On September 20-22nd, there was participation in the traditional international scientific and practical conference "TUBES-2016" organized by RosNITI and FDPIR supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs on technical regulation, standardization and conformity assessment. The main sponsors of the conference were the leading Russian companies: PMC, AMC and CTRP. The German company "SMS group» was a sponsor of the meeting. Information support was provided by specialized scientific, technical and practical journals and publishers. Representatives of oil and gas, chemical, metallurgical, scientific, educational and other industries of the Russian industry took an active part in the conference.