Before the advent of CAD software in the last century, designers relied on hand-drawn drawings to complete all their daily lives.

There was a saying in those days: one of the criteria for judging whether a person is a designer is to see if there is a mark of a table on his stomach.

The design of those days was very inefficient.

However, since the advent of industrial software in the eighties of the last century, designers finally do not need to complete the design of drawings by hand, but complete them on the computer, and the design efficiency has been greatly improved.

Nowadays, industrial software has become an indispensable software in the industrial industry, and it is indispensable for the research and development of aviation, shipbuilding, automobile and other products.

Many people may not know much about the industrial software industry, but in fact, industrial software can be divided into three categories according to its function, CAD (computer-aided design), CAE (computer-aided engineering), and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing).

These three software are indispensable software in today's industrial industry, and it is indispensable for the research and development of aviation, shipbuilding, automotive and other products.

To say that it is the jewel in the crown of industry, surely no one has an opinion.

At present, these three types of software commonly used by enterprises are basically monopolized by the United States, France, and Germany, especially in the field of CAE, and the United States is a hegemon.

In the field of CAD, Dassault France's CATIA and Siemens' UG are the threshold that the automotive industry can't bypass!

Nanshan Group uses CATIA extensively for the design of auto parts and complete vehicles.

Boeing, Airbus, Ford, Volkswagen, Dyck, BMW, Volvo, Peugeot Citroen, Toyota, Honda, Renault, Fiat, Mitsubishi Motors, Bosch, Hyundai, Kia and other automotive industry companies are also using CATIA.

The price of genuine CATIA is very expensive, not to mention the cost when purchasing, even the annual maintenance fee is not cheap.

Many engineers of Nanshan Group need to use this software, and the annual contribution to Dassault is more than 100 million yuan in software fees.

In China, as long as it is paid software, there must be a corresponding market for pirated software.

Especially before 2011, many pirated software were still relatively easy to download.

Although Nanshan Group never encourages the use of pirated software, there are cases where individual business divisions sometimes use some pirated software after purchasing some genuine software in order to save money.

And this time, the bad news is related to pirated software.

"Mr. Cao, Dassault sued us, saying that some of our employees used pirated CATIA and asked us to claim 13.34 million yuan for economic losses, and asked us to complete the payment within one month, otherwise it will affect the use of other genuine software."

Liu Youmei was a little depressed, and came over with Xiang Wei, the minister of justice, to report to Cao Yang about a new problem she had just encountered.

Over the years, Nanshan Group has not been without lawsuits, and even now it is still arguing with people in the United States.

But in past lawsuits, even if there is no certainty of victory, at least you can still work hard.

This time it's a little different.

She consulted with the legal department, but there was no chance of victory on her side.

"Haven't we been using genuine CATIA?"

The company is so big, Cao Yang obviously can't worry about everything.

But he has the impression that the company's budget has various software purchase costs.

That's why I asked.

"It's true that genuine CATIA is being used, and most of them are genuine."

"However, due to the rapid increase in our R&D personnel in the past two years, the expenditure on software expenses has also increased significantly."

"So there are some business units where individual employees use pirated software."

"In particular, some business units allow employees to use their own computers to work, which makes the use of pirated CATIA more obvious."

In front of Cao Yang, it is natural to truthfully explain the situation clearly, otherwise it will be bad if it is misjudged.

So Liu Youmei didn't hide anything and told the actual situation.

"So Dassault didn't wronged us this time?"

Cao Yang's face was cloudy.

Domestic industrial software is not good, and he is not impressed by this matter.

However, there are too many pain points, and Cao Yang's focus was not here before.

Now that something has happened, the situation is naturally different.

"Mr. Cao, if you want to fight a lawsuit, there is no hope of winning."

"And when the time comes, public opinion will be very unfavorable to us, and the potential losses will be much greater than these claims."

Xiang Wei directly expressed her prediction next to her.

This made Cao Yang extinguish his tossing thoughts.

"Find a way to reconcile with them."

After Cao Yang said this, he asked Mi Ying to call Rao Yongxiang and the others over.

This loss, there is no way but to eat it now.

However, this kind of loss must not be eaten forever.

Industrial software, an area that is easily overlooked and has not been taken seriously, wants to take on a challenge.

Soon, a special meeting was held within the Nanshan Group.

"Mr. Cao, can't we develop industrial software ourselves? This question has been asked by countless Huaxia engineers in their hearts. ”

"Yes, in fact, it is possible, but this is not something that can be completed in a few years, or even more than ten years."

"If you just develop an app like Penguin, or develop an enterprise-level software similar to Kingdee for financial management, it is at most an application of network programming and database interaction, and no programmer needs to have other knowledge."

"But this is not the case with industrial-grade software, where the program element not only needs to master the most basic programming skills, but more importantly, the cross-integration of multiple disciplines."

"The development of industrial software, many people may think that it is a computer professional thing, but in fact it is really not a computer professional thing."

"Industrial software is based on mathematics and runs through the interdisciplinary disciplines of physics, chemistry, mechanics, materials science and many other fields."

