In the past year, industrial software and chips have hit both the "soft" and "hard" swords of Chinese manufacturing in several "bottleneck" incidents. 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 for China to move from a "manufacturing power" to a "manufacturing powerhouse", with its impact becoming increasingly prominent.

More and more Chinese companies are demonstrating their strength in the independent development of industrial software. The latest annual report of SIE, a listed company, shows that the company's sales scale in the field of intelligent manufacturing increased by 149.6% in the fiscal year 2020, and it has grown significantly in the field of industrial management software, starting to emerge in the industry.

1. The Rise of China's Power in Industrial Management Software

In the software industry, industrial software has a relatively small proportion, so Chinese industrial software companies that started almost simultaneously with Western countries either gave up due to a small market or made slow progress due to low investment and talent shortages.

Industrial software is known as the brain and nerve of industrial manufacturing, and can be called the "crown" of the industrial field. With the emergence of the "neck sticking" phenomenon, we suddenly realized that,In the field of high-end industrial software, there is a huge "gap" between domestic software and foreign leaders.

Global industrial software giants were born in industrial manufacturing powerhouses. From a global perspective, industrial manufacturing powerhouses are mainly distributed in Europe and America, including the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia, as well as Japan, South Korea, and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

In China, an industrialized country, apart from management software, there are no giant enterprises that can compete with developed countries in terms of enterprise valuation, market sales scale, market share, technological leadership, platform maturity, and ecological completeness in industrial software.

On the one hand, industrial software is a necessary foundation for promoting intelligent manufacturing and is indispensable; 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 addressed as China moves towards intelligent manufacturing.

At present, developing independent and controllable industrial software has become a "national policy".

As early as February this year, industrial software was first selected as one of the first key projects in the National Key R&D Program 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 for Key Special Projects of National Key R&D Program" Industrial Software "released by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Draft for Comments), 2021 will focus on four technical directions: digital ecology and basic cutting-edge technologies for manufacturing, core software for product lifecycle, intelligent factory technology and systems, and industrial collaboration 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 value and strong support.

After years of crawling, China's industrial software has begun to rise, and SIE Information is one of them.

At present, the industrial management software of SIE Information has the strength comparable to the imported software, and has also been recognized by many leading enterprises.

2. SIE actively distributes industrial management software

SIE has the gene to develop industrial management software since its inception. The founding team of the company is one of the earliest people 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 industrial software needs of enterprises, especially Chinese manufacturing enterprises.

In the process of enterprise development, SIE Information acutely found that, with the rapid rise of China's economy, the demand of enterprises 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.

First of all, the development of SIE information industry management software is based on the digital transformation of enterprises, adhere to the independent research and development of industrial management software, and serve the digitalization of enterprise business and management.

In the process of development and growth, SIE Information has closely followed the latest technological development and domestic enterprise application and scenario requirements, vigorously promoted the independent research and development of industrial software, and developed a batch of industrial management software products more suitable for Chinese manufacturing, from the initial ERP consulting and implementation services and the agency implementation of foreign top industrial management software.

At the same time, the development of SIE information industry management software is closely related to the big goal of digital transformation of enterprises. Through the digital transformation service for more than 20 industries and 1000+enterprises in China, SIE Information has a better understanding of the segmentation scenarios and application needs of Chinese enterprise industrial management software, and has realized the mission and positioning of its industrial management software practitioners.

Secondly, in the process of serving domestic enterprises, we have accumulated and precipitated rich digital application scenarios and product solutions for enterprises, and independently developed a complete set of core industrial management software and systems required for manufacturing management.

These products have the characteristics of localization, strong integration, and customizable implementation. They have very strong scalability and can highly match the actual production scenarios of local enterprises. They have taken the lead in achieving domestic substitutability in domestic enterprise applications.

Third, as a practitioner of domestic industrial management software, SIE Information has been focusing on and serving 23 key industry fields such as communication, electronics, household appliances, mechanical equipment, household appliances, petrochemical, and fast moving consumer goods for 16 years, especially the early consultation and late solution provision and application implementation of digitalization in industrial manufacturing. It has already had 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 customers+operation provider" in the form of intelligent machine+cloud platform+industrial app and other forms.

At present, SIE Information has accumulated more than 1000 industry benchmark customer enterprises, such as Huawei, Midea, Country Garden, Libai, Oupai Home, and has been recognized and praised.

3. Industrial management software products are emerging and serving Chinese manufacturing

In the field of industrial management software, SIE has independently developed eight industrial management software products and industrial management software suite SMOM, including SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), Production Planning Scheduling (SAPS), Manufacturing Process Management (SMES), Warehouse Management (SWMS), Quality Management (SQMS), Equipment Operation Management (SEDO), Equipment Integration (SMDC), Digital Intelligent Operation (SMI), etc., in deep combination with the process specifications of domestic discrete manufacturing industry and the actual needs of enterprises.

