Learning Curve Calculator

Improvement
20% <--Note: You can change any value in yellow
Rate-->

Learning <--Note: Everytime the quantity doubles, the previous doubled unit cost is multiplied by the learning
80%
Rate--> rate.

Unit Number
cum ave
(quantity Cum Total incremental
time per
produced, time (hrs) time
unit
pieces)
1 1000.00 1000.00 --- The log-log regressions will often show larger scatter
2 800.00 1600.00 600.00 in the early quantities and will not provide a "perfect"
3 702.10 2106.31 506.31 curve fit.
4 640.00 2560.00 453.69
5 595.64 2978.19 418.19 1200
6 561.68 3370.10 391.91
7 534.49 3741.43 371.33
8 512.00 4096.00 354.57 1000
9 492.95 4436.55 340.55
10 476.51 4765.10 328.55 800
11 462.11 5083.22 318.12
12 449.35 5392.16 308.93
600
13 437.92 5692.90 300.75
14 427.59 5986.28 293.38
15 418.20 6272.99 286.71 400
16 409.60 6553.60 280.61
17 401.68 6828.62 275.02 200
18 394.36 7098.47 269.86
19 387.55 7363.54 265.07
20 381.21 7624.16 260.61 0
1.1 969.78 1066.76 66.76
1.2 942.99 1131.59 64.83
1.3 919.01 1194.71 63.11
1.4 897.34 1256.28 61.57
1.5 877.63 1316.44 60.17
1.6 859.58 1375.33 58.89
1.7 842.97 1433.05 57.72
1.8 827.60 1489.68 56.63
1.9 813.32 1545.31 55.63
2 800.00 1600.00 54.69
2.1 787.53 1653.82 53.82
2.2 775.83 1706.82 53.00
2.3 764.80 1759.05 52.23
2.4 754.40 1810.55 51.50
2.5 744.55 1861.37 50.82
2.6 735.20 1911.53 50.17
2.7 726.33 1961.08 49.55
2.8 717.87 2010.04 48.96
2.9 709.81 2058.44 48.40
3 702.10 2106.31 47.87
 cost is multiplied by the learning

ons will often show larger scatter

s and will not provide a "perfect"

Unit Number (quantity

produced, pieces)
cum ave time per unit
Coefficient, A-->
Exponent, B-->
R-->
 Learning Curve Calculator

This worksheet allows you to calculate the expected time to complete projects/tasks subject to a learning
effect. It provides the results for the cumulative average-time model

Calculation of beta coefficient

To determine the learning curve coefficient (beta value) for

a specific learning curve, enter the learning percent here
and the beta value will be calculated for you. Enter the
percent as a decimal (i.e for an 80% learning curve enter 0.80). 0.9

The learning coefficient (beta) is -0.152003

Cumulative
Average-Time
Model

Computation of average time for all units produced

Enter the time to complete the first unit 1000

Enter the learning coefficient (beta). Recall it is a negative number. -0.3219
How many units will be produced? 2
The AVERAGE time to complete all units will be 800.0

Computation of time to produce a specific unit

Enter the number of the specific unit in the production run for which
you wish to know the specific completion time 2
The time to complete this unit is expected to be 600.0

Computation of total time to produce a specific batch of units

Enter the specific unit number for the first unit in the batch 1
Enter the specific unit number for the last unit in the batch 2
The TOTAL time to produce this batch is expected to be 1,600.0