Relevance In the practice of designing and developing high-tech types of equipment for electrical complexes, it often becomes necessary to conduct tests in the absence of access to existing equipment, for example, due to the specifics of oil production facilities. To assess energy efficiency, study diagnostic problems, and develop the functions of control stations for sucker-rod pumping units, it is advisable to use laboratory test benches allowing to perform these works in stationary conditions and significantly reduce the cost of their implementation. Aim of Research Development of a test bench for the study of dynamic processes in electric drives of sucker-rod pumping units for oil production. Research methods The following methods were used: mathematical and computer modeling, including real-time modeling; physical modeling based on a test bench. Results A test bench has been developed that, with a given scale, implements the electromechanical processes occurring in the electric drive of a sucker-rod pumping unit; the use of experimental power diagrams as training sets for diagnostic problems by machine learning is proposed; the possibility of creating and debugging control systems for the technological process of oil production on a test bench was demonstrated. Keywords: test bench, sucker rod pumping unit, load simulation, electric drive, oil production.