ABSTRACT
Manual assembly and manufacturing operations require sensory and motor skills - so called sensorimotor skills. Since skills must be acquired, the first-time sensorimotor performance might be insufficient contrary to multiple repetitions. The period of time from a tasks' first execution until reaching a predefined level of performance, refened to as learning time, is investigated in the paper. The goal is to support process planners as well as personnel dispatchers to predict learning time. For this purpose, inter alia, cultural influences have been examined in laboratory experiments with European and Asian subjects (n=60). The results prove the occunence of a learning eftect and show no significant cultural influence.
