YieldForge: Introduction
Transcript, with a description of what is shown on screen.

Video: video/YieldForge-Intro.mp4, 1 minute 24 seconds.
Speakers: One speaker, the presenter: a woman in a dark blazer. She narrates the opening stock footage before she appears.
Sound: Speech only. There is no music.
The video also shows its own captions at the bottom of the frame.

[0:00] On screen: Stock footage: two workers in safety vests and hard hats walk through a machine shop full of CNC machines, then a close view of a milling machine cutting metal.
Presenter: Monday, six in the morning. Every machine on the floor is running, and the order board is full for weeks.

[0:07] On screen: Stock footage: hands measure a metal part with calipers, then a worker in safety glasses writes on a clipboard.
Presenter: Last year this plant set its best utilization record. It also posted its worst margins.

[0:12] On screen: Stock footage: the busy machine shop again, then a view from above of machines and a red walkway on the shop floor.
Presenter: Then the phone rings. A customer needs an emergency job by Friday and will pay up to three times the usual rate. There is not one free hour left.

[0:21] On screen: The presenter speaks in a blurred, blue lit open office with large screens. A gold banner reads: YieldForge: a yield management simulation.
Presenter: The plant is full. The money is missing. Find it. This is YieldForge, a yield management simulation. You are the new general manager of Tempo Precision, a contract manufacturer with more orders than machine hours.

[0:36] On screen: Stock footage: two people talk among warehouse shelves, then a close view of a drill spindle.
Presenter: Each week you decide which orders to run, reprice, outsource, delay, redesign or decline. Room held back for an emergency job can earn more than a full schedule. And customers keep score.

[0:49] On screen: Stock footage: a lathe at rest in low light, then a dim view along a machine bed.
Presenter: You learn that utilization is the wrong scoreboard, that a scarce hour should be priced before it is spent, and that a broken promise costs more than an honest refusal.

[0:59] On screen: The presenter in the office. A gold banner reads: Business courses, executive programs, company training.
Presenter: YieldForge is built for business courses, executive programs and company training in operations and pricing. You play solo, against five computer-run managers. Standard runs six weeks in about forty-five minutes.

[1:13] On screen: The presenter closes the video in the office.
Presenter: A full plant can still lose money, and YieldForge shows you why. Explore the simulation at pedagogix.ai.

[1:21] On screen: End card: the YieldForge logo and the address sims.pedagogix.ai on a plain background. No speech.

End of transcript.