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Micromatic is a computer-based business simulation game that simulates a small manufacturing company.
The product is sold through retail markets to the general public in three different sales regions.
The prices you charge for your products, the level of quality you build into them,
plus how you choose to promote them, are decisions you will constantly face.
You will also have to decide whether to make the products yourself or to sub-contract the manufacture of them to another company.
There are two versions of the Micromatic Business Simulation Game, Team and Solo. In Team you will be part of
a group that will manage your company. Your company will compete with other companies in the same
marketplace that will be managed by other groups in your class. In Micromatic Team,
the administrator processes the decisions that teams make regarding the operation of their company
after collecting the decisions from all the competing teams. After processing, the teams will
make a new set of decisions based on the results of those just processed.
Each decision-round represents three months of operations (i.e., one quarter of a year).
Micromatic Solo is the play-alone version of the Micromatic Team.
The solo version places you in competition with companies managed by the computer rather than by
other groups in your class. The computer uses its own logic to manage these companies.
While your competitors will act rationally, they are not all-knowing, perfect competitors.
With practice, you can successfully compete against these companies.
In Micromatic Solo you process the decisions for the companies.
This includes the decisions you entered for your company as well as those determined by the
computer for your competitors.
When using the Micromatic Business Simulation Game, you will:
- Decide your company mission, goals, policies, and strategies.
- Develop skills in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling a business.
- Make decisions in the areas of:
- Marketing, including market research and sales forecasts.
- Finance, including short-term and long-term loans.
- Manufacturing, including raw materials, production, scheduling, staffing, and inventory control.
- Have the opportunity to ask "what-if" questions by entering a sales estimate and seeing what the
results of your decisions would be given this level of sales.
- See the results of your decisions and have an opportunity to correct mistakes in the following quarters of operation.
Need help getting started?
Feel free to print both manuals if you wish.
Before you can play the game you will need to first register. Register and to start playing the Micromatic Business Simulation Game today!
(Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 or highter required.)
Student Getting Started Video Tutorials
The tutorials listed below were provided for your benefit by Professor Paul Lapides of Kennesaw State University. Oak Tree Simulations wishes to thank Professor Lapides for sharing
his tutorials with the all of the Micromatic users. Thank you Paul!
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