Push Versus Pull and Mass Customization: A Lego Inukshuk Demonstration

Snider, Brent; Eliasson, Janice B.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4609.2009.00225.x

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“…The application of teaching-learning dynamics within Production Engineering has been reported frequently in simulations and games involving concepts of production management. Snider & Eliasson (2009), in turn, used LEGO® mounting parts to explain the differences between manufacturing and remanufacturing in programming environments with the MRP I (Material Requirements Planning) and MRP II (Manufacturing Resources Planning) systems. Gokhale (1995) observed that students who participated in active teaching experiments performed better on critical analysis tests than students who studied individually.…”

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Signatures factory: a dynamic alternative for teaching - learning layout concepts and waste disposal

Vieira

2017

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The use of games and simulation has now spread as a teaching support tool of engineering. This article aims to discuss this reality and this need, presenting as proposed a didactic game in a signature's factory. From this, it was suggested that the participants involved modify the simulated factory environment through the knowledge acquired during the factory design discipline and layout. Various topics related to Production Engineering were addressed, such as layout, Takt time (TT), standardization of processes, elimination of waste and activities that add / do not add value. As a result, it was possible to see, among many things, the significant improvement in the understanding and assimilation of theoretical concepts by the participants. With the practice of simulation one can demonstrate and experience possible cases and difficulties they face on a daily basis within the factory environment. KeywordsEducational dynamics. Layout. Takt time. Kaizen. Production engineering. In the last sections, the results of activity and a satisfaction survey that was applied to the participants are discussed, and the final considerations of work are presented.

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Section: Dynamics For the Teaching-learning Processmentioning

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Signatures factory: a dynamic alternative for teaching - learning layout concepts and waste disposal

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2017

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“…Built upon the work of Billington (2004), Snider and Eliasson (2009), and Vaughan and Gartner (2009), it is pedagogical exercise that utilizes approximately 20 students to support a four-tier supply chain, consisting of a customer, a focal manufacturer, and multiple raw material (RM) suppliers (two tiers) to produce paper airplanes. Built upon the work of Billington (2004), Snider and Eliasson (2009), and Vaughan and Gartner (2009), it is pedagogical exercise that utilizes approximately 20 students to support a four-tier supply chain, consisting of a customer, a focal manufacturer, and multiple raw material (RM) suppliers (two tiers) to produce paper airplanes.…”

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“…To facilitate students' understanding of LSS supply chain management principles, we describe a progressive, "hands-on" simulation that emphasizes the short comings of traditional approaches to supply chain management and the benefits of LSS application. Built upon the work of Billington (2004), Snider and Eliasson (2009), and Vaughan and Gartner (2009), it is pedagogical exercise that utilizes approximately 20 students to support a four-tier supply chain, consisting of a customer, a focal manufacturer, and multiple raw material (RM) suppliers (two tiers) to produce paper airplanes. In each simulation run, which lasts exactly five minutes, the airplane supply chain is asked to fill 60 randomly distributed customer orders, each order consisting of a single red, green, or blue airplane.…”

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Teaching Lean Six Sigma within A Supply Chain Context: The Airplane Supply Chain Simulation

Ellis

Goldsby

Bailey³

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Decision Sci J Innov Edu

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Lean six sigma is a management methodology that firms can employ to achieve substantial improvement in supply chain performance. However, few pedagogical exercises facilitate students' use of a comprehensive set of lean six sigma principles within a supply chain context. We describe the Airplane Supply Chain Simulation that helps students understand how lean six sigma concepts may be leveraged to improve supply chain performance. The basis of this simulation is a four-tier supply chain, consisting of suppliers (two tiers), a manufacturer, and a customer, that produces three models of paper airplanes to meet randomly distributed customer demand. In the first of three successive runs, a highly structured simulation is executed in which supply chain roles are well defined, material flows are convoluted, and a "push" production strategy is followed. The first simulation as the "current state" and, for the second and third simulation runs, challenge competing student teams to leverage lean six sigma concepts to develop a "future state" that enables the fulfillment of all customer orders at the lowest cost. Results based on statistical analyses of survey response data from 194 MBA students * Corresponding author. 288 Teaching Lean Six Sigma within A Supply Chain Contextshow that the Airplane Supply Chain Simulation is an effective participative, team-based learning tool.

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“…The simulation presented here falls into the final category: tangible product. Like the simulation presented by Snider and Eliasson (), in which students created Duplo Lego Inuit rock structures, students actually make something (using a “toy” many are familiar with from childhood) rather than input data, interact with a software via a keyboard, or watch charts modify in response to supply chain events (based on the “draw of a card” or randomized based on some pre‐defined probability distribution). They see, first hand, increasing (or depleted) inventories, “machine” breakdowns, set‐up interruptions, and quality failures all while being engaged in the same sorts of multidisciplinary interaction and collaboration that have positive learning effects demonstrated in the reports from the other simulation approaches.…”

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Chantey Castings: A Hands‐On Simulation to Teach Constraint Management and Demand‐Driven Supply Chain Approaches

Grandzol

2018

Decision Sci J Innov Edu

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Supply chain design and constraint management are widely-adopted techniques in industry, necessitating that operations and supply chain educators teach these topics in ways that enhance student learning and retention, optimize resource utilization (especially time), and maximize student interest. The Chantey Castings Simulation provides a platform to accomplish all three criteria. In a fun, collaborative environment, students learn important concepts related to these techniques by identifying obstacles to matching customer demand with sourcing, production, and logistics for a variety of products made from Play-Doh. Assessment data indicate the simulation is a highly-effective experiential learning activity.Subject Areas: Constraint management, Demand-driven supply chain approaches, Hands-on simulation.

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Push Versus Pull and Mass Customization: A Lego Inukshuk Demonstration

Cited by 12 publications

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Signatures factory: a dynamic alternative for teaching - learning layout concepts and waste disposal

Signatures factory: a dynamic alternative for teaching - learning layout concepts and waste disposal

Teaching Lean Six Sigma within A Supply Chain Context: The Airplane Supply Chain Simulation

Chantey Castings: A Hands‐On Simulation to Teach Constraint Management and Demand‐Driven Supply Chain Approaches

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