Chocolate Factory User Guide
This section presents a complex system: a simulation of a chocolate factory. Your task will be to manage the chocolate factory, which requires you to make decisions about various stocks and flows in the simulation. You have the opportunity to use some of your previous training on stocks, flows and feedbacks.
Please read the following instructions carefully. To begin a session:
- Start the program
- When a box appears, enter your Identification Number and click ‘Ok’.
- An image will appear with the credits, click anywhere on the image to continue.
- When a box with licence information appears, accept the licence conditions by clicking ‘Ok’.
- The main Menu will finally appear.
Main Menu This is the main menu of the software. The date at the top tells you the current month and year within the micro-world. The purpose of each button will be discussed briefly here, but it is also up to you to explore for yourself (learning how it all works is part of the game).
Notice that you can access each menu via the shortcut using the F# (Function) keys. Once a window is open, you need to first close it before you can open another one; you do so by clicking on the ‘Close’ tab. Occasionally the ‘Close’ tab may be hard to see. In this case you can close the window by clicking Alt+Funtion key.
Next time step will proceed to simulate one month in this micro-world; all actions you want to impose on the Chocolate Factory during that month need to be taken before clicking on ‘Next time step’. Upon clicking, all your decisions will be implemented in the factory for one month.
Notice that, every few times steps, a window appears saying “Please fill in letter to shareholders…”; disregard this message and simply press Ok. This will execute the time step (that is, you do not need to click on ‘Next time step” again to run the factory for the current month)
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