In several "bottleneck" incidents in the past year, industrial software and chips have simultaneously hit the "soft" and "hard" swords made in China. The pain of chips is shifting from design to manufacturing.
Industrial software is one of the industries with the largest gap between China and developed Western countries, and it is also the biggest weakness in China's transition from a "manufacturing powerhouse" to a "manufacturing powerhouse", with its impact increasingly prominent.
In the independent development of industrial software, more and more Chinese enterprises are beginning to demonstrate their strength. The latest annual report of listed company SiE Information shows that the company's sales scale in the intelligent manufacturing field increased by 149.6% in the fiscal year 2020, with significant growth in the industrial management software field, beginning to emerge in the industry.
1. The Rise of China's Power in Industrial Management Software
In the software industry, industrial software accounts for a relatively small proportion, so Chinese industrial software companies that started almost simultaneously with Western countries either give up due to a small market or slow progress due to low investment and talent shortage.
Industrial software is known as the brain and nerves of industrial manufacturing, and can be called the "crown" of the industrial field. With the emergence of the "bottleneck" phenomenon, we suddenly realize that there is a huge "gap" between domestic software and foreign leaders in the field of high-end industrial software.
Global industrial software giants are all born in industrial manufacturing powers. From a global perspective, industrial manufacturing powers are mainly distributed in Europe and America, including the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia, as well as Japan and South Korea in the Asia Pacific region.
In addition to management software, China, a major industrial country, has not yet emerged as a giant enterprise that can rival developed countries in terms of enterprise valuation, market sales scale, market share, technological leadership, platform maturity, and ecological integrity in industrial software.
On the one hand, industrial software is a necessary foundation and indispensable for promoting intelligent manufacturing; On the other hand, industrial technology has a long development cycle and high investment, making it difficult for industrial software to achieve breakthroughs with short-term explosive power.
This is also the main reason why China's manufacturing industry is large but not strong, and it is also a key core issue that urgently needs to be solved when China's manufacturing is moving towards intelligent manufacturing.
At present, developing independently controllable industrial software has become a "national policy".
As early as February this year, industrial software was selected for the first time as one of the first batch of key projects in the National Key R&D Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, marking that industrial software has become the highest level strategic deployment in the national science and technology field.
According to the "2021 Project Application Guidelines and Suggestions for the Key Special Project of the National Key R&D Plan" Industrial Software "released by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Draft for Soliciting Opinions), 2021 will focus on four technical directions: manufacturing digital ecology and basic cutting-edge technology, product lifecycle core software, intelligent factory technology and systems, and industrial collaborative technology and platforms.
At the same time, the national key research and development plan focuses on independent innovation, emphasizing the role of enterprises as the main body, with sufficient content and strong support.
After years of crawling forward, China's industrial software has begun to rise, and SiE Information is one of them.
At present, SiE Information's industrial management software has the strength to compete with imported software and has also been recognized by many leading enterprises.
2. SiE Information actively lays out industrial management software
SiE Information has been carrying the gene to develop industrial management software since its inception. The founding team of the company was one of the earliest in China to implement ERP and provide services in enterprises, as well as one of the earliest foreign industrial software agents and implementers. On this basis, after years of development, I am particularly familiar with the needs of enterprises, especially Chinese manufacturing enterprises, for industrial software.
In the process of enterprise development, SiE Information keenly discovered that with the rapid rise of the Chinese economy, the demand for industrial management software continues to grow. To achieve sustainable development, enterprises must reduce costs and increase efficiency, and scientific and systematic management is fundamental.
Firstly, the development of SiE Information Industry Management Software is based on the digital transformation of enterprises, adhering to independent research and development of industrial management software to serve the digitalization of enterprise business and management.
In the process of development and growth, in addition to the ERP consulting and implementation services at the beginning of its establishment and the agency implementation of top foreign industrial management software, SiE Information has been closely following the latest technological development and domestic enterprise application and scenario requirements, vigorously promoting independent research and development of industrial software, and developing a batch of industrial management software products that are more suitable for manufacturing in China.
At the same time, the development of SiE Information Industry Management Software is closely related to the company's digital transformation goals. By providing digital transformation services for over 20 industries and over 1000 enterprises in China, SiE Information has gained a better understanding of the segmented scenarios and application requirements of Chinese enterprise industrial management software, achieving its mission and positioning as a practitioner of industrial management software.
Secondly, in the process of serving domestic enterprises, rich digital application scenarios and product solutions have been accumulated and precipitated, and a complete set of core industrial management software and systems required for manufacturing management have been independently developed.
These products have the characteristics of localization, strong integration, and customizable implementation. They have strong scalability and are highly compatible with the actual production scenarios of local enterprises. They have taken the lead in achieving domestic substitutability in domestic enterprise applications.
Thirdly, as a practitioner of domestic industrial management software, SiE Information has been focusing on and serving 23 key industries such as communication, electronics, home appliances, mechanical equipment, home furnishings, petrochemicals, and fast moving consumer goods for 16 years, especially in the early consultation and later solution provision and application implementation of digitalization in the industrial manufacturing industry. It has already gained a large number of users and successful application projects.
At the same time, SiE Information has formed a competitive advantage of "platform provider+application developer+massive customer+operation provider" through various forms such as intelligent machines, cloud platforms, and industrial apps.
At present, SiE Information has accumulated over 1000 industry benchmark customer enterprises such as Huawei, Midea, Country Garden, Libai, and Oupai Home, and has received recognition and praise
3. Industrial management software products are emerging and serving Chinese manufacturing
In the field of industrial management software, SiE Information has independently developed eight major industrial management software products and industrial management software suite SMOM, including SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), Production Planning and Scheduling (SAPS), Manufacturing Process Management (SMES), Warehouse Management (SWMS), Quality Management (SQMS), Equipment Operations Management (SEDO), in combination with the process specifications and actual needs of domestic discrete manufacturing industries Equipment Integration (SMDC), Production of Digital Intelligent Operations (SMI), etc.
