(1) Positive design based on simulation is the only way of our industrial independent innovation

“Forward design” means that in the process of product design, various elements of the product are designed according to the needs through various design concepts, methods and tools, so as to make a brand new product. The corresponding “reverse engineering” refers to the reverse analysis and research of a product, so as to deduce and obtain various design elements of the product, so as to make a product with similar functions. But it’s not exactly the same product.

Chinese industry in the development process, from the Angle of industrial chain, partial processing, assembly and manufacturing, but the front-end product design link, lack of original innovation, lack of positive design ability, more is to do “reverse engineering”, and then through the cost advantage of demographic dividend, price of raw materials and so on to expand the market. It leads to a certain gap between the high-end manufacturing field and some developed countries, which becomes one of the important factors restricting the transformation and upgrading of our manufacturing industry.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s economy has shifted from high-speed growth to high-quality development. It has become an urgent task to transform the development mode, optimize the economic structure and transform the growth momentum. In this context, the only way to achieve the transformation from “Made in China” to “created in China” is to promote the deep cross-border integration of the new generation of information technology and industrial manufacturing, pay more attention to basic research, original innovation and forward design, and improve the enterprise’s underlying independent R&D and design capability.

As an important industrial software of R&D and design, CAE simulation software can optimize product design schemes, improve product performance, shorten development cycle, reduce design costs, and predict product functional availability, reliability, efficiency and safety through simulation. Cae simulation software is the core tool software to realize product forward design and original innovation.

(2) The importance of CAE technology becomes more prominent when it is integrated into every link of manufacturing industry

With the intensification of competition and diversification of customer demand, low value-added products or services can no longer meet the requirements of market and environmental development. Modern manufacturing products are becoming more and more complex, more and more complete in function, and product design presents the characteristics of digitalization, specialization, integration and so on. As a powerful tool software product, CAE software is becoming the most important tool for the integration of the digital space and the physical world. The core change brought by CAE software is the continuous use of CAE technology in the whole life cycle of products to realize the replacement of experiments.

When the product is in the early conceptual design stage, developers can test the initial concept and seek the best solution of initial parameters through CAE technology, so as to obtain a reliable preliminary product design scheme. In the product system or detailed design stage, developers can simulate the product or engineering scheme through CAE technology, so as to continuously optimize the product design scheme; At the product manufacturing stage, the combination of CAE technology and artificial intelligence helps to ensure the consistency of finished product manufacturing, ensure product accuracy and reduce costs.

In general, with the development of computer technology, the function of CAE software is constantly strengthened, which can be integrated into every link of the manufacturing industry and become an important means for manufacturing enterprises to improve their innovation and creativity.

(3) Industrial software localization trend

Based on the development of industrial system, developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States have taken the lead in establishing a relatively complete industrial system, which has a strong first-mover advantage in the field of design simulation analysis technology. ANSI, Dassault, Siemens and other international well-known industrial software enterprises with mature technology, in our research and development software market dominance. In recent years, the pace of transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry has been accelerating. Multiple departments have promulgated relevant policies for the development of intelligent manufacturing, in order to promote the development of digital industry, vigorously promote the promotion and application of independent controllable industrial software, and improve the level of enterprise software.

Since 2019, basic industrial software has been banned in many Chinese scientific research institutions and institutes, and the importance of localization of core technologies in the field of industrial software has become increasingly prominent. Facing major national needs, it is urgent to make efforts to realize autonomous and controllable key core technologies in key fields and congested fields. The pace of domestic industrial software entering large domestic enterprises will also be accelerated due to concerns about advanced manufacturing and information security issues. Under the influence of domestic policy and macro environment, the localization of industrial software will become the long-term development trend of industrial software industry.

(4) The trend of cloud-based industrial software is obvious

Industrial cloud platform essentially belongs to the industrial Internet and is an important carrier of intelligent manufacturing. Relying on information technology to mine and analyze massive data, it realizes the explicit and digitalization of the whole elements, the whole industrial chain and the whole value chain of industrial manufacturing process.

According to the Industrial Internet Industry Economic Development Report released by the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance, the added value of the core industrial Internet industry (network, platform, security and other hardware and software infrastructure involved in the construction of the industrial Internet) will reach 652 billion yuan in 2020.

Cloud computing Uses virtualization technology to pool underlying IT resources. That is, independent servers and storage devices form a larger computing resource pool. Cloud computing provides elastic, scalable, and high-performance computing resources. By building a simulation cloud platform, the simulation technology can be popularized in small and medium-sized enterprises. Small and medium-sized enterprises can carry out simulation design by purchasing services, reduce the cost of R&D innovation, and meet the needs of stimulating the innovation vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises.

(5) Digital twins are constructed through simulation

With the acceleration of the integration of the new generation of information technology and the real economy, the trend of industrial digitalization, networking and intellectualization is becoming increasingly obvious, which gives birth to a number of new models and new business forms of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, among which the digital twin is increasingly becoming the research hotspot of all sectors of the industry, with broad prospects for future development. Digital twinning is a multi-disciplinary, multi-physical quantity and multi-scale simulation process that makes full use of physical model, sensor update, operation history and other data, and completes the mapping of physical entity in virtual space, so as to reflect the whole life cycle process of physical entity.

When developing new products, enterprises can make digital twins in advance, and make various digital experiences of the products to be developed on the digital twins at a low cost, until the product state of production, assembly, use, maintenance and other stages are adjusted and verified to the best state in the digital space, and then the digital products are put into physical products, and the products are good and excellent. Digital experience based on digital twin is an extremely important contribution and supplement to industrial technology and a new technical means of product innovation.

(6) Awareness of intellectual property protection is growing

In recent years, the consciousness of intellectual property protection of Chinese enterprises has been strengthening continuously. From 2009 to 2021, the compound annual growth rates of patent applications, patent grants and computer software copyright registration reached 15.03%, 18.81% and 34.02%, respectively, all achieving rapid growth.
Promoting software legalization is an important measure to respect and protect intellectual property rights. Software legalization is an inevitable requirement for implementing the strategy of innovation-driven development and accelerating the construction of an innovation-oriented country. The Chinese government attaches great importance to the protection of software copyright, and has made software legalization a special work to promote it, gradually strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, vigorously crack down on various infringements, bring malicious infringements into the social credit system, and encourage innovation and creation.

Since 2001, the state has amended the Copyright Law and the Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software twice to continuously strengthen the protection of software copyright. On the one hand, it vigorously encourages and supports the development of domestic software enterprises, on the other hand, severely cracks down on all kinds of infringements of software intellectual property rights, purifies the software market environment, and vigorously promotes the use of genuine software. Great achievements have been made.

In the future, software legalization will continue to become the development trend of Chinese software industry, stimulate the vitality of research and development and innovation of software enterprises, promote the rapid development and growth of software enterprises, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of software industry.