Creating a competitive enterprise is the process of achieving market leadership at least in one important aspect of industrial activity. This requires a clear definition and effective use of the competitive advantages that would achieve this goal and to which attention should be paid first. Real opportunities to improve competitiveness are factors in the internal environment. The central idea is the concept of enterprise as a total of resources, which are used to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The analysis of the situation at enterprises of mechanical engineering shows that the factors that reduce competitiveness often are: outdated equipment and technology, lack of qualified personnel, lack of rational organization of production. It should be noted that the specificity of engineering production does not allow companies to achieve high industry's competitive position in the absence of sufficient organizational and technical level, since the production of technically sophisticated products of high quality and competitiveness with low-level technology and organization of production is not possible. Since most of these factors form the organizational and technical level of production, then, in our opinion, it is the main source of competitive advantages of machine-building enterprises. With funding deficit, improving organizational and technical level is a priority of the engineering enterprise aimed at obtaining competitive advantage of high order, and competitiveness of the enterprise in general. Understanding the special value of high organizational and technical level to ensure the competitiveness of the company allows orienting ones choice to a strategy for further development, which will be aimed at improving the strategically most important, in terms of achieving certain competitive advantages, factors of organizational and technical level. At the same time at the stage of choosing the path of strategic business development it is necessary to analyse the current state of the external and internal factors and determine the influence of individual indicators of organizational and technical level of the final (integral) indicator of competitiveness. This factor analysis determines the aspects of the organizational and technical level of enterprises, which have the greatest impact on competitiveness as a whole, i.e. they are the source of the most significant competitive advantage. This approach makes it possible to orient their choices to the optimal strategy for further development of the company, which will be aimed at improving the most strategically important, in terms of achieving certain competitive advantages, factors of organizational and technical level. This allows the enterprise to achieve the intended purpose, not wasting money.

Рассматриваются проблемы поиска методов комплексного анализа, оценки и формирования необходимого организационно-технического уровня машиностроительного предприятия, вопросы влияния организационно-технического уровня на получение конкурентных преимуществ высокого порядка, его целевая ориентация на критерии конкурентоспособности и вопрособеспечения конкурентоспособности предприятия в целом.