Value Stream Mapping is a common and widely used method of industrial engineering. It creates a comprehensive overview of the possibilities of improving the production flow of the company as a whole and eliminates the introduction of incremental measures that would reduce the flexibility of the system as a whole. This article presents a method for optimizing material and information flows in a production company in the context of the Industry 4.0. The aim of the article is to emphasize the potential of software tools in synergy with the classical tool of lean manufacturing -Value Stream Mapping (VSM). For this purpose, the case study is focused on digital VSM in environment of the simulation software TX Plant Simulation. The transformation of the classical digital approach allows dynamic evaluations based on real discrete simulation of events and a simple evaluation of optimized variants.
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