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The aim of the contribution is to introduce the project and to point out the possibilities of using computer simulation for the needs of more effective production logistics. Like many other tools and methods, logistics also greatly contributes to maintaining the company's competitiveness and resilience to external factors such as the crisis, inflation, falling demand, and so on. One of the key methods for maintaining balance is material planning. The most significant group, which, at the same time, forms the most relevant part of the material flow are raw and other materials and corporate work in progress and finished products. The aim is to analyse the material flow of the production process and then create a simulation to determine the length of production and identify the bottleneck. In order to get a better idea of the production process, a simulation model was developed in selected software tools as a project of custom production of treatment machines for mining activities. The impulse to start production is given by the customer, where every completed order is immediately dispatched to the customer. The order with the highest frequency in the production program of the company is used to create the material flow. The order consists of 6 machines, but the aim is to determine the length of the production of 1 machine and identify the bottleneck of the production process by simulation.

Keywords: Project, logistics, production, simulation model, efficiency

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