Will smarter industrial software make engineers unemployed?

If one day, industrial software for enterprise applications can automatically turn engineers' ideas into sketches, plus structure, 3D modeling, simulation verification, and even processing methods, will there be a large number of R&D engineers unemployed?

Fortunately, this is just an imagination, it will not happen for the time being. However, “machine substitution” has been implemented for many years, and the promotion and application of automation and intelligent equipment, as well as manual replacement including robots, are also constantly occurring – technological advances have made the change of traditional positions inevitable, and engineers may need to plan ahead.

Smarter industrial software will improve work efficiency, such as 3D design software, while simplifying workloads. PTC's newly released 3D design platform Creo 6.0, one of which is “Generation Design”, uses AI, software can automatically generate 3D models of different processing methods, and perform real-time simulation analysis, compared to hours or days before. It only takes a few minutes now.

 

Industrial software gain

Ma Yun has said that cloud computing has become an infrastructure. So, ten years ago, industrial software began to move toward the cloud. Today, cloudization no longer needs to be mentioned, but industrial software must integrate other emerging technologies.

For some time, other technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, IoT, and AR have begun to accelerate integration with other industries, industries, and even the IT industry itself. Industrial software is no exception. From CAD, PLM to ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, etc., after the realization of cloudization, we will explore the road of new technology integration.

Application software or embedded software involved in digital design, digital manufacturing, and digital management are collectively referred to as industrial software. Among them, the necessary engineering platform for digital world such as 3D CAD and computer virtual simulation CAE is the core component of industrial software.

For the manufacturing industry, the ultimate goal of digitalization and networking is to be intelligent and intelligent. There are two types, one is digitalization and intelligence from research and development to manufacturing and production, that is, digital factories, and the other is intelligence. Product. In both directions, digital design is inseparable.

The software defines everything. As the main path and embodiment of the new global industrial revolution, the development of intelligent manufacturing, Internet of Things, and industrial Internet has made the importance of industrial software with digital design as its core more prominent.

The integration of industrial software with next-generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and IoT will definitely change the industrial software itself. The only question is, what does this mean for industrial software service providers and software users?

Digital value chain

Creo's predecessor was the 3D design software Pro/E, which is one of the world's largest installed digital design software. In China, PTC Pro/E, Dassault Systèmes CATIA, Siemens NX and domestic digital design software camps such as CAXA, Zhongwang, Anshi Asia Pacific, etc., are in the world. The ThingWorx Industrial Internet Platform is another product of PTC.

In addition to incorporating new AI, Creo 6.0 also extends augmented reality (AR), additive manufacturing (3D printing) design, and IoT capabilities. The function changes and the application changes.

For example, if a second generation wants to buy a Porsche 911, Porsche will recommend the second generation to download an AR Visualizer app in the Apple Store. Through the 911 model of the app, you can change the 911 configuration at will, change it to what you want, and simulate Drive to achieve personalization.

Also, you may have bought a new home, you need to configure home appliances, through a home appliance business app, you can compare the size of the home appliance with the reserved location, or you can match the furniture to the floor color to find the best solution.

Very cool. This is something that manufacturing companies are dreaming about. This kind of front-end application, behind the industrial software, but it must open the enterprise's full value chain to achieve, which requires a platform through which the enterprise forms a digital value chain, like an invisible data river, enterprise product development , manufacturing, operations, services and other links are all running through. When the customer's needs change, the company can guide the R&D through the platform, and the R&D changes and guides the manufacturing, and the manufacturing change guidance service.

Liberation R&D Engineer

Product development is the core of the company's strategy, especially pre-research, of course, that is the apex. More R&D engineers are concentrated in the middle or on the base, but I believe they also have a brave heart, hoping to simplify transactional, repetitive work, or to do more creativity. Industrial software that incorporates next-generation information technology such as AI will probably allow more engineers to flash creative talent.

For example, previous simulations usually span departments, and the iteration cycle and process are complex, and it takes several hours to get one result. With the new simulation features of industrial software, you don't have to draw a grid. Just add the conditions and get the results in minutes. In the case of smart interconnect products with sensors, test and operational data can be returned to the software platform at any time to drive the iteration of the 3D model. There are also AR, 3D printing functions, all bring new experience in research and development.

