October 23, IDC released R & D design industry software market share report, the report shows that in the CAD segment, in 2022, Dassault Systemes, Siemens and Autotable three overseas giants in the domestic market share declined, with domestic CAD leader Zhongwei Software as the representative of the local manufacturers have reached nearly 20% market share. Zhongwang has also overtaken PTC to rank fourth.

The 2022 software and information technology service industry Statistical Bulletin released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the beginning of this year shows that China’s software business revenue jumped to 10 trillion yuan last year (a total of 10,812.6 billion yuan), an increase of 11.2%.

It can be seen that domestic industrial software, which has been silent for many years, is ushering in a golden age. The two-way positive circulation relationship between industrial enterprises and industrial software has been preliminarily established.

So, under the background of core technology autonomy, which local software vendors can brave the trend? Under the trend of software localization, how should we identify and choose?

1The trend of The Times Industry embraces domestic 3D CAD

In the field of industrial design and manufacturing, CAD software is one of the most commonly used and essential production tools. According to the White Paper on Industrial Software in China, 75% of the cost of industrial products is determined by product design, and the cost of product design stage only accounts for 5% of the total development cost of products.

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With the development of science and technology and the change of consumer demand, the two-dimensional design method of 2D CAD used by industrial enterprises is difficult to cope with the fierce competition brought by the digital age. The continuous development and integration of parametric modeling, variable technology and synchronous technology make the advantages of 3D CAD in product design more and more prominent.

Different from 2D CAD, 3D CAD is more suitable for complex scenes such as solid modeling and surface modeling, and can provide more efficient, accurate and flexible design and manufacturing support, playing a crucial role in the middle and high-end manufacturing industry. According to the actual measurement, Ford company has compressed the development cycle of new vehicles from 18 months to 12 months after applying 3D CAD technology, reduced the physical modeling by 90%, reduced the design changes of new products by 50%, and reduced the trial production cost of new vehicles by 50%……

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. At this stage, most manufacturing companies have also shifted from the initial 2D CAD to 3D CAD. Through the upgrade of design tools to bring the upgrade of design methods, enterprises can seize the opportunity in the R & D design stage, obtain higher efficiency, more reliable quality, and improve product competitiveness and market share.

In recent years, the state attaches unprecedented importance to information security, coupled with the increasing uncertainty of the external environment, industrial enterprises begin to pay more attention to the security and controllability of the industrial software they apply. For various reasons, foreign software may have some security loopholes and backdoors, or may be controlled and regulated by foreign governments, which may bring unpredictable risks and losses to enterprises.

In addition, compliance requirements such as software legalization and the application needs of localization in the industry have also promoted Chinese industrial enterprises to gradually shift their focus to domestic production.