TY - JOUR N2 - The paper presents the technology and organization of the artistic cast production. On the basis of the actual cast production system, the manufacturing process was shown, in particular sand–piece moulding, which is a very important process and a time-consuming part of the entire manufacture of the casts. The current state of the production process as well as the organization of the work and production technology were analysed with the use of methods and techniques of production improvement, the Lean Manufacturing concept and computer systems. The results of the analysis and studies were shown with use of schemes and graphs of the layout of the production resources, a flow chart of the production process, value stream mapping, and a costs table for the production and modernization of the moulding stage. The work has shown that there are possibilities to improve the artistic cast production system. This improvement leads to increased productivity, lower production costs of artistic casts and increased competitiveness of the foundry. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/102064/PDF/afe-2017-0107.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/102064 PY - 2017 IS - No 3 DO - 10.1515/afe-2017-0107 KW - Artistic casting KW - Sand-piece moulding KW - Improvement KW - lean manufacturing A1 - Władysiak, R. A1 - Pacyniak, T. A1 - Trzoska, J. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 17 DA - 2017 T1 - Improvement of Artistic Cast Production System UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/102064 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -