Management Games
- You can learn TOC.
- Focusing on local optimization does not contribute to overall improvement
- Identify bottlenecks and tune there, other areas can be rather worse
- So-called drum buffer rope
- The difference from reality is that there is no cost to inventory.
- You could make it cost more with mods.
- The information industry is not burdened with inventory.
- When money is available for lab research consumption, it looks like management.
- Or biters mutate like a flu virus, and research efforts are needed to create corresponding antibodies.
- The change in flasks needed when the Factorio study is completed and the next study is started and the resulting change in factory utilization and inventory is similar to a factory being forced to respond to changing market needs.
This page is auto-translated from /nishio/Factorio using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I’m very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.