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Franchising as a specific form of business is one of most interesting and perspective forms of doing business in the 21st century. The present circumstances on the market touched by the crisis require (expected in 2021) the permanent looking for the certainty for the enterprises. One of it is franchising. It concerned the classical closed vertical distribution system, which is managed on contractual basis and one of the system members, named franchisor, connects some levels in the production-distribution chain. His partner is a franchisee. Both partners are searching for the optimal level of correlative relationship. It is a dynamic commercial system, which represents a modern form of cooperation between the enterprises. Franchising is regarded as a progressive marketing strategy. It is one of few forms of entrepreneurship without stagnation in the crisis period, as well.

The aim of this paper is to propose improvements of the selected production process, which would contribute to its optimization and it is oriented on very important topics, which nowadays simulation and optimization surely are. Secondary goals of this paper are oriented on the introduction of simulation software Plant Simulation, because this software is one of the best software on the market and is widely used in practice. Practical application of the software is oriented on the production process of saw blades. Results of this work is the optimization of the production system in concrete conditions, which bring specific improvements in concrete case -increased pieces of final product, better utilization of production time and reduction of storage times to minimum.

The paper deals with the analysis of the assembly process of the selected component. The purpose of the analysis is to identify bottlenecks in the assembly process and to suggest possible improvements to the assembly process. The carburettor of a passenger car was chosen as the object of assembly. By analysing the assembly process, we measure the duration of individual assembly operations. Subsequently, we propose measures to improve and shorten the assembly time for problematic operations. We design and describe the assembly tool that has been tested and evaluated.