Peter L. Jackson

Associate Professor
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
pj16@cornell.edu

This is the home page for educational materials by Peter L. Jackson and friends. From here you can get to any of the following:

Simulating an Inventory Policy Using Microsoft Access, a tutorial on combining SQL with procedural statements to create a simulation.
Quiz-on-a-Graph, Java-based interactive quiz/tutorial for product cost estimation.

The Workshop in Experiential Learning for Manufacturing System Design will not be held this year (1998). Join us instead for the William L. Maxwell Symposium and Dinner "A Sense of Artistry: Reminiscences on a Pivotal Career in Engineering," June 4, 1998 Cornell University. For information contact moore@orie.cornell.edu.
Course Materials for Manufacturing Systems Design, a description of the major course materials available
Student Evaluations of Llenroc Plastics, from Fall Semester 1993
Student Evaluations of the Manufacturing Operations Game, from Fall Semester 1996
MSDG Tutorial, a tutorial on the information flows in the Manufacturing Systems Development Game
Llenroc Plastics Factory Tour, a sampler of a multimedia factory tour
The Transportation Game, a routing and scheduling game
The Distribution Game, a game of managing inventories
The Warehouse Location Program, an analytical tool for determining warehouse location
Press 7 Simulation, a simulation model of an automated press
CGANTT, an analytical tool for manipulating cyclic production schedules

Cordial Road Landfill, a case in analyzing a landfill investment decision.
Oil Refinery Exercises, a detailed model of an oil refinery with operational and investment choices

The Illustrated Pivot, an interactive exercise illustrating the fundamental step in the simplex method of linear programming

NSF Realization Consortium Factory Simulation Modules
The Manufacturing Operations Game for Windows, a graphical facelift for the Manufacturing Operations Game
OPTLine, a simulation of a series of casting, turning, and drilling operations with detailed representation of process parameters
LPSQL, Block Form Representations of Linear/Integer Programs with Relational Databases
NSF Product Realization Consortium Product Cost Estimation Module
NSF Product Realization Consortium Quiz-on-a-Graph

Peter L. Jackson / November 8, 2007/ pj16@cornell.edu