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Production Scheduling Basics: La Línea en Marcha

Simulation to teach production scheduling fundamentals through managing a textile factory production line, covering bottleneck analysis, sequencing decisions, setup cost trade-offs, and capacity management at Textiles Jalisco S.A. de C.V.

5 rounds Undergraduate English, Español
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Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Producto a Fabricar
  • Tiempo Extra

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Línea de Producción
  • Órdenes de Producción
  • Decisiones del Día
  • Orden Urgente Recibida

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Operations Management.

  • Capacity Planning & Facility Layout
  • Manufacturing Strategy

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