Littlefield Technologies is an online factory simulator. In a typical setting, students are divided into teams and compete against each other over several days. Student teams attempt to maximize their cash position by buying and selling capacity, adjusting lead time quotes, changing lot sizes and inventory ordering parameters, and selecting scheduling rules. Littlefield Technologies is used by hundreds of business and industrial engineering programs to reinforce and motivate course material on

• queueing
• capacity and utilization
• inventory control
• lead time management.

The simulator may be used as the focus of one or more lectures. Alternatively, it can be used 'in the background' to motivate existing lectures without spending significant class time on the simulator itself.

Littlefield Technologies was developed with Sunil Kumar, Associate Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and Samuel Wood, former Assistant Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and currently president of Responsive Learning Technologies.

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The price per student is $15 per student per academic term for not-for-profit institutions. That entitles the institution to up to two simulations during the academic term. Bookstores or copy centers may add a markup to that price.

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