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The article describes an example of applying the Witness simulation to ensure a smoother production process flow. The goal of this study had been obtaining the highest productivity in a mixed (serial-parallel) system while taking into account the minimization of supplies in interoperational buffers as well as minimizing the downtime of machines and operators. Further expectations included shortening the lead time of transit between each manufacturing stage. The limiting factor had been maintaining production volume at the level of 2000 products per shift. Managing production and timing tasks in a serial-parallel system while minimizing losses tends to be a challenging task. The factors decisive of the difficulty had been variables in processing time, refitting, availability, varying number of available operators and other random parameters (e.g. malfunctions).

Keywords: Production system, improvement of flow continuity, productivity

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