Introduction

How much do you know about Lean Manufacturing? Try this simulation and find out!

You are the director of a US-based plant manufacturing hybrid cars, selling to two regional markets.

This plant is in trouble. Senior management is concerned about high delivery delays, excessive inventories, unpredictable supplier performance, and a wide variation in production levels.

You've been charged with implementing a Lean Manufacturing program with an objective of resolving these concerns. You have 8 months to fix the problems at your plant.

You may schedule production with either a Push system based on long-term forecasts or a Pull system in which you change production month by month.

You will be scored on how well you provide reliable deliveries to customers, keep inventories low, and maintain level production.

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How Your Score is Calculated

You are scored for each round of the simulation. If you score perfectly during all rounds, you will get a cumulative score of 100,000 for the entire simulation.

Three factors determine your score:

Delivery times. Shorter delivery times will improve your score. Shorter delivery times mean that your customers receive your products sooner.
Inventory carrying costs. Reducing your inventory will improve your score. Smaller inventories mean lower inventory carrying costs. Be careful, though. If your inventories are too low, you'll have a stock out and increase your delivery time.
Production leveling. Maintaining even productivity from period to period makes it easier to run your plants efficiently.

Credits

The Lean Manufacturing Simulation was developed for Oracle by Forio Business Simulations. The simulation runs using the Forio Broadcast 2.0 web simulation server.

Photo (Introduction): Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 by whatknot.

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