New aspects of the development of Kantorovich’s one-product dynamic model of replacement of production funds

In the context of the development of scientific and technological progress and the growth of the capital stock, an important task is modeling and optimization of the terms of operation of production funds. The development of technologies and automation of production lead to a reduction in the workforce employed in production. In the article, for the previously developed single-product dynamic model of the replacement of production assets, taking into account the inertial properties of the funds being introduced, the case of a reduction in labor resources under the condition of an increase in output and capital investment is investigated. A solution was obtained that allows to determine the optimal strategy for the withdrawal of obsolete funds and the introduction of the new ones in case of decrease in labor resources. As the optimization criterion the principle of differential optimization is used. The theorem of equivalence of a trajectory satisfying the principle of differential optimization, the obtained solution is given. A system of functional differential equations is presented, which should be satisfied by variable models both in terms of growth and reduction of labor resources. Numerical methods are used to solve such a system. The variants of the system development are considered under various assumptions regarding changes in the total amount of labor resources. The results of numerical implementation of the model are presented.