A pedagogical software tool for aiding the instruction of basic factory optimization concepts /

(i.e. the instructor and students), the Virtual Factory

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moehring, Chris Albert, 1969-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:(i.e. the instructor and students), the Virtual Factory
Access Relational Database Management System. The Virtual
and implemented. The model includes those elements necessary
batch sizes on cycle time.
classroom factory facility. In an attempt to solve this
classroom. Most of the software however, is intended either
Database Connectivity (ODBC) protocol and the Structured
Database, and the Virtual Factory Machine Emulator. The
emulator communicates with the database using the Open
Environment in the classroom and a discussion of how the
examples that illustrate how to use the Virtual Factory
Factory Machine Emulator is the students' interface into the
for a virtual factory and the parts to be produced. The
help demonstrate each concept to be conveyed. A prevailing
help students grasp the concepts taught to them in the
implemented in three main components: the factory operators
is intended to be used in the classroom by the instructor to
Little's Law, push versus pull systems, and the effects of
maintain an extremely expensive, and possibly dangerous,
object oriented programming (OOP) techniques. The machine
presents a design and prototype for a pedagogical tool which
problem in the Industrial Engineering domain is how to
problem, the Virtual Factory Environment model was designed
provide manufacturing students, studying production control,
Query Language (SQL) Finally, this thesis provides two
the needed factory experience without having to build and
to be used outside of the classroom, or to teach a subject
to emulate a real factory for educational purposes and are
Today there are many academic software programs available to
virtual factory and was written in Microsoft Visual C++ using
Virtual Factory Database houses all of the characteristics
Virtual Factory Database was implemented using the Microsoft
Virtual Factory Environment can be used to demonstrate
without the classroom or instructor entirely. This thesis
Item Description:"Major subject: Industrial Engineering".
Vita.
Physical Description:leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 100-101.