USE OF STANDARDS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIROENENT by A. J. Payne University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Abstract This paper reviews the effects of standards when they are applied to the learning of a production technique. In the first part we describe what has been published on the subject previously. The second section develops a theoretical model for the learning of a production operation and then we apply it to experimental results which are described in part three. Introduction Standards are used in engineering and scientific environments to help cut costs in the production of units (Ref. I). They have also been applied to the organisation and methods studies as teclmiques for evaluating efficiency (Ref. 2). As far as manufacturing is concerned we can establish the cost savings by having standards when it comes to cost~ig out the assembly lines and storage of spares (Ref. 3). In personnel evaluation it is used to measure relative efficiency of one worker to another (Ref. 4). When it comes to producing software systems we have only descriptions of qualitive or relative effects of standards (Ref. 5). Learning is studied as a part of Psychology (Ref. 6) or of Education (Ref. 7).
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