The machine system as a factor of scientific and technological progress in agro-industrial complex

The article proposes a principle for forming a machine system using the object-process approach to modeling technical systems as a methodology of systems engineering. It has been shown that the central concept of a machine system is scientific and technological progress (STP): a machine system should simultaneously promote progress in the agro-industrial complex (AIC) and reflect it. The article presents a definition of a machine system, its functions, main goal, architecture, stakeholders, and external environment. A machine system is positioned as a mixed system that combines conceptual, substantive, and physical components. The conceptual part is an information product – the machine system itself, presented in the form of a computer program, website, standards, databases, on paper, etc. The physical component is a group of experts in developing a machine system. It has been shown that in a market economy, a machine system should be built not on the basis of specific brands and models of technical means, but on the basis of their types. A definition of the type was proposed based on the division of technical means characteristics into functional and non-functional. To substantiate the machine types, an approximate list of types of non-functional characteristics of agricultural machinery was formed. Diagrams of the architecture of the machine system and the development of types of agricultural machines were constructed. The architecture of the machine system is a combination of the structure of the machine system and the activities of experts in the development of the machine system, which ensures the performance of the machine system of its functions, the main ones being the systematization of agricultural machines and technologies and the formation of ideas among interested parties about the state and directions of scientific and technological progress in the agro-industrial complex.