Although learning curves have been recognized in industries other than aircraft, they have not been as widely accepted. Such continuing improvement was so common in the aircraft industry that it became the normal expectation in the war time mass production of aircraft thus, production and other types of performance were customarily scheduled on some basis of progressive betterment.īut this is not the practice in industry generally. It has evolved from experience in airframe manufacture, which found that the number of man-hours spent in building a plane declined at a regular rate over a wide range of production. The industrial learning curve quantifies such performance. But how many know that the pattern of improvement can be sufficiently regular to be predictive? How many realize that such patterns can characterize, not only individual performance, but also the composite performance of many individuals organized to accomplish a common task? A thing can always be done better not only the second time but each succeeding time by trying.
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