The competition in production market is increasing. The need to eliminate congestion costs, improper installation of production systems, poorly defined material flows, incorrect machine parameters, transport systems and production waste are becoming more and more important. Production companies try to achieve the principles of lean production and to incorporate those principles in project management, design, construction, logistics, transport etc. They try to achieve lean principles with elimination of waste in production by using already established tools. Two of these tools are value stream analysis and production process simulation with the use of computer software. The shared use of both these tools and their influence on one another has not yet been well researched. Those two factors are going to be explored in a practical example of a production of a real product.
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