from the conferences organized by TANGER Ltd.
A great deal of research claims that Industry 4.0 is the future form of industrial development. By contrast, managers of Czech companies claim that their processes are not ready for this conception. Usually they only try to optimize existing production systems. The aim of the paper is to find out whether partial optimization can cause a substantial increase in the productivity. This article focuses on verifying the use of lean principles in production.It is a simpler way of implementing one of the basic ideas of Industry 4.0. The goal of such a workplace is not only to increase productivity but also to optimize material flows in an enterprise and meet customer demands. Methods of industrial engineering (layout optimization, workplace standardization, work-studies) are used in the article. The desired production cycle was used in the search for a suitable layout and production line balancing. Also, the essential number of operators was considered. In order to find the best layout, we counted time consumption of all operations using two different methods and compared the results.
Keywords: productivity increase, industrial engineering, production lines balancing, work-study.© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.