Learning curves in manufacturing¶
Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1990). Learning curves in manufacturing. Science, 247(4945), 920-924.
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- Learning Curve Effects
- The structural insight is robust across very different carriers: a factory's labor-hours per airframe, a typist's keystroke latency, an industry's cost per watt of installed solar, and a surgical team's complication rate all trace the same downward-bending curve when plotted against cumulative count, even though the underlying mechanisms (process refinement, motor consolidation, supplier scaling, tacit-skill accrual) are unrelated.
This sourceReviews productivity gains with cumulative output across organizations and documents the recurrence of the curve along with organizational forgetting and transfer.
- The structural insight is robust across very different carriers: a factory's labor-hours per airframe, a typist's keystroke latency, an industry's cost per watt of installed solar, and a surgical team's complication rate all trace the same downward-bending curve when plotted against cumulative count, even though the underlying mechanisms (process refinement, motor consolidation, supplier scaling, tacit-skill accrual) are unrelated.
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