Frost & Sullivan releases the '2023 China Industrial Digitalization Software White Paper'

Since the 21st century, industrial digitization in China has gradually been implemented in production practices across various industries and production links through top-level design. Initial results have been achieved in industrial digitization. In the future, the country will focus on promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, and strive to accelerate the digital transformation of industry.

Industrial digitization comprehensively enhances enterprise efficiency from four core dimensions: R&D design, production control, operation management, and operational services. The digital system and intelligent manufacturing model help enterprises achieve lean development and structural upgrading of industries. Industrial digitization provides full-chain support for equipment connectivity, efficient production, and precise policy implementation, promoting coordinated development among various industries and platforms, and creating a 'virtual-real integration' digital industrial core competitiveness.

Industrial digital solutions rely on digital means such as information technology, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. They empower various aspects of industrial enterprises, including R&D, production, operation and maintenance management, through hardware and software, thereby promoting the digital transformation of industrial enterprises.

Industrial digitalization solutions refer to an overall plan that comprehensively optimizes and upgrades the industrial production process by applying digital technology means such as information technology, communication technology, big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and virtual reality. It closely integrates various links of industrial production and manufacturing enterprises, realizes efficient sharing of resources and information, improves production efficiency and management levels, promotes the overall competitiveness of enterprises, and ultimately achieves the transformation and upgrading of the industrial industry.

Industrial digital solutions can be divided into industrial digital hardware and industrial digital software, providing intelligent and flexible solutions for the development pain points of industrial sectors such as production efficiency, quality, customized R&D, energy consumption, equipment maintenance and management, information silos, marketing, and industry collaboration. As the 'new engine' of digital economic development, it continuously integrates multiple scenarios such as manufacturing, mining, and energy, driving various industries to achieve technological innovation, model upgrading, efficiency improvement, and transformational development.

Industrial digitalization software carries industrial knowledge and experience, addressing the needs of R&D design, production manufacturing, operation and maintenance services, business management, and other scenarios. Information resources run through all aspects of data collection, analysis, decision-making, and execution, enabling the value of data to serve all industrial links. This enhances the efficiency and quality of industrial operations and helps industries complete digital transformation.

Industrial digitalization software integrates industrial knowledge and experience, targeting the industrial field. It addresses the digital transformation needs in scenarios such as R&D design, production manufacturing, operation and maintenance services, and business management. Information resources run through all aspects including data collection, analysis, decision-making, and execution.

Automotive sector:The automotive industry faces complex challenges such as intelligent cockpit design, flexible production requirements, complex material scheduling and process arrangement, as well as massive online and offline marketing and customer data management. It is urgently necessary to utilize industrial digital software to improve design efficiency, enhance rapid adjustment capabilities and efficiency during production, and carry out marketing management more efficiently.

Electronic field:Products in the electronics field continue to evolve towards diversification, miniaturization, precision, and integration. The difficulty and complexity of equipment operation and maintenance increase, the threshold for product design rises, and the requirements for precision, speed, and reliability in manufacturing processes become more stringent. It is necessary to promote automatic operation and maintenance through digital transformation, lower the threshold for research and development design, and improve the efficiency and quality of manufacturing processes.

The accelerating development of the industrial digital software industry is driven by four major factors: continuously increasing wages and safety hazards, technological advancements that continue to break through and improve rapidly, threats from export control policies, and fierce industry competition. Additionally, strong policy support has contributed to this acceleration.

Industrial digital software is developing towards low-code development, enabling industrial enterprises to quickly implement digital platforms. This approach solves problems such as data silos, business silos, and the integration of OT and IT, reducing the capital and time costs of digital transformation. It allows enterprises to focus more on continuous business innovation, enhancing their agility and autonomy. Industrial digital software continues to develop in the direction of low code to improve the agility of development and operations, the reusability of work results, and the degree of fit with actual industrial business needs. It connects internal and external enterprise data, improves application scalability, and unleashes personnel's design capabilities, promoting continuous innovation within enterprises.

