There are plenty of good lessons and fun to be had by playing games, no doubt. Consider your closest manufacturing facility. Machines break down. Suppliers ship unacceptable product. People make mistakes.
Parts go on back order.
Money doesn't grow on trees. There are only too many paths to mediocrity, or worse, failure. Discipline is what's needed in the plant . . . Guys in White Shirts Meet John Lightcap and Gary Pelini, staff engineers with the Equipment Management Group at Honda of America Manufacturing's Anna Engine Plant in Ohio. Although the training program has only been running for a short time, Lightcap and Pelini are already sold on its potential success.