{"id":352,"date":"2013-10-24T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T23:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Simulating-learning-curve-with-Tecnomatix-Plant-Simulation\/ba-p\/335172"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:56","slug":"simulating-learning-curve-with-tecnomatix-plant-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/simulating-learning-curve-with-tecnomatix-plant-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulating learning curve with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>One of my favorite excuses to justify a&nbsp;poor performance is by saying, \u201cWell\u2026I\u2019m still in a learning curve.\u201d <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"smileyhappy\" class=\"emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/i\/smilies\/16x16_smiley-happy.png\" alt=\"Smiley Happy\" title=\"Smiley Happy\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>Nevertheless, as you know learning curve does exist, and it is a key metric for industrial engineers for predicting production throughput and capacity requirements. In <A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2013\/10\/LearningCurve.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16725\" alt=\"LearningCurve\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2013\/10\/LearningCurve-300x257.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/A>essence, engineers have to consider the fact that with experience workers can process more units per period, and they want to use this information while designing assembly lines.<BR \/><BR \/>Tecnomatix <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/plant_design\/plant_simulation.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Plant Simulation <\/A>allows you to verify digitally if production rates are achievable and sufficient resources are available to support the production rates.<BR \/><BR \/>In this video, you will learn how Plant Simulation can show the effects of learning curves in analyzing production throughput. The best thing is that Plant Simulation provides you the freedom to define your own learning curve equation from your empirical data. You can specify different learning curve for different operations to get a realistic representation of your assembly processes.<BR \/><BR \/>You can try <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/free-trial\/plant-simulation.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Plant Simulation free for 30 days <\/A>and explore its capabilities.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qg7tDwDOkDU\"><\/IFRAME><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite excuses to justify a&nbsp;poor performance is by saying, \u201cWell\u2026I\u2019m still in a learning curve.\u201d <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"smileyhappy\" class=\"emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/i\/smilies\/16x16_smiley-happy.png\" alt=\"Smiley Happy\" title=\"Smiley Happy\" \/>    Nevertheless, as you know learning curve does exist, and it is a key metric for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[331],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-tecnomatix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}