The article proposes an analysis of the development of combined electrophysical methods of hardening machine parts and tools based on the use of radiation (laser, electro-beam, ultrasonic, etc.) processing and electromagnetic fields. It is shown that the current and promising direction in improving the performance of the contact surface layers of machine parts, creating high-performance coatings (as well as technologies for their application) with high physical and mechanical properties of responsible parts is the combination of high-energy (laser, electronic, etc.) radiation and electromagnetic fields as a technological factor, as well as other sources of technological energy, which are advanced electrophysical methods of forming working surfaces of mechanical parts of mechanical and mechanical components.
