The speed—accuracy trade-off in industry

Colin G. Drury

doi:10.1080/00140139408963686

The speed—accuracy trade-off in industry

Colin G. Drury

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Abstract

In the class of resource-limited tasks, performance speed and accuracy are expected to be inversely related. However at the systems level, interventions which improve quality can provide benefits in throughput. Examining the speed-accuracy operating characteristic (SAOC) of industrial tasks shows that the apparent conflict between these two bodies of data is due to different types of intervention. A methodology for the systematic consideration of the speed-accuracy trade-off (SATO) is proposed, and its application to the tasks in aircraft structural inspection is developed as an example.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	747-763
Number of pages	17
Journal	Ergonomics
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139408963686
State	Published - Apr 1994

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