A theoretical approach for considering practice effects when determining deployment schedules

Employees in production systems need to be trained to be able to work at a determined number of different workstations to ensure functional flexibility. Repetitive deployment at the same workstation leads to an increase of practice effects. For prediction purposes, knowledge about interrelations to anticipate a probable course of competence development and potential losses is required. This letter examines literature to interconnect influencing factors which have an impact on the role of practice within competence development of production tasks. We propose a mathematical function as a basis for future research activities which can be used to achieve more accurate predictions.