V knige rassmotreny teoreticheskie polozheniya i prakticheskie aspekty avtomatizirovannogo proektirovaniya odnokovshovykh ekskavatorov. Otrazheny razlichnye ierarkhicheskie urovni proektirovaniya rabochego oborudovaniya ekskavatorov s primeneniem informatsionnykh tekhnologiy. Rassmotreny metodologicheskie podkhody k proektirovaniyu privodov, konstruktsiy i rabochikh protsessov na osnove sinteza matematicheskikh modeley fizicheski neodnorodnykh sistem, strukturno-komponovochnykh modeley mashiny i modeley effektivnosti v edinoy komp"yuternoy srede. Prednaznacheno dlya razrabotchikov novykh vidov smennogo rabochego oborudovaniya i rabochikh organov odnokovshovykh ekskavatorov. Takzhe budet polezna aspirantam i inzhenerno-tekhnicheskim rabotnikam v oblasti proektirovaniya i rascheta transportnykh i tekhnologicheskikh mashin i studentam vuzov, obuchayushchikhsya po napravleniyu podgotovki bakalavrov i magistrov "Nazemnye transportnye sistemy".