Gorky Automobile Plant completed a particularly significant project along with Zyfra and Top Systems

2025

Completion of a critical project covering all stages of the product lifecycle

The Gorky Automobile Plant has completed the industry's first comprehensive digital project, which covers all stages of the product life cycle, from design development to market operation, and is integrated with production. A particularly significant project was implemented with the support of the Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT, part of the VEB Group), which provided a grant in the amount of 379.7 million rubles. The work was carried out in partnership with domestic IT companies - developers of solutions for the digitalization of industry: Top Systems JSC and Zyfra Group of Companies. This was announced on October 6, 2025 by the Zyfra company.

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As reported, students and graduates of technical universities were also involved in the implementation of IT solutions, who study in the Academy IT created on the basis of the car plant and, under the guidance of mentors, participate in promising projects. The project started in 2023, included five stages and covered two areas: Digital Engineering and Digital Production.

As part of the Digital Engineering area, a PLM platform has been introduced, the use of which reduces the time required to develop new models and allows you to manage the life cycle of the product at all stages. On the basis of the platform, requirements for new cars are being developed; management of the production schedule of machines and assembly units; Manage vehicle service data and product marketing data. Enterprise designers now communicate on a single IT platform where all data is visualized in a digital layout of a configurable product. The unified online system also covers the development of all production processes - mechanical processing, heat treatment, metal casting, forging, cold sheet stamping, welding, painting, assembly. As of October 2025, 1,500 specialists of the automobile plant - engineers, designers, technologists, buyers, etc. use the IT platform for the development and preparation of production of new models.

As part of the Digital Manufacturing direction, the MDC Manager and MES Manager modules were introduced at the enterprise, which are used for equipment monitoring, operational planning and production control. The machines were equipped with special sensors that continuously collect information. This allows you to analyze information about the operation of production online. The digital dispatcher records the state of the machines, monitors all telemetry parameters - voltage, power, temperature, vibration, as well as all deviations from the process. Digital workplaces have been created at the production facilities, 780 operators have been trained to work with the system. As a result of the implementation of this project area, the productivity of equipment connected to the system increased by 15%.

For October 2025, plans are being formed to extend the successful experience of the digital project to other enterprises in the automotive industry.

Gorky Automobile Plant creates a digital basis for the further development of the company. All production and business processes are translated into figures. The project, implemented with the support of RFRIT, allows us to solve several tasks at once: data management at all stages of the product life cycle, digitalization of technological preparation of production, monitoring and online control of technological processes. The solutions developed jointly with Tsifa Group of Zyfra and Top Systems JSC are universal and can be scaled up to other automotive enterprises. noted Elena Smirnova, Director of the Center for IT Solutions for Business

The successful completion of the T-FLEX PLM implementation project at the Gorky Automobile Plant is a significant milestone for both the industry and our company. We not only increased the quality of technological preparation of production and created a specialized portal-catalog of spare parts, which takes GAZ's service and logistics to the next level, but also gained invaluable experience. Working with one of the leaders in the automotive industry allowed us to expand the functionality and test T-FLEX PLM in real conditions of high-tech production. This project not only confirmed that Russian PLM solutions are ready to work at modern enterprises, but also allowed us to enrich the complex, strengthening its position as a ready-made solution for industrial giants. emphasized Konstantin Golovkin, Development Director of Top Systems JSC

The completion of the project at the Gorky Automobile Plant is not the final, but the beginning of large-scale changes. Hundreds of auto plant specialists have received a tool that turns data into solutions, optimizes development and makes production transparent. commented Mikhail Aronson, General Director of Zyfra Group of Companies

Complete Phase 3 of Digital Product Lifecycle Management and Manufacturing

The Gorky Automobile Plant has completed the third stage of introducing digital systems for managing the product lifecycle and production. The project is included in the List of particularly significant and is being implemented with the support of the Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT, part of the ВЭБ.РФ group), which provided a grant of 379.7 million rubles for its implementation . The project is included in the roadmap "New Industrial Software," approved by the Government Commission on Digital Development, the use of information technology to improve the quality of life and business conditions. This was announced on January 15, 2025 by the press service of the Zyfra Group of Companies.