As soon as Rao Yongxiang heard that Cao Yang was going to discuss his own industrial software development with everyone, he immediately had a big head.

It's a huge pit!

A huge pit with huge investment, but not necessarily results!

The key is to develop industrial software like CATIA now, and that's just the beginning.

If all the industrial software used by Nanshan Group were developed by itself, it would be unrealistic at all.

So many central and state-owned enterprises in China dare not touch the big pit of industrial software, but Nanshan Group, a private enterprise, wants to hit the wall hard, Rao Yongxiang is obviously not very supportive.

"What Mr. Rao said is indeed reasonable, let's take software like CATIA as an example, because the software is used by engineers who draw engineering drawings professionally."

"Therefore, programmers who develop industrial software must know the knowledge of engineering graphics."

"For example, basic projection knowledge, to integrate this knowledge into the code, through the computer to display on the screen, you need computer graphics knowledge."

·“ Take CAE software as an example, you need the software to be able to calculate the fatigue limit and life of the designed part, which requires knowledge of material mechanics. ”

"If you do an airflow analysis of a designed car, it involves knowledge of fluid mechanics, and of course the software also needs to calculate various parameters of fluid dynamics, which requires solving a lot of partial differential equations, and it involves mathematical knowledge."

"The essence of industrial software is to write formulas of various disciplines such as mechanics and mathematics into code in the form of algorithms."

"If there is no specific formula in academia at the moment, then it is up to the developers to derive the formula themselves."

"It's a bottomless pit, and you don't know when you're going to get results."

"The difficulty of any industrial software is no less than that of our HONOR system."

Dai Hanbiao is also a little worried about the independent development of industrial software.

No one dares to step on this pit.

Of course, he hopes that industrial software can be localized, but few people think that this is an achievable goal.

"There is a characteristic of the software industry, that is, the first to have meat to eat, and the later ones can't even drink soup."

"Industrial software is different from general mobile phone software, it requires no mistakes at all, once there is a problem in any link, the loss is incalculable."

"But as long as the software is bound to have bugs, in order to eliminate these bugs, a large number of users must act as 'guinea pigs' for feedback testing."

"But if a piece of software itself has a small number of users, how can the software vendor get feedback from users to fix the vulnerability?"

"So, this creates a phenomenon of 'the strong get stronger, and the weak get weaker'."

Rao Yongxiang said a little sadly.

This is a winner-takes-all market, and it is too difficult for Nanshan Group to get a ticket.

"Everyone makes sense, it is precisely because of these problems in industrial software that China has always been very weak."

"But someone has to do it."

"There are actually a lot of talents in basic disciplines in China, but these talents often can't find a stage to give full play to their abilities."

"We now have a large number of engineers in our group, many of whom have computer backgrounds."

"The number of software developers in the intelligent network center is about to exceed 10,000."

"I plan to set up a new business unit in the Intelligent Connectivity Center, which will be responsible for the development of industrial software."

"At the beginning, we started from our own needs, with the goal of five years, to develop a working CAD software and a working CAE software."

"This division is called the Industrial Software Division, and at the beginning of its establishment, 1,000 people were transferred from various places."

"The follow-up can continue to recruit people according to the plan, and there is no cap!"

As soon as Cao Yang said this, Rao Yongxiang, Dai Hanbiao and others opened their mouths, and finally did not say any more objections.

The boss is not afraid to spend money, and if they oppose such a meaningful thing, they can't say it.

When it comes to software development, the most important investment is labor costs.

If you are really willing to spend money, then it is not impossible to develop a working CAD software and a working CAE software in five years.

It's just that after the software is developed, how to make it really usable will be a problem.

"Mr. Cao, if everything starts from scratch, it may take a lot of time."

"I think we can consider acquiring and recruiting some domestic teams engaged in industrial software."

"Although there are not many achievements in this area in China, there are still some people in some colleges and universities who are engaged in industrial software."

"There is even a company called Yangcheng Zhongwang in Yangcheng, which specializes in CAD software, and it is also well-known in the industry."

"I don't think you just arranged for someone to buy them?"

Since the boss wants to engage in industrial software, everyone naturally has to brainstorm and start thinking about how to implement it.

Dai Hanbiao, who has always been a dissupporter of industrial software, has also begun to change his tone.

It's not that he really has so soft bones that he casually changed his attitude.

It can only be said that the discussion process and the implementation process of one thing have different views.

"I have also heard of this company in Yangcheng Zhongwang, and it has been established for many years, and it is indeed possible to consider acquiring it."

"In addition, Huazhong University of Science and Technology has in-depth research on mold forming software, and we can consider cooperating with their team, and even recruit some people."

Rao Yongxiang also put forward some suggestions of his own.

"I heard a statement when I was talking to a customer before, and I didn't know if it was accurate."

Although Zeng Tingting is not engaged in technology, Cao Yang also called her over for a meeting today.

Everyone was brainstorming, and she naturally couldn't keep silent.

"If you ask which company in the world has the most code, many people might say Microsoft, IBM or Google, but in fact none of these are any."

