Learning curves are a graphical representation of an employee performance improvement as a result of task repetition. This paper presents a literature review of the applications of learning curves. Firstly, a brief review of major models of learning curves is presented. Next, a review of the main uses of learning curves is presented grouped into five different areas of research: (i) Cost Monitoring, (ii) Production Management and Optimization, (iii) Task Scheduling, (iv) Assignment of Workers to Tasks and Assembly Line Balancing, and (v) Calculation of Economic Batch Quantity with the learning effect.
Learning curves; Production programming; Cost monitoring
