Reducing process time as task is learned
E. Lammers's response is excellent and generalizable. In the software being used, find the system variable keeping track of the number of times the task has been done (most softwares provide such a system variable) and use it to define the task time as a decreasing function of the number of times the task has been done (this time can be assigned to a modeler-defined variable used as the cycle time (task time). Furthermore, if the time required increases with the number of task completions (modeling fatigue of a human operator, for example), the function can be an increasing (versus a decreasing) function.
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E. Williams, PMC
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