"In terms of the amount of code alone, the largest software company in the world is the American arms dealer giant - Lockheed Martin."

"And most of the software they make is only for their own use, and they don't sell it to the outside world."

"Therefore, I think that Mr. Cao's establishment of the Industrial Software Division, with the platform of our entire Nanshan Group, even if these software are not sold to the outside world in the future, it can actually support the development of these software."

"After more than ten years, these software are very mature, and what promotion measures we need to take, the initiative is completely in our own hands."

Zeng Tingting's words made everyone's eyes shine.

Although she is not talking about technical issues, she is more important than technical issues.

She gives everyone confidence in the development of industrial software!

In the face of a huge pit, faith is sometimes more important than anything else.

"Industrial software is the programmatic packaging and reuse of industrial technology and knowledge, and it is the top product of industrialization."

"In the future, when recruiting R&D engineers, test engineers and quality engineers, our various business divisions can consciously tilt towards software engineering and computer-related majors."

"After working in other industries for a few years, if these people are assigned to develop industrial software, it can often be more effective than directly recruiting IT personnel to develop software."

What Cao Yang wants to do, then it must be done.

So far, there have been no exceptions.

To a certain extent, this is also related to Cao Yang's prestige in Nanshan Group.

Now that the Industrial Software Division has been established, it is necessary to develop software that can replace CAD/CAE such as CATIA and ANSYS in the future.

This time could be a little longer, and he can afford to wait.

After all, it's only 2011.

Although industrial software is as important as chips, it has received much less attention.

Therefore, the time left for Nanshan Group to develop industrial software is still relatively long.

As long as a similar version comes out within five years, it will take another five years to continuously improve.

In the end, ten years of sharpening a sword, when the time comes, it will definitely be able to give everyone an unexpected surprise.

"The biggest cost of developing software is the labor cost, and we have a very big advantage in this regard."

"The labor cost of those industrial software giants in Europe and the United States may be five or ten times that of ours."

"Even if our industrial software division has 10,000 employees, the average annual salary is hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is billions of investment a year."

"According to the group's current profitability, it is not a problem to free up billions of dollars every year."

Dong Shengnan, Minister of Finance, also stood up to express his opinion.

Although she is not a software professional, the things that Cao Yang values are the things she values.

The more people feel that there are difficulties and worries, the more she has to stand up and express her confidence.

Otherwise, how could she, the head of the finance department, have always been so stable?

"Minister Dong is right, the number of college graduates last year has gone to 6.3 million."

"Basic human resources are not a problem for us, although the development of industrial software cannot be simply done with crowd tactics."

"But an experienced veteran engineer and a few programmers form a development team together, and finally play to everyone's strengths."

"I think it's not impossible to get a few pieces of industrial software."

"If you can't get 10 billion, it's 100 billion, and if you can't do it, then 20 billion."

"A few more years of investment will definitely have an effect."

Cao Yang's words are really not blowing water.

The main reason why there is no industrial software in China for so many years is that the input and output are disproportionate.

When you don't have it, people may get stuck.

But once you have it, people will immediately jump out and suppress you.

You can't get a new piece of software that surpasses anyone else's.

As a result, a lot of industrial software dies just after it was born.

But Nanshan Group is different.

The boss is determined to do it, not afraid of spending money, and not worrying about no one to use it.

After all, Nanshan Group's own use needs are very wide.

By the time the software is developed, the number of engineers who need to use software like CATIA must have reached the tens of thousands.

With so many people using it, all kinds of bugs are easy to find.

After a few years of accumulation, even if there is still a gap with predecessors such as CATIA and UG, you can take it out for a walk.

As long as the price is attractive enough, it is not very difficult to get suppliers in the industrial chain to use it when the time comes.

At that time, it can even use the power of the administration to let all state-owned enterprises follow suit.

Cao Yang believes that this is not impossible.

With this meeting of Nanshan Group, various departments immediately took action.

The initial team of 1,000 people in the Industrial Software Division was also quickly formed.

And the acquisition of Yangcheng Zhongwang is also progressing very quickly.

Becoming a part of the Nanshan Group is an existence that most migrant workers have no way to refuse.

The boss of Yangcheng Zhongwang is naturally very aware of this.

If he does not agree to the acquisition, Nanshan Group directly arranges for headhunters to poach the employees below, and he has no way.

Even this method of operation is more cost-effective than outright acquisition.

Therefore, after the initial contact with Nanshan Group, Yangcheng Zhongwang very simply invested in the arms of Nanshan Group and became a subsidiary of Nanshan Group.

After having a deeper understanding of Yangcheng Zhongwang, Cao Yang directly merged the industrial software division under the Intelligent Network Center into Yangcheng Zhongwang.

Huaxia's largest industrial software manufacturer is officially born.

More than ten years later, this series of actions has even become an important node in the development of Huaxia's industrial software industry, which is remembered in history.

Of course, that's all for later.

And these actions of the Nanshan Group naturally can't be hidden, and there is no need to hide them.

(End of chapter)