The name is an initialism for Central Scientific - Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering (Центральный научно-исследовательский институт точного машиностроения).

[2] Development and production of various types of small arms and ammunition, military equipment, mortar and artillery systems, optoelectronic devices, sports and hunting ammunition, sealed containers for transportation and storage, simulators of small arms.

The Institute has developed control equipment for the first domestic portable and portable-mounted anti-tank complexes "Fagot", "Konkurs".

The technical solutions found by the Institute are the basis for the control equipment of the anti-tank complexes "Metis" and others.

The Institute is a developer, manufacturer and holder of patents for ground-based control equipment of an effective modern anti-tank complex "Kornet".