DIGITALIZATION EFFECTS ON THE USABILITY OF LEAN TOOLS

: Current industrial engineering methods and techniques due to the complexity of new knowledge-based methods need to be extended to technologies and tools for modelling and simulation of production processes, logistics flows, production facilities as well as product design. It is important to focus on the whole life cycle of the company as well as the product. The article deals with the effects of digitization on lean-manufacturing tools that are often used in industrial practice.