimes misuse of the learning curve in a host of environments. This book is perfect for those that have to use learning curves only once in a while, it shows step by step how to determine the appropriate answer for both easy and difficult learning curve problems. Buy the book, it will make your life easier (and mine to if I might say so).l
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