Give Your Students the Competitive Edge Employers Want
Help your students stand out in the job market by building their systems thinking and problem-solving skills with hands-on process modeling. With Process Playground, students gain practical experience solving core operational challenges like:
- Bottlenecks and flow imbalances
- Excessive wait times and cycle times
- Resource constraints and underutilization
- Rework loops and defects
- Batching vs. one-piece flow tradeoffs
A Powerful Teaching Tool Without the Teaching Curve
Process Playground is easy to adopt, visually engaging for students, and comes with ready-to-use instructor materials to fit seamlessly into your existing curriculum. Need ideas? Check out this webinar, "Using Modeling to teach Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC."
- No downloads or installation – 100% web-based software and accessible anywhere.
- Ready-to-Use Classroom Materials – Reinforce key topics like bottlenecks, queues, resource management, and flow dynamics.
- Pre-built exercises for students – Help learners quickly grasp simulation basics with a library of real-world scenarios and step-by-step modeling guides.
- Flexible for different courses – Easily fits into Industrial Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or Quality classes.
Bring Systems Thinking to Life
Process Playground is a web-based simulation tool built for education, making it easy for students to model, test, and understand real-world systems. Through hands-on learning with process modeling, students build the skills they will need to make smarter, data-driven decisions when it comes time.
- Model Real-World Systems — Create digital twins of supply chains, healthcare operations, workflows, and more.
- Test and Improve Proccesses — Let students experiment with changes and see the impact without costly trial and error.
- Reinforce Core Concepts — Bring flow, bottlenecks, and variability to life through simulation.
- Build Data-Driven Thinkers — Teach students how system data drives better decision-making.
See The Impact Process Modeling Has Across Industries
Process Playground isn't just a teaching tool, it's used by healthcare systems, manufacturers, and service organizations to solve complex challenges and optimize performance with confidence.
Show Students How Their Learning Applies on the Front Lines
When students model real-world systems in class, they gain the exact skills organizations use to improve care delivery, increase output, and reduce costly inefficiencies.
This is the kind of work your students could be preparing for:
- How Dartmouth Health Uses Process Modeling to Predict the Unpredictable: Dartmouth's OpEx team uses simulation to tackle challenges like patient care, staffing, and system design without disrupting day-to-day operations. Read Dartmouth Health's Full Story.
- Process Modeling Fuels Operational Excellence in High-Stakes Industry: Medtronic nearly doubled production output and increased operator and machine utilization from 70 to 98% by optimizing workflows with process modeling. See How Medtronic Leverages Modeling.
- Process Modeling Produces Transformation Recipe for Success: A popular pizza chain and Service Physics used process modeling to rapidly transform operations and reduce risk, saving time and money. Read How a Pizza Line Got a Lean Makeover.
How Process Playground Supports Teaching and Learning
Simulation is important to teach and Process Playground lowers the barrier to entry. It is easy enough that within one tutorial and one homework students can get to non-trivial models.
Itai Gurvich
Northwestern University
Process Playground is so elegantly simple. Process Modeling allows us to be incredibly efficient and a lot more creative in our hypothesis testing because we can dream big, right? It's just a matter of changing parameters in the model, and we can show each other and show our users and operators: 'Well, if we make this change, this is what will happen to our output' - and it's just a matter of clicks.
Ryan Magnuson
Medtronic
The MoreSteam team bends over backwards to provide support and opportunities to sharpen one's skills (I particularly appreciate "Modeling Mondays," short worked out examples of different Process Playground models featuring techniques for building specific functionalities). Overall, it's been a real find and a valuable addition to my bag of tricks.
Tim A.
Government Administration