As reported, the project is being implemented jointly with leading domestic IT companies - developers of solutions for the digitalization of industry: Top Systems JSC and Zyfra Group of Companies. One of the key areas of the project is the creation of a domestic PLM platform (Product lifecycle management), which reduces the development time of new car models. Software solutions developed by Top Systems JSC together with the IT center of the Gorky Automobile Plant support the concept of creating a digital layout of a car and allow you to manage product data at each stage of its life cycle - development, production and operation in the market.

The transition to an end-to-end PLM platform is designed to combine all the design and technology departments of the enterprise in one information environment in order to optimize design processes, implement engineering changes in production and eliminate risks associated with the use of irrelevant data.

During the project, the company created a competence center for PLM, it employs 25 people: system architect, business analysts, developers. The specialists of Top Systems JSC are responsible for finalizing the basic functionality of the PLM platform, taking into account the peculiarities of automotive production. Enterprise IT professionals - For implementing, configuring, and integrating the PLM platform into the company's IT landscape.

Students of leading technical universities who Nizhny Novgorod study at the Academy, IT opened on the basis of an automobile plant, also joined the work, and under the guidance of mentors take part in the implementation of key and priority business projects. As part of the project, the "" digitization design process with change management, product configurator and the creation of a digital layout of the car has been completed. The model of the Gorky Automobile Plant is integrated into the PLM system, the production of which began in 2024 - all-wheel drive car "Sable NN." The plans are to digitize and load all models of manufactured cars into the system. It will also contain consolidated information on feedback about the product from consumers.

After the completion of the project, the enterprise will create a convenient and transparent data management system and a publicly available electronic service catalog of spare parts, which will be able to use technologists, logicians, buyers, marketers, representatives of the distributor company. Product information will include the full composition of the product. By the VIN number, you can find detailed information about spare parts and a guide to repairing the car.

The processes of monitoring and operational management of production equipment are also integrated into a single digital platform. About 190 pieces of equipment are connected to the online system. Digitalization was carried out on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of production processes conducted by the Directorate for the Development of the GAZ Production System. Together with the Zyfra Group of Companies, the machines were equipped with special sensors, which allows you to transfer and analyze information about the work of production online. The digital dispatcher records the state of the machines in real time, monitors all telemetry parameters - voltage, power, temperature, vibration and notifies the operator of the need for adjustments. This has already made it possible to increase the efficiency of using the fleet of technological equipment by 15%.

At the third stage of the project, the operational internal planning "Dispatcher" was adapted in MES accordance with the requirements of automotive production. The system was deployed in the contour of the Special Equipment Production division - its work is transferred to the level of visual planning and setting tasks in workshops for each piece of equipment. Special attention was paid to improving the quality of analytics, with the BI help of which managers identify problems and choose how to solve them to further strengthen and develop the business.

As part of the project, the digital production management system was integrated with other information systems of the enterprise, which provided an integrated approach to the implementation of digital tools. The operator registers the execution of shift-daily tasks online in the "Manager" system. Based on equipment monitoring statistics, process data on the PLM platform is updated and updated.

As part of the next stage, the functionality of digital development of technical processes, standardization and development of tooling was introduced into commercial operation. PLM transferred the technical processes for assembling cars and producing engines, worked out the processes of welding and painting. As of January 2025, specialists are working on the digitalization of auto-component production processes: casting metal, plastics, forging, sheet stamping. The work is scheduled to be completed by June 2025.

