Tools of the assessment of modernization processes at the enterprises of agricultural mechanical engineering in the Southern federal district

This article analyzes the current state of the agricultural machinery industry in the South of Russia. It is shown that in the current economic conditions the technological modernization of the industry is required, which will improve the competitiveness of domestic production in the domestic and foreign markets. To analyze the processes of modernization in the agricultural machinery the tools were designed including: typology of modernization projects that allows you to select projects that are the goals of the competitive import substitution; indicators to assess the level of the activity of the enterprises in relation to the implementation of modernization projects; matrix of modernization development of the region. For the solution of problem of import competition due to the direction of modernization the following classification features of modernization processes were proposed: according to the purpose of the import substitution projects to the duration, to the scale, to the nature of change in the industrial activity, to the degree of modernization of production, to the degree of coverage of import substitution products of the production process...