When transferring the research activities of universities to a new system of management and self-financing, the results of research and development are sold as scientific and technological products (STP) and the fact of their realization, being unconditional and indisputable, requires the development of classification of STP on its readiness for this realization (implementation).

Leningrad Mining Institute together with the Institute Gipronickel is conducting research work aimed at finding ways to automate the most labor-intensive calculations in the prospective planning of development and location of sub-branches of non-ferrous metallurgy.

The problem of waste utilization is crucial for the development of waste-free production.

The efficiency of the use of fixed production assets is characterized by the ratio of the growth rate of output and fixed assets, as well as such indicators as fund yield, fund armament, fund intensity and labor productivity.

The efficiency of the use of fixed production assets is one of the most important conditions for increasing the profitability of the enterprise. Reveal the reserves for improving the efficiency of the use of fixed production assets helps comparative analysis of fund yield, which makes it possible to determine the factors that change the fund yield in the period under consideration ...

The cost of production is one of the most important generalizing indicators of the industrial enterprise, as it reflects all aspects of its production and economic activities: the economical use of material and labor resources, improving machinery, technology, organization of production and labor, improving the level of production management ...