Martins wahre Logistik

Anyone hearing this for the first time rolls their eyes. Video games. University studies. Logistics. They don’t seem to fit together. Here is the proof of the opposite. At its core, Factorio is a production and logistics simulation that never stops getting more complex. The player builds factories, optimizes material flows, fights bottlenecks, and scales capacity. Eventually, you find yourself sitting there at 2 a.m. realizing you are currently practicing operations management. That is exactly what I used. Not as a gimmick, not to lighten things up. As a real learning lab. What came out of it surprised even me, because the students and I took completely different paths. With different results. The factory was not optimized.  Starting point: it runs, but yields very little. Savegame   Excel-Calculation t the start, the students were given a running factory. That sounds fair. It was, but only at first glance. I describe the scenario in this post. The factory produced. It ran. I...