WHAT IS THE MANUFACTURING GAME®?
Have you ever wondered why you have not been able to attain your vision? Or why the changes you make never seem to last? If so, then The Manufacturing Game® is for you!

The Manufacturing Game® experience provokes participants into exploring their mental models and thinking systemically; it encourages collaboration through team learning and enhances communication.  Click here for a three minute video of one company's experience and an overview of the approach.

The Manufacturing Game® workshop is an innovative "high-touch, high-tech" learning lab using accelerated learning technology. These workshops create a profound change in beliefs and commitments about defect removal, and an immediate action plan for dramatically lowering defects in the participants' processes. This is the paradigm shift needed for an organizational change effort to work. Typical improvements have been forty percent fewer failures and a third lower costs within a short time frame.

These unique "practice fields" incorporate a highly integrated system of learning technologies into a single experience that compresses time and space and allows participants to quickly see the consequences of their decisions and strategies without the fear of failure or reprisal. Hence the learning laboratories are very powerful but gentle.

These workshops are geared for proactive leaders, ones who want bold and lasting change in the way work itself is done. Results are quick, with direct impact on the bottom line.
 
STRATEGIC PLANT SIMULATOR
The Manufacturing Game® is a strategic simulation of a manufacturing plant. It is a powerful tool for teaching the principles of Systems Thinking, High Commitment & High Performing Teams, planning, and defect elimination in a Total Quality environment. The Manufacturing Game® is particularly useful for revealing:
  • organizational breakdowns caused by "local" or functional perspectives
  • the challenges of reversing "momentum" of past practices within an organization
  • how the structure of a system drives its behavior
  • the tendency of feedback loops to amplify or diminish the actions and responses of management
  • breakdowns caused by operational and informational delays in the "system"
  • our tendency to focus on what is measurable rather than that which is important to make our decisions
  • actual steps for transforming a mediocre facility into one where production, quality, and teamwork are sustainably increased even as the resources required for operation are ultimately reduced
ACTION LEARNING
The Manufacturing Game® is a hands-on learning experience where participants work together in teams of three to six players. Team members make assessments about the operation and performance of their departments and the organization, make requests and promises to one another, and make increasingly proactive decisions about production, strategy, planning, inventories, manufacturing, effectiveness, maintenance, and the allocation of scarce resources.
 
COURSE OUTCOMES
Managers, staff, operators, mechanics, storeroom, and support personnel who play The Manufacturing Game® will benefit by becoming more effective at:
  • achieving global goals while handling functional tasks
  • collaborating with other functions to optimize organizational performance
  • maintaining a long term perspective while servicing short term needs and goals
  • viewing an organization's structure as a network of interactions with many feedback loops, delays, and constituencies
  • identifying the "high leverage intervention points" within such an organization to improve performance
  • thinking, planning and acting proactively in the midst of uncertainty and pressure
CONTACT TMG
Ledet Enterprises, Inc., dba The Manufacturing Game
7702 FM 1960 East, Suite 226
Humble, TX 77346
Tel. (281) 812-4148
Fax (281) 812-4149
E-mail: info@mfg-game.com
 

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