The implementation of the project will reduce the time for the development of new products, the technological preparation of its production and launch on the market, as well as optimize the efficiency of the use of industrial equipment. It is important that thanks to the support of RFRIT, domestic IT solutions are being introduced at our production facilities, which allow us to fully replace. import software noted Elena Smirnova, Director of the Center for IT Solutions for Business

In 2023 and 2024, we carried out large-scale work that made it possible to customize the receipt of operational information about production and provide visual in-house planning of tasks. About 1000 employees of the enterprise use the system in their daily work, and the number of digitized technological operations exceeds 10,000. In 2025, digital innovations are planned to be replicated to other sites of the enterprise. An important component of the project is an integrated approach, which is implemented by integrating equipment monitoring and production management systems with PLM and ERP systems. This approach provides end-to-end automation of production processes and the accumulation of quality data for the transition to enterprise management using AI tools in the following projects. noted Mikhail Aronson, General Director of Zyfra Group of Companies

In 2024, Top Systems continued to optimize the T-T-FLEX PLM platform and its components for automotive tasks. The tools of the T-FLEX PLM complex involved in the technological preparation of production, as well as the platform components necessary for the visual presentation of the catalog of components and spare parts of the car, have undergone significant refinement. It is important to note the systematic approach to work among the specialists of the IT center of the Gorky Automobile Plant, who solve the most important task of adapting T-FLEX PLM solutions for the tasks of the automotive industry on the project. told Konstantin Golovkin, Development Director of Top Systems JSC

Digital projects of the Gorky Automobile Plant are among the particularly significant projects of the Industrial Competence Center "Automotive," contributing to the development and import substitution of the domestic IT landscape.

2024: Completion of the second phase of the implementation of the digital production management system

Gorky Automobile Plant has completed the second stage of introducing a digital production management system. This figure was reported on June 2, 2024.

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The project includes the introduction of a digital platform for monitoring production equipment and process control. As part of the project, all numerical control machines at four key sites of the automobile plant for the production of cars and auto components are combined into a single digital system. This allows real-time analysis of production performance information.

In June 2024, the implementation of the second stage was completed - the equipment monitoring system was put into operation at four sites of the automobile plant, "MDC Manager" testing of the Dispatcher operational internal planning system was completed at the pilot site. MES The machines have been equipped with special sensors that are monitored by the operator from electronic, tablet which allows you to transmit and analyze information production information online.

177 pieces of equipment are connected to monitoring: processing centers, robotic complexes, conveyor lines, turning and milling machines, lasers.

The increase in equipment productivity after the implementation of the project amounted to 15%.

2023

Completing the First Phase of the Manager Implementation

The Gorky Automobile Plant, together with the Zyfra Group of Companies, completed the first stage of the project to implement the Dispatcher complex at the pilot site of the Nizhny Novgorod Motors enterprise (it specializes in the production of gearboxes for the model line). The Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT) announced this on October 20, 2023.

At the server GAZ facilities, the specialists of the Tsifa Group of Zyfra deployed the Dispatcher industrial equipment monitoring system, as well as the Manufacturing MES Execution System, an independent product included in the Dispatcher complex. Software solutions allow you to manage production on a data real-time basis: assess free capacity and effectively redistribute equipment utilization, help you identify problems in a timely manner and make the necessary management decisions. Thanks to the system, company managers receive objective data on the operation of machine tools and can quickly manage it.

At the next stages, it is planned to adapt the "MES Dispatcher" to other GAZ production facilities. This system, as well as the "MDC Manager" (Machine Data Collection) - a system for monitoring industrial equipment that performs continuous data collection, is planned to be gradually implemented at 8 production sites. In total, 190 units of a wide variety of equipment will be connected to the Dispatcher: processing centers, robotic complexes, conveyors, lasers, turning and milling machines. According to the experience of the implementation of the complex, it is possible to predict an increase in the real load of equipment connected to the system up to 15%.

For the first time in the automotive industry, the MES Dispatcher module will be used to implement end-to-end automation of production processes - from operational planning of production activities and dispatching of production work to monitoring the state of production operations at workplaces, - said Sergey Emelchenkov, General Director of Zyfra Group of Companies.

This work is carried out within the framework of the project of the Gorky Automobile Plant to create an integrated system for managing the product lifecycle and technological processes. The total investment in the project is 513 million rubles, of which 379.7 million rubles. is a grant from the Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT).

