ABSTRACT
Performance monitoring using a Learning Curve is traditionally a digital activity in the sense that the organisation has to wait until each successive unit is completed before any change in the underlying performance trend (i.e. learning rate) can be detected. The benefits of using Equivalent Unit Learning only apply to long duration tasks for which there are or will be several units in operation at the same time. Furthermore, there needs to be a quantitative or repeatable means of measuring physical achievement, other than unit completion. The rate of Equivalent Unit Learning down to the Hockey Stick Heel can be approximated to being the square root of the traditional completed Unit Learning Curve. The traditional Learning Curve technique based on completed units is akin to summing the row values across the columns, whereas the Equivalent Unit Learning can be likened to summing the column values through the rows.
