Date of Publication :30th June 2023

Abstract: The paper presents one of the empirical ways of increasing the competitiveness of enterprises, which is the digitization of production. A comprehensive process analysis is necessary for competent planning of the digitization of an enterprise and for the automation of production processes. The analysis of real processes can be replaced by a model analysis. In this sense, this paper proposes a new approach to the simulation of manufacturing processes based on an empirical model made with the help of Petri nets. Its capabilities and limitations are taken into account. The proposed empirical approach provides methods of structural and time analysis of the process under analysis. Therefore, it allows the recognition of operations and critical issues in communication and logistics within the enterprise and provides the opportunity to create a process optimization strategy. Petri nets provide the tool to analyze the possibility of parallel execution of the examined process and can provide the estimation of the effect of engineering. This paper presents an example of digitalization of the manufacturing model under analysis, grouped into three sectors, manufacturing, analysis, and control - where the effective role of digitalization is highlighted and, last but not least, the interpretation of information and decision-making.

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