Game-based workshops for the wood supply chain to facilitate knowledge transfer

Abstract

Knowledge transfer between science, industry and education is needed to manage complex wood supply chains challenged by increasingly frequent risk events and natural disturbances. Discrete event simulation provides a high potential for stakeholder participation, pedagogical purposes and decision support but simulation models for the wood supply chain are rarely used in industrial training and university education. Consequently, this paper showcases the further development of a scientific discrete event simulation model for the wood supply chain to an intuitively usable workshop edition focusing on game-based design, visualization and animation. Furthermore, a resulting guideline to develop workshop structures consisting of an input, learning by doing and analysing stage including learning objectives is delivered. Presented experiences and feedback of conducted scientific, industrial and educational workshops illustrate the facilitated knowledge transfer. Simplification, visualization and stakeholder collaboration increase model reliability and suitability enabling the dissemination of adapted scientific discrete event simulation models in game-based workshops to sensitize, train and provide decision support for managers, students and researchers.