Increasing the efficiency of the production process in Metal Holding Ltd.

The present thesis is dedicated to improving efficiency in a producing company. The thesis is based on a detailed analysis of operation of the company Metal Holding Ltd. active in the field of metal processing and waste recycling. The goal is to evaluate various proposals for raising efficiency in order to help making a decision about either acceptance or rejection of options and to show practical application of various methods how to increase operational efficiency on the example of a real business. The work includes qualitative and quantitative analyses of various options, which are also investment projects, in order to assess their effectiveness and potential. The first part provides an introduction to the topic, explains the basic concepts related to the above-mentioned field of business, creates a theoretical basis for the thesis. The second part introduces Metal Holding company, covers various aspects of its operation and describes the technologies currently applied. Next chapter contains a detailed description of the proposed actions and the reasons for their eventual implementation. Finally, the application part concentrates on quantitative evaluation of the proposals from the point of view of efficiency and helps select one of the options. The contribution of this work is demonstration of various methods how to improve efficiency of production on the example of a real company. The work presents the business, the field of hard metal recycling and some innovative ideas. It has also become a valuable source of information for the discussed company, the results of the research helped the management to make the investment decision. During work on this thesis various methods of primary and secondary research, from study of professional literature to direct measuring of various parameters in the company, were applied