It is an important task for all countries to transform traditional industries with information technology and accelerate the structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of manufacturing industry. Developed countries hope to develop e-commerce by accelerating the process of enterprise informatization, especially management informatization, so as to enhance the international competitiveness of manufacturing industry and the core competitiveness of enterprises. Newly industrialized countries hope to rank among the advanced countries in the world by accelerating informatization.
However, many developing countries have high hopes for informationization, hoping to use informationization to promote industrialization, take advantage of latecomers, realize leap-forward development and narrow the gap with advanced countries.
Informatization of manufacturing industry has become the general trend of manufacturing industry development in the world today. China is a big manufacturing country, facing the challenge of changing from "Made in China" to "Created in China". The deployment and application of application software plays a vital role in it.
The main application software of manufacturing industry includes enterprise resource planning (ERP), product life cycle management (PLM) and manufacturing execution plan (MES). According to CCID Consulting's research, in 2007, the total market size of three types of application software reached 42,265.438 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 20.3%. It is estimated that by 20 12, the scale of three types of manufacturing application software will be close to 9 billion yuan.
PLM becomes a hot spot for investment.
Judging from the current situation of manufacturing informatization, the informatization focus of manufacturing enterprises is often the deployment and application of ERP system, aiming at improving the efficiency of product production and supply. However, manufacturing enterprises that focus on product research and development pay more attention to the implementation and application of PLM software products, with the aim of shortening the time to market and meeting the individual needs of customers at lower cost.
With the development of information technology in manufacturing enterprises, most large domestic manufacturing enterprises have deployed their own ERP systems. Through the implementation of ERP, the supply, sales and storage systems of enterprises can be effectively managed. However, the key to the transformation from "Made in China" to "Created in China" is to quickly respond to market changes in the design process, ensure product quality and improve the grasp of product core technology.
PLM software research products can provide enterprises with an integrated product system that supports the rapid design, manufacture and optimization of products from the aspects of planning, design, manufacturing and sales management and cooperation.
According to CCID Consulting's research, from 2005 to 2007, with the maturity of manufacturing ERP software market, the growth rate of ERP software market slowed down. The growth of ERP market mainly benefits from the upgrading of the original system and the informationization of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. With the emphasis on independent research and development by manufacturing enterprises, the investment in PLM software will make it the fastest growing software compared with ERP and MES software.
Since 2007, IT investment in manufacturing informatization construction has shown a steady growth trend. Information investment in traditional manufacturing industries such as textiles and chemicals is growing rapidly, and IT investment in manufacturing industries with high information level such as automobiles and machinery will also maintain steady growth. The PLM market, which has always been low-key, is becoming surging.
The development of PLM benefits from the global innovation upsurge and the high enthusiasm of independent research and development of enterprises. At present, independent research and development has become the quality valued by many manufacturing enterprises, and PLM effectively helps enterprise users to improve the efficiency of design and research. Because of this, traditional MES vendors and ERP software vendors have turned their attention to this field.
Operation management becomes a trend.
CCID Consulting predicts that in 2008, CIO of manufacturing industry will start the transformation planning, integrate the existing information system, and replace the existing manufacturing execution system model with more convenient and centralized manufacturing operation management (MOM) specification, which should be the bottom business and IT level, not the upper control level.
In the field of discrete manufacturing, the emergence of MOM will enable about 20% discrete manufacturers to build a unified platform for the integration of enterprise application and manufacturing execution functions centered on PLM, and expand the design and operation space of manufacturing industry. Siemens' acquisition of UGS and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's acquisition of Agile show us that manufacturers are developing towards integrated design and manufacturing systems.
The development of MES software is no longer limited to the workshop level, but only to bridge the information gap between the control level and ERP data. In fact, MES software has developed into a broad concept, and both the market and the enterprise demand * * * promote the development of MES software to MOM. For MES companies in the industry and some global suppliers, the MOM software market is becoming a key competitive field. Almost all successful MES software vendors are shifting from MES to integrated MOM, and strengthening the integration with more and more important business processes. Users are also beginning to consider integrating business process management (BPM) into their project scope.
Integration and cooperation have become the focus of competition.
In the manufacturing application software market in 2007, for large enterprise users, deepening the application on the basis of integrating the original decentralized system has become their focus at this stage. Some users have begun to consider the possible path to realize SOA, but this market will basically be occupied by leading international manufacturers. For small and medium-sized enterprise users, the products of domestic manufacturers are highly valued and recognized in terms of ERP, PLM and MES, but with the participation of more and more manufacturers, the competition in this market is becoming more and more fierce. From the market point of view, manufacturers are required to make a comprehensive breakthrough at all levels of the market.
Major domestic manufacturers, including UFIDA, Kingdee, DCMS, CAXA, Baoxin, Mu Kai, etc. In terms of brand image, industry experience and product strategy, we strive to enhance our voice and influence in the high-end market, and services, especially consulting and training services, have become the focus of investment. Foreign manufacturers, such as SAP, Oracle and Siemens, penetrate the low-end market by expanding channels and partners.
In this way, domestic and foreign manufacturers compete and collide in the high, medium and low-end markets, and the competition pattern will change subtly, and the low-end market will change faster than the high-end market. As major manufacturers pay more attention to the low-end market, domestic manufacturers who were originally positioned in the small and medium-sized enterprise market will face enormous pressure of survival and competition, and domestic small and medium-sized manufacturing software enterprises will inevitably survive the fittest.
At present, the leading manufacturers of manufacturing software in the international market have realized that manufacturing application software in ERP, PLM, MES and other fields is becoming saturated, and customers' demand for upstream and downstream applications and overall manufacturing solutions is increasing. Therefore, many manufacturers have started product expansion projects through mergers and acquisitions, cooperation, investment and equity participation. And integrating more functions such as ERP, PLM and MES into their own software products has become the development trend of big manufacturers, and those manufacturers who can't follow up the same will face crisis.
This feature can also be seen from the actual situation of domestic and foreign markets in 2007. Companies such as UFIDA, Kingdee and DCMS have entered the PLM field through cooperation. SAP and Oracle also introduced process or discrete industrial manufacturing execution system (MFS) products based on the original PLM solution. To a certain extent, this has also promoted the launch of e-commerce suites similar to ERP, PLM and MES integration, and I believe this kind of products will also be welcomed by the majority of manufacturing users.