IndustriesManufacturing & factories
Practise running a factory before you run a real one
Step into a simulated manufacturer with machines, customers, suppliers and colleagues. Plan what to build, fix what breaks, and see how every choice affects orders, costs and people.
- Runs in
- A web browser, 3D included
- One exercise
- 20 to 55 minutes
- Practice levels
- Six, from worked example to exam
- Working tools
- 8 used in these exercises
A real exercise
The press on Assembly B stopped in the middle of a batch, and a customer order is due this week. You walk the line in 3D, read the machine's signals, check the repair manual, and lock the line out before you touch anything. Then you tell the maintenance lead what is broken and what to order.
How it works
Every exercise follows the same rhythm as the real job: a problem arrives, you investigate, you act, and the simulated company responds.
- 01
A problem arrives
An email, an alarm or a phone call: a machine is failing, demand has jumped, or a supplier is late.
- 02
You look around
Walk the plant in 3D, open the plans and machine data, and ask colleagues who were there before you.
- 03
You decide and act
Change the plan, order parts, lock out a machine, raise a work order. The tools are the ones planners and engineers use.
- 04
The plant reacts
Orders ship late or on time, costs go up or down, stock runs out or piles up. Then you see what happened and why.
What you practise
Concrete tasks taken from the exercises on this page. Each one is done with real data, under real constraints, inside the same simulated company.
- T01
Plan the next quarter
Forecast demand, agree a sales and production plan, and turn it into a weekly schedule.
- T02
Work out what to order
Use the bill of materials and stock levels to decide which parts to buy or make, and when.
- T03
Handle a machine breakdown
Find the cause from machine data and history, repair it safely, and protect the orders it puts at risk.
- T04
Follow lockout/tagout
Isolate energy before you work on equipment. The simulation refuses unsafe steps instead of letting them slide.
- T05
Check capacity
Find out when the plan asks for more hours than the line has, and choose overtime, outsourcing or a new sequence.
- T06
Recover from a late supplier
A delivery slips. Re-plan, talk to the customer and pick the cheapest way to keep the promise.
What your organisation gets
Evidence, not attendance.
- 01
People learn on a plant that never stops
Mistakes cost nothing, but they still have visible consequences, so the lesson sticks.
- 02
You see how each person works
Every step is recorded: what they checked, who they asked, what they changed. Not only the final number.
- 03
Safety habits are practised, not just read
Lockout, checks and handovers are part of the exercise, and skipping them is noticed.
- 04
Your own procedures can become exercises
Trainers can turn a written procedure into a new practice exercise, with AI help for the first draft.
The tools you work with
Working tools, not screenshots. They read the same live data as the rest of the simulated company, and what you change in one shows up in the others.
- 01
Machine data
Vibration, temperature, cycle time and throughput per work centre, over time.
- 02
Work orders
Work orders, repair history, spare parts and who is assigned to what.
- 03
Master schedule
Build the weekly schedule and see what can still be promised to customers.
- 04
Material planning
Explode the bill of materials, net it against stock and release orders.
- 05
Bill of materials
Walk the product structure level by level and see where each part is used.
- 06
Capacity
Load against available hours per work centre, with overtime and offload options.
- 07
Job sequencing
Order released jobs by rule or by hand and compare how late each plan runs.
- 08
Operations report
Results by period, traced back to the decisions that moved them.
Six levels, one exercise
Teachers and trainers choose how much help each person gets. The exercise stays the same; only the guidance and the grading change.
- L1
Watch it done
The exercise solved step by step, with what each step changed.
- Hints
- Read only
- Graded
- No
- L2
Step by step
The next move is pointed out, every hint is open, goals update as you work.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L3
With hints
Every hint is open, but finding the next step is up to you.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L4
On your own
Hints stop short of the worked answer. Goals still update as you go.
- Hints
- Some hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L5
Exam
No hints and no AI helper. Results appear only after you submit.
- Hints
- None
- Graded
- Yes
- L6
Free play
An open what-if sandbox. Try anything; nothing counts towards a grade.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- No
What every attempt leaves behind
Judge the work, not a quiz score. Every attempt is recorded as it happens, so you can see how someone worked, not only where they ended up.
Every action, in order
What was checked, who was asked, what was changed and when. Nothing is overwritten.
Scores by skill
Each exercise scores the skills it was built to test, from what was actually done.
Weak habits, flagged
Poor patterns in how the work was done are flagged, not only wrong final answers.
A replay of the attempt
Step through the session as it happened, with typed personal details masked.
- A problem arrives
- You look around
- You decide and act
- The plant reacts
Is this a game?
No. It looks and feels like real work: emails, plans, machine data and a 3D plant. There are no points to collect. You are judged on whether your decisions were sound and safe.
Do we need special hardware?
No. It runs in a normal web browser on a laptop or desktop computer, including the 3D plant.
Can it use our own plant and machines?
Today the exercises take place in a realistic simulated manufacturer. Trainers can write exercises from your own procedures. Modelling your actual site is on the roadmap, not available yet.
Does it replace certified safety training?
No. It is a place to practise procedures like lockout/tagout until they become habit. It does not issue regulatory certificates.
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See it with your own people
Start with a pilot: one course or one team. We help you choose the exercises and measure the results.