EMN Event: Ecofactory Challenge Game Workshop

ECOFACTORY CHALLENGE GAME

The Ecofactory Challenge is an online game, designed for manufacturing companies to assess the performance and impact of investments in digital technologies. The game allows participants to choose their sector and size (small, medium and large) and provides options to invest in different industrial digital technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things, Collaborative Robots, Digital Twins, AI and Machine Learning, Additive Manufacturing, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Enterprise Resource Planning, E-commerce Platforms and back-office automation.

The game is played in a simulated environment covering a 10 year period and tracks multiple environmental performance related KPIs, operational, financial and health and safety related performance measures. Each year, a player receives prompts to capture external events such as energy price increases, supply shortages etc.

Prof. Atanu Chaudhuri from Durham University Business School will facilitate to play the game and seek feedback on the usefulness of the game and how it can be improved.