Multi-agent systems are usefully employed in banking sector, logistics and military commitments. In machine-building industry the trend line is implementation of digital productions and Internet of Things concepts. In our opinion combine of digital production and multi-agent systems gives the opportunity of production control improvement. In this paper we propose the approach to the organization of a production multi-agent system based on the service-oriented architecture. The agent's

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... is considered, services are separated and communication between them is defined. As the means of communication we propose the XML manifest that provides an opportunity to informational support of interaction between agents and services. The results of this work are relevant to building of a multi-agent system for production control in machine-building industry.