SYNERGETIC EFFECT FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF «LEAN PRODUCTION» AND «INDUSTRY 4.0» FOR ENTERPRISES IN THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

Abstract the philosophy of lean production, which consists of optimizing production processes, eliminating losses, improving the quality of goods and services, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement, is extremely relevant today. Also, this concept is very consonant with the latest industrial revolution — Industry 4.0 (or the Fourth Industrial Revolution), which aims to make the transition from conventional automation of production, the use of information technology in production (which were the essence of the third industrial revolution) to the network of resources, information flows, objects and people. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between lean production paradigms and Industry 4.0. Both concepts with their tools were analyzed, their influence on each other was discovered and the possibility of integrating lean production methods with technologies of Industry 4.0 was considered on the basis of enterprises of the transport industry. This article proposes to consider the concepts of «Lean Production» and «Industry 4.0» as separate areas of enterprise development, describing its advantages and disadvantages, and the search for empirical evidence of the relationship between them. The tools and methods of the concepts of Lean Production and Industry 4.0 are investigated and compared to find the main similar and different technological characteristics. The compatibility of concepts due to the similarity of goals and principles of paradigms is considered, in particular, efficient use of resources and minimization of losses, continuous improvement, and use of technologies to automate processes. The possibility of combining the advantages of each concept to create a common flexible system to increase the efficiency of transport enterprises and the transport industry as a whole was assessed.