Digital Manufacturing: How a Smart Factory Works

This presentation video is devoted to a complex but highly relevant topic: the digital transformation of industry. It is about a Russian integration platform that brings together the key subsystems of production management, from planning (MES) and process engineering (CAPP) to equipment monitoring with IIoT solutions. These concepts seem terribly complicated and confusing, but graphics and animation are exactly what makes them accessible and understandable. Now that the largest foreign vendors have stopped supporting their products, it is especially important to create and promote domestic solutions. The 3D video not only describes the structure and capabilities of the platform but also emphasizes the importance of import substitution and technological sovereignty. We set out to show that modern industrial software is not a set of abstract modules but real tools that can improve efficiency, transparency and control in production. The main visual tool in this project was motion graphics—dynamic, structured and logically built. They make it possible to draw associative parallels and to visualize data flows, digital processes and the interaction of different subsystems. Thanks to this approach, the presentation video turned out not only technically accurate but also engaging: it helps the viewer really understand how modern digital manufacturing works.