SiE Information has been deeply understanding the landing applications and latest explorations of different needs in the industrial manufacturing industry, providing products and solution packages to 23 industries and 11 business lines. It has accumulated and accumulated rich digital application scenarios and product solutions in industries such as home appliances, home furnishings, and mechanical equipment, and has also received a large number of successful customer cases.
To spy on the leopard. The newly launched SEIS (SiE MOM Electronic Industry Suite) by SiE Information aims to solve the production and operation management problems faced by enterprises, aiming to create an overall solution for intelligent manufacturing in the electronic manufacturing industry. From lean production to operation management, it comprehensively supports the product manufacturing and innovation upgrading of electronic manufacturing enterprises, and accelerates the pace of industry digital transformation.
Firstly, the Electronic Industry Suite SEIS focuses on cultivating new models of intelligent manufacturing in the electronic manufacturing industry, focusing on various entities and resources in the electronic industry chain, in accordance with the action guidelines of "meeting new demands, configuring new elements, forming new supplies, and achieving new balance".
Secondly, SEIS is led by the concept of real-time collaborative management, with dynamic scheduling as the core, and the overall goal of closed-loop management covering the entire lifecycle of manufacturing enterprises from order receipt to delivery. By addressing the pain points and problems of manufacturing management in electronic enterprises, as well as controlling and managing the main links of the business process, SEIS improves production equipment and personnel efficiency, reduces logistics costs, and improves product process quality, Improve the level of business management.
Thirdly, SEIS covers the entire lifecycle of the electronic manufacturing industry, integrating the advantages of SiE's eight major industrial management software products, including advanced planning and scheduling SAPS, to help enterprises achieve refined production plan management; Comprehensive quality traceability helps enterprises build forward and reverse comprehensive traceability capabilities; Comprehensive error prevention mechanism in the electronics industry; By combining push and pull, intelligent distribution of materials is achieved; Manufacturing process visualization can achieve dynamic and intuitive presentation of production processes, equipment operation status, and quality tracking status.
Ruijie Network, a professional network manufacturer with a full range of network equipment product lines and solutions, has established a more powerful and lean production and operation management platform to optimize business processes, improve management methods to improve work efficiency and product quality. It has introduced the SiE Electronics Industry Suite SEIS and successfully launched it.
SiE Information combines the production business form of Ruijie products to configure and use reasonable and flexible system functions, from material preparation to packaging and warehousing, optimize and improve the entire business process, improve business efficiency, and meet the business management requirements related to product recording, warning, reporting, and quality traceability, promoting mutual collaboration among various businesses, and moving towards the direction of digital factories and smart factories.
4. To be a leader in industrial management software
In terms of future development, SiE Information has three major principles:
Firstly, implement the positioning of digital empowerment and practitioners of industrial software.
SiE Information experts interviewed by reporters believe that enterprise digital empowerment includes several meanings: firstly, the target customer group is enterprise customers, and secondly, the goal is digital empowerment.
The transformation from informatization to digitization has a profound impact. Informatization is more about solving problems such as costs, processes, and information silos in enterprises. And digitization is more about connections, data applications, data value mining, and scenario applications.
SiE Information needs to actively explore customers, gain insight into their needs, and find new IT tools and digital application technologies from their needs to generate sustained value and empower the enterprise's digital transformation.
China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest manufacturing country, with the world's most comprehensive industrial system. In the future, Chinese enterprises' digital transformation requires software companies that have a better understanding of the Chinese market and industrial management software that is more suitable for the application needs of local enterprises.
Therefore, SiE Information will continue to increase its research and development investment in industrial management software, and continue to practice the development of industrial management software in China.
Secondly, with intelligent manufacturing as the core, strengthen product research and development.
Key technologies must be mastered in one's own hands in order to take the initiative in development. Economic globalization has brought more development opportunities to domestic enterprises, and at the same time, the rapidly changing market environment has also posed numerous challenges to enterprises, which can also lead to the problem of being "stuck".
SiE Information has made a forward-looking layout in the early stages of the company's development, promoting technological breakthroughs, and deeply integrating the process specifications of domestic discrete manufacturing industry and the actual needs of enterprises. It has expanded from software research and development to intelligent hardware, intelligent sensors, industrial gateways and other fields, as well as industrial internet platforms, industrial apps, SaaS applications and other products, with independent intellectual property rights.
Thirdly, create an ecosystem and optimize business models.
SiE Information continuously expands its industrial ecological layout, enriches the digital industry chain to cover more enterprise application scenarios and digital transformation needs. Through external investment, it constructs an industrial chain for internal and external collaborative development and a value chain system for benefit sharing, and continuously improves the company's industrial layout in the main channel of enterprise level services.
In 2018, SiE Information established SiE Industrial Investment Fund, actively practicing ecological synergy strategy, seeking extensional development, and committed to forming a comprehensive synergy effect from solutions to product resources, to customer resources, helping the company acquire key technologies and capabilities, and further expanding market share.
As of now, SiE Information has invested in more than 10 companies, invested in and controlled a large number of digital industry chain upstream and downstream enterprises, including Yitu Vision in the field of machine vision recognition, Xinguang Intelligent, an intelligent production line equipment enterprise focused on cultivation by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shangyue Network for procurement digitization, as well as a group of high-quality industrial internet innovation enterprises such as Zhisiyun, Kuaidi, and Chopsticks Technology.
In the industrial management software industry, SiE Information has emerged and its future steps will be more determined.
