I'm curious.
What statistical distribution do you find most prevalent for a typical worker in an industrial process?
I'm curious to see if there are trends in the distribution and deviation, given a human worker with a saturated upstream flow (as in they're not waiting on parts to work), or if there is simply a distribution you prefer because it most closely reflects your data.
Caveat: I understand well how to perform time-studies and get the data for myself.
The distribution for task times can obviously vary widely, so using FlexSim's Empirical Distribution tool with at least 30 data points is recommended if possible.
However, I would think a Weibull distribution with a shape around 1.5(skewed slightly to the right) is probably the most prevalent for task times.
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