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Control Principles

Synopsis of game

Manual game illustrating the relationship between material and production control through a number of departments in a total supply- and production chain. In the game trucks are produced in two variants according to customer orders. After each round of the game results are measured in terms of WIP, back-orders and capacity utilization.

The game is applied in teaching various concepts of industrial engineering and in particular in modeling and simulating manufacturing systems. Furthermore it is suitable for cost management and performance measurement courses.