More than 30 scientific and technical seminars on the quality of machine-building products and other sectors of the national economy were held only last year only last year only last year. Enterprises provide significant methodological assistance in the introduction of state and industry standards, new standardization systems, in the conduct of state certification of products. The regional House of NTO technology, together with the Sverdlovsk Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Propaganda, regularly organize conferences, seminars, lecture cycles for enterprise specialists, design organizations, which discusses the issues of improving standards and improving quality, on the application of a unified system of technical documentation, and on implementing progressive technological processes affecting the improvement of product quality. Here there is an exchange of advanced experience accumulated at the enterprises of the region. A serious contribution to the improvement of the manufactured machines and equipment was the distribution of the initiative of the head of the design bureau Uralmash, Honored inventor of the RSFSR Tov. NISKOVSKY about the preparation of each engineering and technical worker of a personal creative plan of scientific and technological progress on a five-year plan. This initiative was supported by more than 50 thousand. engineering and technical workers of enterprises, research, design organizations of the region. The measures of personal creative plans of ITR provides for an increase in the technical and economic level of manufactured machines, the reconstruction of existing units.