~/fde $ industrial training, played as a board game

Industrial training that sticks.
Played, not presented.

Field Device Empire is a dynamic training game for sales and technical teams in instrumentation, electrical, mechanical and IT. Learn products, competitors and troubleshooting by playing real scenarios against the clock, solo or as a team of up to 5.

Play solo1 Start a team session2

3New to the game? Read the full How to Play guide.

betaNew: create your own questions and play them with your team.

// For sales teams of OEMs and distributors, maintenance crews and training departments.

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Game modes

2

Disciplines

4

Industries

8

Technical plants

5

Technical questions

636

Sales scenarios

347

Players per room

5

Turns per shift

12

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Your own questionsCSVEN · PTbeta
01

Why teams train with it

Classroom training is forgotten within weeks. A game asks people to decide, see the consequence and try again, which is how knowledge is retained. Field Device Empire packs that loop into a shift of twelve turns.

01

Knowledge that sticks

Active recall under a ticking clock beats slides and PDFs. Every answer has a consequence on the board, so the reasoning behind it is remembered long after the session.

02

New-product training

Turn a launch into a playable scenario: when to offer the new product, which application it wins, and where it is the wrong fit.

03

Competitor training

Rival reps contest the same deals in real time. Teams learn to defend price, argue on technology and spot when a competitor is underquoting.

04

Sales behaviour

Qualify the need, configure the right solution, protect margin and negotiate within budget. The habits of a good rep, practiced on every turn.

05

Technical levelling

The same field-tested question bank for everyone gives managers a common baseline across shifts, sites and experience levels.

06

Faster onboarding

New hires walk the portfolio, the industries and the plant areas in a single shift, with immediate feedback instead of weeks of shadowing.

02

Who it's for

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Sales teams of OEMs and distributors

Field sales, inside sales and application engineers who quote, configure and negotiate every day.

  • Portfolio and application fit
  • Pricing, margin and negotiation
  • Competitive positioning
  • New-product launches
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Maintenance and technical teams

Technicians, field engineers and service crews who keep plants running and need to diagnose fast.

  • Troubleshooting by plant area
  • Know-how retention before retirements
  • Cross-skilling between disciplines
  • Shift-to-shift levelling
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Training departments

L&D and academy teams who need engaging, measurable sessions without building content from scratch.

  • Onboarding programmes
  • Workshops and kick-off meetings
  • Team competitions with rankings
  • Blended and remote sessions

Use cases

  1. 01

    Sales training

    From qualifying the request to closing within budget.

  2. 02

    Competitor training

    Win contested bids against rival reps, live.

  3. 03

    New-product launches

    Make the field confident with the new offer on day one.

  4. 04

    Technical levelling

    One question bank, one baseline for the whole team.

  5. 05

    Maintenance know-how retention

    Capture what senior technicians know before it walks out the door.

03

How it works

Three choices set up every session: the mode decides what you practice, the discipline decides the content, and the map decides where you play.

01 · Choose a mode

Sell the right solution

Sales

Tour an island city of 8 industries. Qualify each request, configure the right solution at the right price, outbid rival reps and hit your revenue target with healthy margin.

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Keep the plant running

Technical

Be the field engineer on a working plant. Walk the process, solve each area's real troubleshooting calls and build your reputation with the operators. No selling, pure engineering.

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02 · Pick a discipline

Both modes come in four subcategories, so each team trains on its own trade.

  • INS

    Instrumentation

    Field devices: flow, level, pressure, temperature, analyzers and the protocols that connect them.

  • ELE

    Electrical

    Power distribution, motors, drives, protection and switchgear.

  • MEC

    Mechanical

    Pumps, bearings, gearboxes, seals, compressors and vibration.

  • IT

    IT

    Industrial networks, servers, OT security and plant software.

03 · Play the map

Roll the dice, travel to the request and answer it before the clock runs out.

  • Sales

    An island city with 8 industries, from life sciences to data centers, plus your HQ.

  • Technical

    Five working plants: wastewater, copper mining, potable water, chemical and an offshore FPSO, each with its own process areas and operators.

  • Twelve turns per shift by default, three difficulty levels, results at the end.
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Screens

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Sales mode: your island city, 8 industries, one HQ, endless requests

● Click any screen to see it full size. Five technical plants are live today, the newest an offshore FPSO; more maps are on the way.

05

Multiplayer for teams

Turn a training session into a live competition.

Open a room, share the code and up to 5 players join the same city or plant in real time. Use it to energise a sales kick-off, run a technical workshop across sites or settle who really knows the new product line.

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  • Up to 5 players per room, in either mode
  • Sales: rivals counter-quote on the same customer
  • Technical: first to the operator gets the job
  • The host can bring their own question set (unranked)
  • Daily, weekly and yearly rankings per mode and discipline
06

Create your own questions

Your know-how, played on the same board.Beta

With a free account you can write your own multiple-choice questions in a spreadsheet, upload them as CSV, build Sales quotes from your own product catalog, and play them in solo games, in rooms you host or with your company. Your sets never mix with the official content.

What you get

  • Your products. Build a catalog of your portfolio, in your currency, and quote it in Sales games.

  • Your competitors. Write the objections and comparisons your reps really hear.

  • Your plant. Turn your sites' troubleshooting cases into board requests.

  • Onboarding. Give new hires a playable version of what they need in week one.

  • Before a launch. Refresh the team on the new offer right before it ships.

  • Solo or team. Practise a set alone, host a room where every player gets it, or share it with your company.

  • One CSV master. Keep the spreadsheet as the source and re-upload when content changes.

  • Bilingual. Upload an English file, a Portuguese file or both; players see their language.

Create a free accountSign in to My questionsRead the guide
~/questions/my-set.csvCSV · UTF-8
Same template in Excel, LibreOffice or Google Sheets

How it works

  1. 01Sign in and verify your email.
  2. 02Download the English or the Portuguese template (one file per language).
  3. 03Fill one question per row (by hand or with the Fill with AI prompt) and upload it to a named set. If any row has an error, nothing is imported and each error is listed so you can fix the file.
  4. 04For Sales quotes, open the Quote editor: pick a catalog template, then click the right configuration for each customer request.
  5. 05Pick the set in the Question source step and play.

Up to 10 sets, 150 questions per set, 10 per category for each industry or plant area.

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What's in the box

01

A living board game

Roll two dice and watch your character walk square by square across a 3D island, with a camera that follows the move: a sales city or one of five working plants, from a copper mine to an offshore FPSO. Event tiles bring shortcuts, delays and surprises.

02

Prove your expertise

636 field-tested technical questions across five plants, plus 347 sales scenarios across 8 industries: devices and networks, flow, level, pressure, gas and liquid analytics, from HART to Ethernet-APL. Reviewed by an instrumentation expert.

03

People with moods

Eight industries or up to nine plant areas per plant, each with its own personality. Lose their trust, whether customers or operators, and reputation slides fast.

04

The boss is watching

Let reputation slide too low and the boss, sales director or maintenance manager, calls for explanations. Three accounts or areas in the red and you're out.

05

English and Portuguese

The interface, the scenario banks, the game log and the signs on the 3D boards switch language in one click, so mixed teams train on the same content.

06

Free, in the browser

Nothing to install. Open a link on a laptop or tablet and the session starts. Currently in open beta.

Bring it to your next training session.

Try a shift on your own in ten minutes, then open a room for your team. Free, in the browser, nothing to install.

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