Competitiveness of products, equipment and of technological processes in mechanical engineering

Abstract

In the times of crisis, the competitive edge of a claimed produce acquires a special value. The paper considers the structure of competitiveness as a unity of quality, expenditure, profit and prices. It describes a method of forming competitiveness exemplifying, at the same time, an erroneous interpretation of competitiveness and methods of its “rapid determination”. To analyze and synthesize an integral level of competitiveness, one may use the SADT-method of detailed step-by-step hierarchy of the objects under study. In this connection one can profit from the experience of the huge China and small Switzerland successfully reorganizing productions, diminishing concomi-tant costs, reducing release prices, combating corruption, creating favorable conditions for produc-tion and business.