The implementation of the project will create IT solutions that can be scaled up to domestic automotive enterprises as an alternative to the solutions of Western companies. The result of the project will be a reduction in the time for the development and launch of new products on the market, an increase in the efficiency of production processes. The developed solution is planned to be gradually put into commercial operation at GAZ enterprises in 2025, - explained Elena Smirnova, director of the Center for IT Solutions for Business.

The project, implemented with the support of RFRIT, is included in the list of especially significant and included in the roadmap "New Industrial Software," approved by the Government Commission for Digital Development, the use of information technologies to improve the quality of life and business conditions.

We see a special perspective in projects that combine industry expertise industries and competencies IT-. industries As a result of their implementation, IT solutions will work not only for local tasks of a specific enterprise, but also be replicated according to the industry principle, - said the General Director of RFRIT. Alexander Pavlov

Implementation of "Dispatcher" industrial equipment and personnel monitoring system

Gorky Automobile Plant, Russian producer commercial, cars began the implementation IT of the project using the software solution for industrial production control "" Dispatcher from GC "." Zyfra Technology It is aimed at increasing the efficiency of processes due to the introduction of digital control of production and at analysts all its stages. The system will significantly reduce time the receipt information of about efficiency factors and about the actual execution of tasks from several hours to several minutes.

The project is being implemented with support. Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT) The total amount of the grant, part of which will be used to develop the solutions of the Zyfra Group of Companies in accordance with the specifics, automobile building industries is 379.7 million - rubles this is more than 70% of the total budget of 513 million rubles for the project "Elimination of gaps, completeness data of the product at various stages of the life cycle and the introduction of a system for monitoring production equipment at GAZ production sites."

The project is scheduled to be completed in 2025.

The project will allow the introduction of digital solutions that will become an alternative to the products of Western companies, as well as increase the efficiency of processes by introducing digital production control. Subsequently, these solutions can be scaled to other enterprises in the automotive industry.

The main goals are to increase the efficiency of the use of industrial equipment, the work of production personnel and to create tools for accounting for orders, to assess the rhythm of production and production of products on time, in the required amount and of appropriate quality.

The "Dispatcher" complex closes these needs, since its implementation makes it possible to further improve the following processes:

• Time and attendance;
• Increase the efficiency of equipment utilization by analyzing production chains
• increased efficiency of production organization as a result of prompt decision-making;
• optimization of the production process through centralized storage and transfer of control programs for equipment to machines;
• increased efficiency of evaluation of operation of the entire fleet of CNC machines;
• reduction of production costs due to improvement of equipment operation quality.

The project provides for the launch of two classes of Manager products - MDC and MES. The first is used to monitor industrial equipment and production analytics and continuously collect data. The MES Dispatcher is an operational planning and production control system at the shop level. The technology helps to identify problems in real time and make the necessary management decisions.

The peculiarity of the project consists in the possibility of combining a large fleet of various equipment within one system, such as turning, milling machines, machining centers, lasers, pipe benches, conveyors, etc. At the same time, for the Digital Group of Zyfra, it is of particular interest, as it contributes to the development of the MES Dispatcher functionality in accordance with the needs of the automotive industry.

The GAZ project is based on the extensive experience of GAZ engineering and IT divisions in creating competitive products and digitalizing engineering and production processes. The solution developed as part of the project is planned to be put into commercial operation at enterprises in 2025. In addition to creating the possibility of working on domestic IT solutions, the result of the project will be a reduction in the development time, technological preparation of production and launch of other products on the market, an increase in the efficiency of using production equipment at automotive enterprises, noted the head of the Center for Information Technologies of GAZ Elena Smirnova.

The introduction of Russian digital solutions at GAZ enterprises is caused by the urgent need for import substitution and increased production efficiency due to digital transformation, which is rapidly gaining momentum. The development of the Dispatcher for the needs of the automotive industry, envisaged within the framework of the project, will contribute to the further improvement of Russian digital products for industry, their adaptation to the needs of specific industries, told the general director of the GC "Figure " Sergey Emelchenkov.