Virtual Factory Teaching System (VFTS)
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
| Discipline(s): |
Industrial Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): | |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Simulation |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Jeff Rickel |
| Publisher(s): |
USC Information Sciences Institute USC Information Sciences Institute |
| Description: | (Developed under NSF grants CRLT/CDA-961637 and EEC-9872488) The Virtual Factory Teaching System (VFTS) is designed to help engineering and business students grasp complex factory dynamics that are difficult to teach in chalkboard lectures and impossible to experiment with in real factories. The system allows students, working alone or in teams, to build factories, forecast demand for products, plan production, establish release rules for new work into the factory, and set scheduling rules for workstations. They can run simulations, and an animated panel displays jobs progressing through their factory, with queue counts, finished goods counts, graphs, and reporting functions all available. More information can be found at http://vfts.usc.edu |
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| Keywords: | vfts engineering education factory |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | April 2001 |
| Platform/Format: |
PC |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://vfts.isi.edu/docs/vfts.htm |
| Copyright and Use Restrictions: |
Copyright 1999 |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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