摘要 : This paper proposes to assess the potential of industrial enterprises using Harrington's desirability function. The approaches to defining the essence and components of potential have been generalized. It is systematized the indic... 展开 This paper proposes to assess the potential of industrial enterprises using Harrington's desirability function. The approaches to defining the essence and components of potential have been generalized. It is systematized the indicators, which determine the potential of the industrial enterprise. A scientific and methodological approach to evaluating the level of potential based on the generalized Harrington's criterion has been proposed, which allows generalizing various criteria and factors that determine the potential of the enterprise, convert them into a dimensionless scale and calculate the criterion of desirability - the level of potential. The gradation of values of the desirability function depending on the values of the function has been proposed. The potential of machine-building enterprises has been assessed according to the proposed method. The results of the study allow a more comprehensive and thorough assessment of the level of potential of the enterprise and identification of areas for its growth. 收起