Question: A company is performing on an 85 percent learning curve.

If the first
unit requires 620 hours, how much time will be required for the 300th unit?
Answer:
According to the formula: T_n= T_1 . X^(-k)
X is 300 units
K is 0.235 from the learning curve table at 85 percent.
T1 time taken to produce first unit
T_n= T_1 . X^(-k)=620 .300^0.235 = 162 hours.
It would take around 162 hours to produce the 300th unit.
Problem 18-3
Question: A company working on a 75 percent learning curve has decided that the
production standard should be 85 hours of production for the 100th unit. How much
time should be required for the first unit? If the first unit requires more hours
than you anticipated, does this mean that the learning curve is wrong?
Answer:
Like the previous problem, X is 100 units
K is 0.415 from the learning curve table at 75 percent.
T100 time taken to produce 100th unit is 85 hours
T_1= T_100 . X^k=85 .100^0.415 = 575 hours.
Typically, a 75% learning curve implies a 25% decrease in time each time the number
of repetitions is doubled. If the first unit requires more hours than anticipated,
then it means that the learning curve is wrong, and the actual learning curve is
even higher than anticipated.

Problem 20-5
Question: on what type of projects might it be necessary to perform 100%
inspection rather than inspection sampling?
Answer:
Acceptance sampling is a statistical process of evaluating a portion of a lot for
the purpose of accepting or rejecting the entire lot, it also serves as a quality
control check and technique. There are typically three common sampling criteria to
the usually 100% or zero inspection; single, double and multiple sampling.
Since inspection is expensive and time consuming, it is very important to decide
on how to achieve it. On the other hand, some projects will not only expect but
require 100% inspection, it is for when the consequences of letting a defective
item through could be quite severe and even dangerous. Most of the 100% inspections
come from government regulations, products requiring perfections (Apple�s iPhone),
demanding customers or simply because of known quality issues. Some of these
projects� examples will also be in electrical fuses manufacturing, aircraft and
public transit and bridges and tunnels.
Additionally, 100% inspection would be for projects that involve, safety, life
sustaining products, avionics systems, building construction and for any project
that ask for compliance and conformity requirements. It could at times, be used as
a containment action until a time when sampling is available and considered.