How is the development of domestic industrial software? What is the important role of industrial software in intelligent manufacturing?

Industrial software: the key to promote the manufacturing industry from large to strong

Industrial software is the soul of modern industry and represents the development direction of advanced productive forces in manufacturing industry. Powerful industrial software can make the national manufacturing industry competitive.

Industrial software is the fundamental competitiveness of national manufacturing industry.

Developing industrial software is the necessary foundation to promote intelligent manufacturing. The deep integration of modern information communication technology and manufacturing technology is the key to intelligent manufacturing, which involves the integration of hardware, software, network, computing and other technologies with manufacturing technology, and industrial software is the most critical technology. No matter the integration of hardware, network, computing and manufacturing technology, it is inseparable from the definition, coding and packaging of software.

Developing industrial software is an important starting point to enhance the international competitiveness of manufacturing industry. The core of industrial software is industrial basic data, and the industrial software supported by data is powerful. For example, in aircraft, ships and other fields, industrial software can make software pattern testing and prototype testing do exactly the same, greatly reducing the probability of prototype design errors. At present, developed manufacturing countries are willing to build large-scale high-end equipment factories overseas, and are willing to export design, assembly, testing and maintenance. It is precisely because industrial software better ensures the full application of technology and technology does not leak.

Developing industrial software is the premise of promoting the innovation of manufacturing production and business model. The informatization construction of enterprise R&D design, production control, assembly test, after-sales operation and maintenance, remote service and so on can not be separated from the support of industrial software, which defines the basic theoretical system of R&D design, production control flow, product assembly sequence, product testing mechanism, operation and maintenance mode and so on. , and even defined the business model of manufacturing. Collaborative R&D, personalized customization, network manufacturing, online operation and maintenance, time-sharing and other new business models are inseparable from the support of industrial software.

Problems in the Development of Industrial Software in China

The manufacturing industry has long relied on foreign industrial software, lacking long-term R&D and the accumulation of key technological processes and industrial technical data, and some areas are hollowed out. China's key manufacturing fields, such as aircraft, ships, metallurgy, chemical industry, biomedicine and electronic information manufacturing, have long been accustomed to using foreign industrial software, and they don't know enough about the design principle behind it, and lack the long-term accumulation of basic technology research and development data, which leads to an obvious gap in the accumulation of basic technology principle data. It is impossible to sell industrial software with the latest foreign innovative data, and the solidified data in the industrial software that can be sold is often the data of the previous generation or even generations.

The integration of software industry and manufacturing industry is not high, and large-scale manufacturing enterprises lack active layout, so it is difficult for pure software enterprises to transform into industrial software enterprises. There are natural professional and technical barriers for pure software enterprises to enter the field of industrial software. Industrial software is different from ordinary network application software. It is a programmed package of industrial processes and technologies, which needs the support of industrial processes and huge technical data. This is by no means something that a pure software company can accomplish alone. At present, domestic large-scale manufacturing enterprises lack a deep understanding of the importance of industrial software in the era of intelligent manufacturing. They are used to buying and applying industrial software of foreign enterprises, and will not actively lay out and strengthen the software packaging of key core process flows, processes and technologies of enterprises, so as to improve the convenience of process data application and the safety guarantee of industrial core technology output.

The domestic industrial software market is monopolized by foreign enterprises, the development of domestic industrial software is seriously lagging behind, and the industrial ecological foundation is still very weak. The key core technologies in key industrial fields are mastered by foreign enterprises, and the software of key core industrial aided design, process control and simulation test are almost all foreign enterprise software. The research and development of industrial software needs the support of ecosystem. However, at present, China's industrial operating system, industrial software development platform and other important domestic industrial basic software are missing in the whole industry chain, which directly leads to the almost blank domestic industrial control application software running on the domestic industrial operating system.

The domestic standard of industrial software is missing, the application degree of comprehensive integration is not high, and the role of industrial software is limited. In recent years, Siemens, General Electric and other large manufacturing enterprises have stepped up the integration of industrial technology and software technology, and strengthened their core competitiveness in the era of intelligent industry by vigorously acquiring software enterprises. At present, the factual standards of domestic industrial software market are dominated by large foreign manufacturing enterprises, and foreign enterprises compete in standards, which leads to great problems in the compatibility and interconnection of products from different manufacturers when the products of foreign enterprises are adopted in the domestic market at the same time. Due to the low degree of systematization of domestic intelligent products in key domestic manufacturing fields, most of them are actively required, interconnected with each other's products, and can only passively abide by each other's product standards.

