Extraordinary decade, Guangdong answer sheet. On October 8, Nanfang Daily issued a grand special report welcoming the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, reporting that SIE, an industrial software enterprise, enabled the digital transformation of manufacturing industry.

 SIE has deeply participated in the digital transformation of thousands of enterprises. Pictures provided by SIE

At Hucai Group, headquartered in Dongguan, electronic dashboards can monitor production progress, quality status, plan achievement, and equipment operation status in real-time. At present, Hucai has achieved automatic job reporting, officially entering the stage of "system serving people" from the "human service system".

Hucai, established for 34 years, has a leading on-demand publishing and printing factory in the Asia Pacific region. Previously, limited by the scattered market pattern of the traditional printing industry and the difficulty of large-scale mass production, SIE, an industrial management software company, improved its management efficiency and production level by building a digital supply chain collaboration system.

Ten years ago, it was rare for large manufacturing enterprises to join hands with domestic industrial management software enterprises. SIE Information continued to tackle key technologies, created independent and safe industrial management software, and constantly entered the high-end market. In the past decade, SIE Information has participated in and witnessed the overall improvement of the scale, quality and efficiency of the industrial management software industry and the vigorous development of the digital economy.

Growing together with high prosperity industries

We must leverage the weapons of digital transformation to enhance modern management capabilities, "said Yang Shouhai, Chairman and President of Red Sun Group, at a grand launch and mobilization meeting for a digital transformation project held at the company's Nanjing headquarters recently. To this end, the company joined hands with SIE Information as a long-term partner in digital transformation.

Red Sun Group is interested in SIE's rich experience and knowledge in the field of informatization and digitalization, as well as its leading digital products. The transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing requires industrial software as the core and the "brain" of industrial enterprise operations.

At present, SIE Information has also evolved from the original tool software in specific fields to the full life cycle software in the upstream and downstream of the tool chain and end-to-end, and then to the digital production and manufacturing platform.

Behind this is a profound change in the industrial landscape: competition between industrial enterprises has evolved into competition between supply chains. For manufacturing enterprises, enhancing information collaboration within the enterprise, upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and across industrial chains to achieve effective supply and demand docking, digitization will play an increasingly important role.

SIE has run its software system through data acquisition, analysis, decision-making, execution and other links. Its self-developed simulation technology can partially replace the prototype to achieve accurate simulation. Through simulation result data analysis, it can effectively shorten the product development cycle, improve product quality and speed up the launch of new products.

Digitization has enhanced the development resilience of enterprises. In the first half of this year, China's manufacturing industry achieved stabilization and recovery, with the CNC rate of key processes in industrial enterprises above designated size reaching 55.3%. The digital transformation of traditional industries is constantly accelerating.

At the same time, digital services also ushered in a positive development. According to the 2022 semi annual report, SIE Information achieved revenue of 1.026 billion yuan, an increase of 18.26% year on year, and realized a net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of 67.71 million yuan, an increase of 22.8% year on year.

Zhang Chengkang, chairman and CEO of SIE, summarized this report as that intelligent manufacturing has been implemented in a highly prosperous industry. Industries such as semiconductor and medical equipment have a strong demand for digital transformation; In the automotive industry, with the trend of "new four modernizations", auto parts are changing from mechanical products to intelligent products. The automotive electronics industry is still developing at a high speed, strengthening the demand for industrial management software and digitalization. SIE Information and the booming industry are growing together.

Assist enterprises in cultivating their 'internal strength'

Although many small and medium-sized enterprises have also realized the urgency of transformation, they are plagued by a series of problems such as funding, technology, and talent, and always face the dilemma of "not daring to transform, not being able to transform".

Zhang Chengkang believes that the main reason for "not being able to transform" is the lack of good digital transformation "mentors", and the core of "not daring to transform" is the lack of cost-effective products, platforms, and digital transformation professionals.

In this regard, SIE Information, together with Huawei and other digital "strength groups", jointly launched the "828 B2B Enterprise Festival" to provide consulting and diagnostic services, digital transformation products and platforms, and transformation talent training services for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises, solve the two pain points in the process of digital transformation, and help small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises get on the "fast train" of digital transformation.

During the rapid development of enterprises, no one has time to think about internal operational construction. However, when enterprises shift to a high-quality development stage, they need to improve their own management system and cultivate 'internal strength'. Zhang Chengkang said that compared to the past, small and medium-sized enterprises pay more attention to digital construction, and through digital layout, they can respond to the ever-changing market environment with a more flexible attitude.

Frontline cases

Industrial management software goes from 'usable' to 'easy to use'

SIE, headquartered in Guangzhou and founded in 2005, is now one of the leading enterprises in the domestic industrial management software industry. It has witnessed the progress of independent industrial management software from "functional" to "easy to use" all the way from being an agent of foreign big brand industrial management software to opening the road of independent research and development, and successfully listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Zhang Chengkang remembers that ten years ago, big domestic enterprises seldom considered independent industrial management software, and such software enterprises had only a few hundred million yuan of revenue a year. Compared with transnational software giants, it was simply a contest between ants and elephants, but SIE insisted on research and development investment.

The transformation comes from the vigorous digital transformation in the past decade, as well as the complex external situation. "Ten years ago, automobiles were still mechanical products. In the process of intelligent and electric transformation, the demand for industrial management software has greatly increased. At the same time, leading enterprises including Huawei have taken the lead in developing and introducing external independent software. A group of independent brand software companies have a place to play. After continuous polishing, the maturity gap of some basic software has significantly narrowed compared to international mainstream products," said Zhang Chengkang.

At present, SIE Information has been established for 17 years, and has deeply participated in the digital transformation and business transformation of more than 20 industries and thousands of enterprises. It has a deep understanding and experience of the manufacturing enterprises' production, supply chain, industrial engineering and other full value chains and all elements. Zhang Chengkang firmly believes that a sound industrial system and a huge manufacturing output value are the fertile ground for the growth of industrial management software in China.

Southern Daily reporter Gao Xiaoping