Gone are the days when you are proficient in a set of software that can last a lifetime. After 90, 00, the pursuit of happy work debut.

In 1985, at the beginning of its establishment, PTC released the world's first parametric modeling CAD software. In 1998, PTC acquired CADDS5, the leader in 3D modeling of aeronautical ships. In 2001, Winchill, the design management platform, was released. In 2003, the first browser version, Pro/E (wildfire), was released. Acquisition of Mathcad in 2006 and acquisition of direct modeling CoCreate in 2007. In 2010, PTC integrated a single-point platform and released the open CAD platform Creo1.0. Until now, Creo has added new functional buttons such as IoT, 3D printing, AI modeling and so on.

Why integrate a lot of single point technologies into one platform? Chen Limin, PTC's pre-sales manager, believes that single-point technology means data silos, and users need to constantly cross software, which leads to long processes and data distortion. The Creo platform solves all of these problems. Its greatest value is to provide designers with the greatest freedom to promote their design innovation.

Product development

It is undeniable that your mobile phone, watch, bicycle, car, rice cooker, air conditioner, etc., some have been on the cloud, and some are on the road to the cloud. The product became systematic because the cloud. If you want to change your mobile number, you will be very painful.

You are very vigilant and do not like this situation, but have been unable to change. New generation information technologies such as the Internet and big data continue to drive the factory forward. Isn’t the automaker Volkswagen a computer company? With the convergence of the body, chassis, and interior, Volkswagen has to tap into its capabilities, user experience, and data-driven driving experience. The scary thing is that everyone is doing this.

This is innovation, and differentiation is found in homogenization. If there is no new fusion technology, the "popular" is probably "awkward."

Nowadays, the new product launch time of the consumer has only been a few months, which means that the company needs to constantly self-reject and challenge itself to surpass the opponent. Some people say that the manufacturing smile curve has failed, misleading China's manufacturing, and this problem is handed over to the market.

One of the cores of high-quality manufacturing development is the continuous introduction of higher quality products or services, which requires high-quality product development. R&D engineers, are you ready, eliminated, or upgraded?

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Will smarter industrial software make engineers unemployed?

If one day, industrial software for enterprise applications can automatically turn engineers' ideas into sketches, plus structure, 3D modeling, simulation verification, and even processing methods, will there be a large number of R&D engineers unemployed?

Fortunately, this is just an imagination, it will not happen for the time being. However, “machine substitution” has been implemented for many years, and the promotion and application of automation and intelligent equipment, as well as manual replacement including robots, are also constantly occurring – technological advances have made the change of traditional positions inevitable, and engineers may need to plan ahead.

Smarter industrial software will improve work efficiency, such as 3D design software, while simplifying workloads. PTC's newly released 3D design platform Creo 6.0, one of which is “Generation Design”, uses AI, software can automatically generate 3D models of different processing methods, and perform real-time simulation analysis, compared to hours or days before. It only takes a few minutes now.

 

Industrial software gain

Ma Yun has said that cloud computing has become an infrastructure. So, ten years ago, industrial software began to move toward the cloud. Today, cloudization no longer needs to be mentioned, but industrial software must integrate other emerging technologies.

For some time, other technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, IoT, and AR have begun to accelerate integration with other industries, industries, and even the IT industry itself. Industrial software is no exception. From CAD, PLM to ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, etc., after the realization of cloudization, we will explore the road of new technology integration.

Application software or embedded software involved in digital design, digital manufacturing, and digital management are collectively referred to as industrial software. Among them, the necessary engineering platform for digital world such as 3D CAD and computer virtual simulation CAE is the core component of industrial software.

For the manufacturing industry, the ultimate goal of digitalization and networking is to be intelligent and intelligent. There are two types, one is digitalization and intelligence from research and development to manufacturing and production, that is, digital factories, and the other is intelligence. Product. In both directions, digital design is inseparable.

The software defines everything. As the main path and embodiment of the new global industrial revolution, the development of intelligent manufacturing, Internet of Things, and industrial Internet has made the importance of industrial software with digital design as its core more prominent.

The integration of industrial software with next-generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and IoT will definitely change the industrial software itself. The only question is, what does this mean for industrial software service providers and software users?