The role of industrial software in the innovation of manufacturing model has not yet been brought into play, and the smile curve of manufacturing industry is subject to the deficiency of industrial software. Because domestic industrial software applications are still generally in a few single application links, such as R&D design and industrial control, R&D design, process control and other integrated applications running through the whole manufacturing industry are few, and there are big problems in the compatibility of industrial software programs from different manufacturers, and the comprehensive integration effect of industrial software has not yet appeared.

Suggestions on Promoting the Development of Industrial Software

Establish industrial software industry investment fund and increase support for industrial software industry. Encourage large-scale manufacturing enterprises to invest in mergers and acquisitions of foreign industrial software service companies to promote technology introduction, digestion, absorption and re-innovation; Industrial information service engineering company develops standardized, universal and platform-based industrial information service software products; Industrial big data service enterprises sort out, excavate, * * * enjoy and open up industrial big data; Researchers of manufacturing-related majors in universities and research institutes establish and open industrial technology and process databases to provide public data support for industrial software development.

Carry out the identification of industrial software service enterprises and other related work, and implement more preferential policies such as taxation, investment and financing, and intellectual property support in the industrial software industry. Carry out the special work of identifying industrial software service enterprises, and implement the tax reduction and exemption policy for industrial software industry that is more favorable than the software industry. Establish a number of national engineering laboratories for industrial software in key manufacturing fields such as steel, metallurgy, ships, airplanes, automobiles, high-speed rail, biomedicine, electronic information manufacturing, etc., and encourage large manufacturing enterprises and software enterprises in the industry to jointly take the lead. We will invest in the acquisition of foreign industrial software enterprises by domestic enterprises, simplify the examination and approval procedures for overseas investment, and implement relevant tax relief policies. For the listed financing behavior of industrial software enterprises, the entry threshold for listing will be lowered, and the relevant taxes will be reduced or exempted for the investment behavior of industrial software enterprises. Apply for relevant financial capital projects for recognized industrial software enterprises, and lower the application threshold in terms of operating income, tax payment and human resources.

Establish an industrial software alliance with leading manufacturing enterprises as the core, and build an industrial software industry ecosystem. Give full play to the role of manufacturing industry associations and software industry associations, encourage manufacturing enterprises, software enterprises and industrial data analysis enterprises to jointly establish industrial software alliances in different industries, and strengthen the joint development and popularization and application of industrial software. Give play to the role of industrial software alliance, and focus on promoting the development, promotion and application of industrial software in key industries such as steel, metallurgy, shipbuilding, aircraft and automobiles. Cultivate basic software information service providers such as industrial operating system, industrial database, industrial software development platform and industrial software programming language. Encourage universities and research institutes to strengthen the research on key technologies of basic software platforms such as industrial operating systems, industrial databases and industrial software development platforms, and advocate Industry-University-Research Union. Strengthen the cooperation between industrial software enterprises and internet enterprises, encourage the development of platform-based and networked industrial software, and provide cheap industrial software cloud services for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises.

Accelerate the formulation of industrial standards for industrial software and promote the integrated application of industrial software in manufacturing. Formulate relevant standards for industrial operating systems, and form an industrial operating system standard with rich and diverse application interfaces, safe and efficient operation, large system throughput, short response time, strong fault tolerance, friendly user interface and portability. Formulate relevant standards for industrial databases, and form industrial database standards that can support industrial big data storage, high concurrent connection, diverse query paradigms, efficient search and search, and safe and reliable technology. Formulate relevant standards for industrial software development platform, and form an industrial software development platform standard that can support cross-platform, rich application interfaces, efficient compilation and operation, safe and credible programs, and quick installation and deployment. Formulate industrial software programming language standards, form a set of standardized, universal, efficient, safe, portable and easy-to-learn industrial software programming language standards, and increase education in information technology colleges.

(Dr. Feng Lubo, CCID Research Institute, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)