TY - JOUR N2 - The article presents issues related to creating and realizing added value by logistic processes and processing in a casting enterprise. It discusses possibilities of improving systems of casts production by evaluating labour intensity of casts manufacture and analyzing manufacturing prime costs. Operations with added value, processes indirectly creating added value and operations without added value have been specified. The problem was presented on the example of materials flow design in a foundry, where casts are manufactured in expendable moulds and using automated foundry lines. On the basis of the Pareto analysis, a group of casts was specified whose manufacture significantly influences the functioning of the whole enterprise. Finishing treatment operations have been particularly underlined, as they are performed away from the line and are among the most labour-consuming processes during casts production. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/87522/PDF/11_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/87522 PY - 2013 IS - No 3 DO - 10.2478/afe-2013-0059 KW - Application of Information Technology to the Foundry Industry KW - Transport systems in foundry KW - Logistics of material flow KW - Workergonomics KW - Production Systems Rationalisation A1 - Kukla, S. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 2013 T1 - Logistics of Materials Flow in an Iron Foundry UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/87522 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -