Learning Curve Theory 16.8 Illustration 2 A customer has asked your company to prepare a bid on supplying 800 units of a new product. Production will be in batches of 100 units. You estimate that costs for the first batch of 100 units will average ` 100 a unit. You also expect that a 90% learning curve will apply to the cumulative labour cost on this contract. Required : (a) Prepare an estimate of the labour costs of fulfilling this contract.
Karoshi (éå´æ­») This word is used to describe what happens when a person works themselves to deathâusually by means of a heart attack, stroke, or other form of stress-related cause. The Japanese characters for karoshi consist of the following three parts: é (ka) for excess, å´ (ro) for labor and æ­» (shi) for death.
Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (é»æ³ or é»æ³ã®å½, Yellow springs/wells) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go after life. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is impossible to return to the land of the living.