Title
Learning maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) concepts in offshore wind industry through game-based learning.
Abstract
Digital Education Games (DEGs) have become increasingly popular as an educational tool in schools and for training professionals. However a review of literature has shown the limited use of such games in teaching concepts related to Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) in the engineering field. The contribution of this paper and the DEG is specific to MRO in offshore wind energy. In our DEG the player mimics the behavior of a single decision maker, namely, the manager of the MRO facility who is responsible for the day-to-day allocation of resources for the upkeep of two offshore wind farms. The game enables the player to learn from a complex planning task wherein idle MRO resources must be minimized. The aim of the game is to prevent loss of revenue brought about through inadequate maintenance of the windfarms. The game is developed in Microsoft Excel using the VBA programming environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/WSC.2015.7408234
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
maintenance repair and operations,MRO learning,offshore wind industry,game-based learning,digital education game,DEG,educational tool,school,professional training,resource allocation,offshore wind farm,Microsoft Excel,VBA programming environment
Revenue,Graphics,Computer science,Offshore wind power,Simulation,Visual Basic for Applications,Maintenance, repair and operations,Resource allocation,Decision maker,Game based learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4673-9741-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Navonil Mustafee137844.76
Anna Wienke200.34
Andi Smart341.42
Phil Godsiff492.61