Information technologies and systems in production engineering: introduction, significance, basic means, information resources, design and implementation in production systems and machining processes. Theory of data bases: basic concepts, data organization, data structure, design and life cycle of data base, systems for data bases management, types and architecture of data bases. Data base of machining parameters: production technologies and processes of material machining, strategy and concept of designing cutting parameters data bases. Information systems for data acquisition: monitoring and management machining process, type and preparation of signal, type and choice of acquisition system, concept of systems for data acquisition in production processes. Knowledge base and knowledge implementation: intelligent production system, neural networks, expert systems, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms.