China News Service: In the global competitive environment, what challenges have different Chinese enterprises encountered in digital transformation?

783816-01 Liu Junmei: In the digital transformation, different enterprises in China face different challenges: large enterprises are more inclined to do standardized products, personalized products are more suitable for small enterprises and small teams to implement. The main force of China’s manufacturing industry is a large number of small and medium-sized waist enterprises. However, small and medium-sized enterprises in the traditional manufacturing industry have long adopted traditional management mode and production methods, and there are many problems in the understanding of transformation methodology and transformation cases, that is, what to do and how to do. Therefore, small and medium-sized enterprises often have the problem of “do not want to turn” and “will not turn” when they carry out digital transformation. Many small and medium-sized enterprises have not yet completed the automation transformation, and the limitation of capital makes the trial and error ability of enterprises insufficient, resulting in “dare not turn”. Small and medium-sized enterprises also have talent problems, usually need a professional team to help execute the transformation plan and path, even if the external team is hired to help the enterprise carry out digital transformation, there is a lack of relevant internal talent to understand and execute the plan, which can easily lead to unsatisfactory transformation effect or even failure.

783816-01 China News Service: In terms of industrial software, how is China’s competitive strength? In the digital age, how to learn from the practices and experiences of western developed countries?

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Liu Junmei: Industrial software is the brain and nerve of the manufacturing industry. China’s scientific industrial software has the largest gap from the international level, followed by engineering, and the smallest gap is management software. However, the level of China’s domestic industrial software is not lagging behind the international, but showing business alienation, and even ahead of the international management software.

783816-01 In terms of core engines and scientific software, China is still lagging behind across the board. At present, most of the software in China is based on the open source data of the United States, which means that we have not established a perfect software system. In order to solve these problems, China has increased software technology research and development and innovation efforts, and achieved phased results. For example, in the field of CAD, ERP, FP, SCM, PLC and other industrial software, the localization rate has been high, and the domestic ERP software has occupied nearly 90% of the market share; At the same time, a large number of system solution suppliers have emerged, including more than 40 system solution suppliers whose main business revenue exceeds 1 billion yuan (RMB).

In particular, attention should be paid to the lack of sufficient application scenarios such as China’s domestic industrial software. In the face of the technical advantages and market monopoly of developed countries such as Europe and the United States in the software field, we need to release some suitable application scenarios to domestic intelligent equipment, so that domestic software has the opportunity to trial and error verification.

783816-01 In the wave of digital transformation, the first thing to be solved in the development of digital transformation of China’s manufacturing industry is the problem of “weak foundation”. In this regard, we can learn from the experience of German platform construction, strengthen cooperation with Germany in this respect, and promote the maturity and perfection of relevant platform systems such as the integration platform of the two chemical systems, the industrial Internet network innovation laboratory, and the industrial Internet manufacturing safety integration test bed. The digital transformation under the thinking of the industrial Internet in the United States can exactly match the actual situation in China.

In July 2023, the manufacturing digital transformation research team of Fudan University conducted a survey on more than 30 digital transformation service providers and demand-side enterprises. Respondent contribution