GMS 401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5s: Integer Factorization, Shared Experience

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Wally Whistance- Smith

Document Summary

Time to produce a unit decreases as more units are produced true up to a point: when you enjoy something, you put more effort into it. Workers exhibit pattern of learning in manufacturing operations through experience. The rate of learning is greatest when ignorance is greatest. Wright in 1936; he created a learning curve math model. Basic idea: as people repeat a task again and again, the time it takes to do the task gradually decreases due to. Learning : rate of learning is greatest at first when ignorance is greatest; rate of learning decreases as ignorance decreases. Even if you"re ignorant, if you"re motivated you can learn. At first, learning was attributed to increased motor skills in the workers as they repeated their tasks. Later it was realized that management also could contribute to learning with better tools and processes. This led to new names being applied to the curves, e. g. , improvement, progress, startup, efficiency, etc.