Digital tools for production planning as part of decision-making processes in the manufacturing systems

The concept of digitalisation is making inroads into all areas of production systems as part of Industry 4.0. In our case, we are dealing specifically with the digital planning of production resources and production processes. Digitized solutions are included in this paper as case studies. Our goal was to develop digital models of manufacturing systems and simulation models for manufacturing processes in the Witness Horizon digital simulation environment. Simulation can be considered as one of the technologies used in the digital factory concept. It is a powerful tool that is often used for the design and analysis of complex systems. Decisions about a system are made through the construction of its computer models and experimentation on the models.