Digital value chain

Creo's predecessor was the 3D design software Pro/E, which is one of the world's largest installed digital design software. In China, PTC Pro/E, Dassault Systèmes CATIA, Siemens NX and domestic digital design software camps such as CAXA, Zhongwang, Anshi Asia Pacific, etc., are in the world. The ThingWorx Industrial Internet Platform is another product of PTC.

In addition to incorporating new AI, Creo 6.0 also extends augmented reality (AR), additive manufacturing (3D printing) design, and IoT capabilities. The function changes and the application changes.

For example, if a second generation wants to buy a Porsche 911, Porsche will recommend the second generation to download an AR Visualizer app in the Apple Store. Through the 911 model of the app, you can change the 911 configuration at will, change it to what you want, and simulate Drive to achieve personalization.

Also, you may have bought a new home, you need to configure home appliances, through a home appliance business app, you can compare the size of the home appliance with the reserved location, or you can match the furniture to the floor color to find the best solution.

Very cool. This is something that manufacturing companies are dreaming about. This kind of front-end application, behind the industrial software, but it must open the enterprise's full value chain to achieve, which requires a platform through which the enterprise forms a digital value chain, like an invisible data river, enterprise product development , manufacturing, operations, services and other links are all running through. When the customer's needs change, the company can guide the R&D through the platform, and the R&D changes and guides the manufacturing, and the manufacturing change guidance service.

Liberation R&D Engineer

Product development is the core of the company's strategy, especially pre-research, of course, that is the apex. More R&D engineers are concentrated in the middle or on the base, but I believe they also have a brave heart, hoping to simplify transactional, repetitive work, or to do more creativity. Industrial software that incorporates next-generation information technology such as AI will probably allow more engineers to flash creative talent.

For example, previous simulations usually span departments, and the iteration cycle and process are complex, and it takes several hours to get one result. With the new simulation features of industrial software, you don't have to draw a grid. Just add the conditions and get the results in minutes. In the case of smart interconnect products with sensors, test and operational data can be returned to the software platform at any time to drive the iteration of the 3D model. There are also AR, 3D printing functions, all bring new experience in research and development.

Gone are the days when you are proficient in a set of software that can last a lifetime. After 90, 00, the pursuit of happy work debut.

In 1985, at the beginning of its establishment, PTC released the world's first parametric modeling CAD software. In 1998, PTC acquired CADDS5, the leader in 3D modeling of aeronautical ships. In 2001, Winchill, the design management platform, was released. In 2003, the first browser version, Pro/E (wildfire), was released. Acquisition of Mathcad in 2006 and acquisition of direct modeling CoCreate in 2007. In 2010, PTC integrated a single-point platform and released the open CAD platform Creo1.0. Until now, Creo has added new functional buttons such as IoT, 3D printing, AI modeling and so on.

Why integrate a lot of single point technologies into one platform? Chen Limin, PTC's pre-sales manager, believes that single-point technology means data silos, and users need to constantly cross software, which leads to long processes and data distortion. The Creo platform solves all of these problems. Its greatest value is to provide designers with the greatest freedom to promote their design innovation.

Product development

It is undeniable that your mobile phone, watch, bicycle, car, rice cooker, air conditioner, etc., some have been on the cloud, and some are on the road to the cloud. The product became systematic because the cloud. If you want to change your mobile number, you will be very painful.

You are very vigilant and do not like this situation, but have been unable to change. New generation information technologies such as the Internet and big data continue to drive the factory forward. Isn’t the automaker Volkswagen a computer company? With the convergence of the body, chassis, and interior, Volkswagen has to tap into its capabilities, user experience, and data-driven driving experience. The scary thing is that everyone is doing this.

This is innovation, and differentiation is found in homogenization. If there is no new fusion technology, the "popular" is probably "awkward."

Nowadays, the new product launch time of the consumer has only been a few months, which means that the company needs to constantly self-reject and challenge itself to surpass the opponent. Some people say that the manufacturing smile curve has failed, misleading China's manufacturing, and this problem is handed over to the market.

One of the cores of high-quality manufacturing development is the continuous introduction of higher quality products or services, which requires high-quality product development. R&D engineers, are you ready, eliminated, or upgraded?