The future functions of industrial digitalization software will further integrate domain-specific expertise and develop towards integrated product offerings. The usage threshold will be reduced and convenience will be improved. By combining the latest technologies and service delivery models, continuous innovation will be pursued. The industry standard system will be gradually improved, and open-source initiatives will continue to drive the industry towards maturity.

In recent years, China's macro policies for industrial digital software have been continuously integrated into government planning. The policy actively guides and promotes industry development in multiple aspects such as R&D personnel, industrial system construction, and the number of applications implemented. It particularly supports increasing the localization rate of industrial digital software to enhance the overall level of digital construction.

Industrial digitalization software can be mainly divided into production control, operation management, R&D design, and operation and maintenance service software. The main competing enterprises can be categorized into domestic manufacturers and foreign manufacturers.

The industrial digital software industry has high barriers, with the competitive landscape of upstream R&D software becoming rigid. Factors such as industrial accumulation and unified standards raise the entry threshold of the industry. Vertical industries have significant changes in production control processes, providing opportunities for new entrants.

• Zero Gamescloud

ZeroSight is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to industrial software research and development, as well as industrial digital transformation solutions. Established in 2017, it currently has a Suzhou R&D headquarters, a Shanghai marketing center, and delivery centers in various cities. The company has over 100 employees, with R&D personnel accounting for more than 70%. Well-known industrial enterprise clients include Sany, Geely, Siemens Energy, General Electric, XinAo Power, Honeywell, etc. Based on its independently developed model-driven low-code engine as the core, ZeroSight has launched a highly available and flexible product matrix - the Leansight industrial software series, providing enterprises with a new generation of end-to-end digital systems and solutions that cover all stages of intelligent manufacturing planning for enterprises, including Industrial Agile BI LeanBI, Industrial Data Fusion LeanFusion, Industrial Model Low-Code LeanCodee, and Industrial Digital Intelligence All-in-One Machine LeanMatrix.

• UFIDA

UFIDA was founded in 1988 and is a global leader in enterprise cloud services and software. It provides digital, intelligent, highly elastic, secure and trustworthy, platform-based, ecological, globalized, and socialized enterprise cloud service products and solutions for customers in the fields of finance, human resources, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, marketing, R&D, project management, asset management, and collaboration. The products mainly include three categories: software business, YonBIP, and cloud ERP. The main products include the flagship version of YonBIP for large enterprises such as NV Cloud, YonSuite, U9 Cloud, U8 Cloud for medium-sized enterprises, and ChangjieTong for small and micro enterprises.

• Defan Information

DeFang Information was established in 2014, currently with a team of over 600 people. DeFang Information focuses on the enterprise-level software high productivity PaaS domain and is a leader in domestic low-code PaaS platforms, providing one-stop digital solutions for application and data integration to global enterprises. It owns two core products: DeCod, a low-code platform, and DeFusion, an integrated platform, focusing on both "application development" and "integration services" in the low-code field, complementing each other to form DeFang Information's advantage in the PaaS domain. It meets the needs of enterprises for quickly building business applications and also has "unlimited" personalized customization capabilities. Products such as DeMDM, enterprise portal DePortal, and data center DeHoop help enterprises quickly achieve digital transformation.

From September 19th to September 23rd, 2023, the 23rd China International Industry Fair will be held at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center. Lingsa Cloud, with its four major modules of "Intelligent Control Tower" - intelligent control, operational execution, low-code platform, and industrial AI - will showcase industry-leading solutions and innovative products for customers and partners at the fair. Zhuang Jianwei, founder and CEO of Lingsa Cloud, will share rich practical content at the main forum and release the "2023 China Industrial Digitalization Software White Paper" on-site to assist in the innovative development of domestic industrial software. We warmly welcome you to join us for discussions on cutting-edge topics in future industry.