MSDG Tutorial

Peter L. Jackson, John A. Muckstadt, John M. Jenner

School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Cornell University

Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Synthesis Coalition for Engineering Education.

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• Title
• Sample Screens
• Abstract
• Related Topics
• Background Assumed
• Duration of Exercise
• Supplementary Lecture
• Software Requirements
• Copyright
• Assessment
• Files
• Other Documents

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MSDG Information Flows

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Abstract

The MSDG Tutorial is a map of the concurrent engineering information flows used in the Manufacturing System Development Game. It is not the game itself. The actual game is played with an extensive set of spreadsheets and other analytical software (available separately). The tutorial is structured as a simple game of seek and find. A multiple choice quiz is also provided.

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Related Topics

Concurrent Engineering

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Background Assumed

Students have played the Manufacturing Operations Game before this. No other preparation is required.

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Duration of Exercise

Tutorial can be conducted in a 2 hour microcomputer laboratory session. Typically, two students per microcomputer team. Play the tutorial for between 20-30 minutes and then answer all the questions in the quiz. To answer the questions in the quiz, the students will jump back and forth between the quiz book and the tutorial book.

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Supplementary Lecture

A lecture describing the product and process for the manufacturing system must be given before this tutorial. See the Game manual (available separately).

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Software Requirements

Microsoft Windows 3.1
Toolbook Runtime v.1.5

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Copyright

Public domain. Modify as you wish.

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Assessment

We created this tutorial because students were overwhelmed with the information flows in the Manufacturing System Development Game. They have been very appreciative of this tutorial and many of them referred back to it during play of the game.

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Files

To download the zip file, click here: msdg.zip (236294 bytes). Contents:

tutorial.tbk

Tutorial exercise describing information flows. (Asymmetrix Toolbook v. 1.5)

tutorial.tbk

Multiple choice quiz. (Asymmetrix Toolbook v. 1.5)

msdg.txt

This note. (ASCII text)

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Other Documents

• Biographical Sketches
• Peter L. Jackson Home Page

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