Due to successful business performance of the company and the achievement of high quality of its products the demand for their products has greatly increased on the domestic and global market. However, challenges cannot be met in company's current capacities, so the company's management decided to invest into expansion, i.e. construction of new buildings and purchase of new machinery and equipment. Here, however, arises the problem of designing a production process so that the material flow is as fast and efficient as possible and that the internal transport costs are kept to a minimum. This master's thesis will review available methods for modelling the production process and flow simulation. It will analyse the existing material flow and various variants of models for the future. The objective function is determining the most suitable production process with minimized transport costs. An additional limitation in the design of production process will be to use production space as efficiently as possible. A comparison will be made between the existing and newly designed production process for selected products.
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