Dynamic development of the Russian market of timber products and tightening of technological advantages give particular relevance to the use of advanced technological methods to optimize the production process. It will lead to an increase in the competitiveness of enterprises. Improvement of approaches to managing the technological development of enterprises, their provision with various types of innovative resources and technologies for the optimal use of all reserves of industrial enterprises is of particular importance in the context of the formation of effective areas of production system technological development. The following should be noted in terms of the development of woodworking equipment production. 23 factories produced 30–35 thousand woodworking machines and lines per year in the Russian Federation in the early 1990s. Currently, according to Rosstat, only 4–6 thousand units of woodworking equipment are manufactured. Machine-tool enterprises sharply reduced output or ceased to exist since most of domestic woodworking machines turned out to be uncompetitive in comparison with the equipment of leading foreign companies. In recent years, there has been an increase in the tendency to reduce the relative share of consumption of domestic woodworking equipment on the Russian market. Share of domestic equipment decreased from 29 % to 7 % according to expert estimates in the period from 2000 to 2017. Accordingly, imported equipment makes more than 91 % on the market. The article has reviewed and analyzed furniture enterprises of timber industry complex connected with woodworking process.