The aim of the study is the process of distributing production tasks between individual units of the processing equipment in the enterprise’s technological system. In the conditions of multi-product manufacturing, it is important to reduce the time for its technological preparation, which is quite frequent. Rational loading of individual processing equipment can achieve a significant reduction in time, i.e. by increasing its load factor. The load factor of the processing equipment depends on a number of factors, in particular on the rational distribution of production tasks not only by workplaces, but also in time. The search for a rational sequence of starting production tasks is complex, including the generation of various combinations of starting individual production tasks and the time sequence of beginning their implementation. Developing a mathematical model solves the problem that allows predicting in advance the result of implementing a set of generated options. As a basic option, the authors propose a simulation model of a technological system, allowing imitating the generated options and, based on a comparison of the obtained results, selecting the best solutions at various stages of the technological system operation. The novelty of the obtained solution is information support, allowing increasing the adequacy degree of the mathematical model to the real object. Because of the conducted modelling, the paper obtains the data that make it possible to build a strategy for launching production tasks in the technological system. The authors get a tool, using which it is possible to identify a rational version of the production planning strategy with minimal resource costs and in the shortest possible time. The paper notes that in almost all cases an iterative approach is necessary when working with the model. The depth of the forecast determines the degree of the result reliability. The obtained approach is useful at the stage of drawing up business plans for a machine-building enterprise.
