As practice has shown, enterprises that receive high profits achieve this by reducing costs, rather than increasing the price of products. The national project "Labor Productivity and Employment Support" defines one of the directions for achieving high labor productivity and product competitiveness as training in lean production tools. The article discusses the applied methods of lean production on the example of an architectural and artistic casting enterprise, and also shows the main indicators for evaluating the efficiency of using production capacities.

Keywords: efficiency of equipment operation, ITS index, lean manufacturing methods, Pareto analysis