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Flexible production management, as well as lean production, are the trend of our time. Small and medium-sized enterprises are under pressure from large enterprises since the latter has a well-established system and the resources to carry out experimental and pilot projects without harming the enterprise. Smaller enterprises are forced to respond flexibly to changes in the technology market and demand in cramped conditions. The study included an analysis of modern methods for assessing the effectiveness of Industry 4.0 technologies implementation and an analysis and comparison of the principle of lean production and Agile. Experts of a typical SME evaluated modern agile methods according to the selected methods, and the factors with the highest risk for the enterprise were also selected. During the study, the Agile and Lean methods were compared to select the appropriate method of assessing the attractiveness of Agile methodologies for MSP production management. Selected assessing methods could help introduce not only Agile or Lean components but other modern trends in management and manufacturing processes.
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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract No. APVV-19-0590, and also by the projects VEGA 1/0700/20, KEGA 022TUKE-4/2023 granted by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.
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Iakovets, A., Balog, M., Židek, K. (2023). Agile in the Context of Manufacturing SMEs. In: Ivanov, V., Trojanowska, J., Pavlenko, I., Rauch, E., Piteľ, J. (eds) Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VI. DSMIE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32767-4_13
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