The manufacturing industry surpassed the financial industry for the first time, ranking second

From the perspective of industry development, the Internet is still the industry with the highest level of computing power development. In the 2022-2023 Global Computing Power Index Evaluation Report, it is particularly worth mentioning that the development level of manufacturing computing power exceeded that of the financial industry for the first time, ranking second.

From the market data point of view, in 2022, the global financial industry general server investment scale reached 12.47 billion US dollars, a year-on-year growth rate of 26.3%; The scale of investment in the manufacturing industry reached 12.58 billion US dollars, with a year-on-year growth rate of 29.0%.

From the perspective of application scenarios, in the context of global high digitalization, the manufacturing industry is facing more intense global competition, and the market changes more rapidly. At the same time, the main computing power needs of the two are different. The financial industry pays more attention to the rapid interaction of data and high-frequency trading, while the manufacturing industry usually needs to process real-time data on a large scale, simulate production, and optimize the supply chain. The demand for computing power is more diverse. For example, in automobile manufacturing, robot automatic production lines have been widely used in the production of body, engine, chassis and interior. In supply chain management, through digital production system and intelligent supply chain management, enterprises can respond to customer needs more quickly and provide personalized products and services.

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It can be said that the accelerated growth of the application of computing power in the manufacturing industry is mainly due to the fact that the manufacturing industry is in a critical period of digital transformation, and the development of technologies such as digitalization and artificial intelligence is bringing major changes to the manufacturing industry.

From the conclusion of the global Computing Power Index survey, the scenarios in which the manufacturing industry has increased IT investment in recent years are mainly: CRM, MES, CAE, ERP, OA, etc.; In the next two years, the main scenarios to increase investment include: MES, CAE, financial management system, SCM, etc.

On the other hand, the deep integration of industrial Internet, edge computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies has made the manufacturing industry continue to use digital technology to achieve innovation, and the digitalization process of the entire industry is also accelerating. Scenarios including design simulation, global digital twin, industrial metauniverse, autonomous driving simulation, industrial intelligent decision-making, AI visual quality inspection and other scenarios also put forward the demand for computing power.