I am working with in aerospace company who is at the moment, very early in the production of their product. As such, they have a heavy learning curve and thus an item may take significantly longer than anticipated. The customer says that there are standards for the learning curve that can be applied per the iteration of the unit being produced. For example, unit 1 may take a learning curve of 3.9 times the operation machine/labor time. Unit 50 may be a learning curve of 1.1 times.

Logically, we would affect the operation efficiency on the shop order to reflect the learning curve. However, we do not have the capability of "automatically" adjusting the operation efficiencies as the learning curve has improved.

Has anyone ever encountered this and if so, what did you do to accommodate that? Thanks.