SIE has been deeply understanding the landing applications and latest exploration of different needs of industrial manufacturing industry, providing products and solutions to 23 industries and 11 business lines, accumulating and settling a wealth of enterprise digital application scenarios and product solutions in household appliances, household appliances, mechanical equipment and other industries, and also harvesting a large number of successful customer cases.

shallow. SIE's newly launched SEIS (SIE MOM Electronic Industry Suite) is aimed at solving the production operation management problems faced by enterprises. It aims to create an overall solution for intelligent manufacturing in electronic manufacturing industry, from lean production to operation management, comprehensively support the product manufacturing and innovation upgrading of electronic manufacturing enterprises, and accelerate the pace of digital transformation of the industry.

Firstly, the electronic industry suite SEIS focuses on cultivating new intelligent manufacturing models in the electronic manufacturing industry, around various entities and resources in the electronic industry chain, in accordance with the action guidelines of "meeting new demands, configuring new elements, forming new supply, and achieving new balance".

Secondly, SEIS takes real-time collaborative management as the main idea, dynamic scheduling as the core, and closed-loop management covering the entire lifecycle of manufacturing enterprises from order reception to delivery as the overall goal. By solving the pain points and problems of manufacturing management in electronic enterprises, as well as controlling and managing the main links of business processes, SEIS improves production equipment and personnel efficiency, reduces logistics costs, improves product process quality, and enhances business management level.

Thirdly, SEIS covers the entire lifecycle of the electronic manufacturing industry and integrates the advantages of SIE's 8 major industrial management software products, including advanced planning and scheduling SAPS, to help enterprises achieve refined production planning 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 can be achieved; Manufacturing process visualization can achieve dynamic and intuitive presentation of production process, equipment operation status, and quality tracking status.

Ruijie Network, a specialized network manufacturer with a full range of network equipment product lines and solutions, has introduced the SIE Electronics Industry Suite SEIS and successfully launched it in order to optimize business processes, improve management methods to enhance work efficiency and product quality, and establish a stronger lean production and operation management platform.

SIE, in combination with the production business form of Ruijie products, carries out rational and flexible system function configuration and use. From material preparation to packaging and warehousing, it optimizes and improves the whole business process, improves business efficiency, and meets the business management requirements related to product records, early warnings, reports and quality traceability, promotes the mutual collaboration of all businesses, and moves towards a digital factory and a smart factory.

4. To be a leader in industrial management software

In terms of future development, SIE Information adheres to "three major principles":

Firstly, implement the positioning of digital enablers and practitioners of industrial software.

SIE experts interviewed by reporters believe that enterprise digital enablers contain several meanings: first, the target customer group is enterprise customers, and second, the goal is digital empowerment.

The transition from informatization to digitization has a profound impact. Informationization is more about solving problems such as cost, process, and information silos for enterprises. Digitalization focuses more on connectivity, data application, data value mining, and scenario applications.

SIE should take the initiative to explore customers, gain insight into their needs, and find out from their needs that new IT means and digital application technologies can be used to generate sustainable value and enable the digital transformation of enterprises.

China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest manufacturing country, with the most comprehensive industrial system in the world. In the future, the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises requires software companies that have a better understanding of the Chinese market, as well as industrial management software that is more suitable for the application needs of local enterprises.

Therefore, SIE Information will continue to increase its R&D 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, while the rapidly changing market environment has also posed numerous challenges to enterprises, including the problem of being "choked".

SIE has carried out a forward-looking layout in the early stage of the company's development, promoted technological breakthroughs, deeply combined with the process specifications of domestic discrete manufacturing industry and the actual needs of enterprises, expanded from software research and development to intelligent hardware, intelligent sensors, industrial gateways and other fields, as well as industrial Internet platforms, industrial APP, SaaS applications and other products, with independent intellectual property rights.

Thirdly, build an ecosystem and optimize business models.

SIE continues to expand the industrial ecological layout, enrich the digital industrial chain to cover more enterprise application scenarios and digital transformation needs, build an industrial chain of internal and external coordinated development and a value chain system of benefit sharing through foreign investment, and constantly improve the company's industrial layout in the main channel of enterprise level services.

In 2018, SIE Information set up SIE Industrial Investment Fund, actively practicing ecological synergy strategy, seeking extension development, and committed to forming all-round synergy effects from solutions to product resources, to customer resources, to help the company acquire key technologies and capabilities, and further expand market share.

Up to now, SIE has invested in more than 10 companies, invested and controlled a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises in the digital industry chain, including Yitu Vision in the field of machine vision recognition, Xinguang Intelligent, an intelligent production line equipment enterprise focused on the cultivation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shangyue Network for digital procurement, and a number of high-quality industrial Internet innovation enterprises such as Wisdom Cloud, Quick Decision, Chopsticks Technology, etc.

In the industry of industrial management software, SIE Information has come to the fore, and its future steps will be more firm.