V monografii raskryty aktual'nye zadachi, svyazannye s optimizatsiey proektirovaniya elektromekhanicheskogo privoda obshchego naznacheniya. Vybor kinematicheskoy skhemy mekhanicheskikh peredach elektroprivoda zavisit ot mnogikh prichin, kak to: oblast' primeneniya, trebovaniya k gabaritnym i vesovym kharakteristikam ustroystva, vozmozhnosti izgotovleniya na konkretnom proizvodstve, stoimosti komplektuyushchikh i t.d. V dannoy rabote rassmatrivayutsya voprosy vybora kinematicheskoy skhemy mekhanicheskikh peredach elektroprivoda s tochki zreniya rekomenduemykh peredatochnykh chisel dlya zubchatykh i chervyachnykh peredach;vybor takogo raspolozheniya zubchatykh koles na valakh, kotoryy by sposobstvoval nadezhnoy i dolgovechnoy rabote peredatochnogo mekhanizma. Rassmotreny voprosy opredeleniya nagruzki mekhanizmov v tipovykh sluchayakh, opredeleniya koeffitsienta poleznogo deystviya kinematicheskoy skhemy. Priveden primer optimizatsionnykh raschetov pri vybore naibolee ekonomichnoy kinematicheskoy skhemy mekhanizma pod"emnika. Monografiya prednaznachena dlya bakalavrov mashinostroitel'nykh (tekhnicheskikh) napravleniy vuzov. Kniga takzhe mozhet byt' polezna inzhenerno-tekhnicheskim rabotnikam.