Improving manufacturing processes using simulation methods

The paper presents the results of simulation research on buffer space allo-cated in a flow line and operation times influence on the throughput of a manufacturing system. The production line in the study consists of four stages and is based on a real machining manufacturing system of a small production enterprise. Using Tecnomatix Plant Simulation software, a simulation model of the system was created and set of experiments was planned. Simulation experiments were prepared for different capacities of intermediate buffers located between manufacturing resources and op-eration times as input parameters, and the throughput per hour and aver-age life span of products as the output.