The rise of nanometers

Time flies very fast when you are busy. With Lin Baijie, Huang Weichang and others watching, you don't need to do the chores in the company and factory yourself.

The liberated Huang Xiuyuan has not been idle these days. He and Lu Xuedong were discussing technical matters.

Although the laboratory he needs has not yet been completed, it does not mean that he cannot do things.

In terms of the software laboratory, engineers from Inspur Company have rushed over from Pengcheng and started to build a server group.

Now Lu Xuedong and he are busy building the company's official website and developing some practical small programs for use on internal computers.

In order to increase manpower, he also told Lin Baijie to recruit some graduates in computer programming, materials science, chemistry and polymer materials from this year's fresh graduates as intern employees for the company.

Huang Xiuyuan, who was busy writing software, referred to many foreign industrial design software.

For example, Autodesk Moldflow Adviser, as Autodesk's digital prototype solution, can conduct simulation evaluation and optimization of design plans before processing and manufacturing, reducing potential design errors, shortening the product development cycle, and reducing costs. Development costs.

Also produced by Autodesk Co., Ltd., AutoCAD software is an automatic computer-aided design software that can be used for drawing, two-dimensional drawing, and basic three-dimensional design. Through it, you can automatically draw without knowing programming.

Therefore, it is widely used around the world and can be used in many fields such as civil construction, decoration, industrial drawing, engineering drawing, electronic industrial clothing processing, etc.

PTC's Pro/Engineer operating software is an integrated CAD/CAM/CAE three-dimensional software.

Pro/Englneer software is famous for its parametric technology. It is the earliest adopter of parametric technology and occupies an important position in the current field of three-dimensional modeling software.

As a new standard in the field of mechanical CAD/CAE/CAM in the world today, it has been recognized and promoted by the industry. It is one of the mainstream CAD/CAM/CAE software, especially in the field of domestic product design in China, occupying an important position.

In addition to SolidWorks (developed by a subsidiary of Soda Corporation), Unigraphics NX (Siemens Company), Cimatron (Simeichuang Company), Mastercam (American CNC software company), CATIA (Soda Company), Delcam (Dakang Company), Edgecam (Path Company), etc., this series of industrial design software.

Using these software as a reference, and adding some of his own experience in industrial software later in life, a new industrial software platform was rewritten.

This new industrial software platform is equivalent to an industrial software library. It is quite difficult for him to write it alone.

At present, we can only "borrow" foreign software, use foreign industrial software as the master version, carry out secondary development, add many future industrial software programs, and make some improvements and optimizations.

Even many optimization plans are from these foreign companies. Huang Xiuyuan, who does not want to be stuck, directly adopts the principle of borrowing future optimization and improvement plans.

Anyway, if the other party has not developed it yet, he will take it out first and register the patent first when the time comes, which can achieve the effect of checking and balancing foreigners to a certain extent.

It's just that the current industrial software platform still has a long way to go. It's no problem to use it yourself. If you want to promote it, the patent barriers for foreigners are no joke. You will be slapped with a court summons every minute.

As for the idea of ​​ignoring patents, unless you have the ability to flip the table, it's better to be cautious.

The pieced together industrial software platform currently has a total of eight sub-softwares.

For two of the sub-softwares, because he is familiar with them and has participated in the design in the future, the current localization level has reached 27% and 22% respectively.

The degree of localization of other sub-software is very weak, only between 1% and 3% at most, and only the English version has been preliminarily Chineseized.

Huang Xiuyuan was not disappointed. When enough programmers and engineers were recruited, comprehensive localization of the software was an inevitable strategy he formulated.

Fortunately, software patents are not difficult to circumvent. Unlike hardware patents, many hardware have a lot of patents, many of which are fundamental patents that cannot be circumvented.

Although industrial software is different from ordinary civilian commercial software, Huang Xiuyuan is still confident that it can compete with foreign companies.

Generally speaking, as long as the patents with independent property rights account for about 30% of the total software patents, mutual exemption of patents can basically be achieved.

That is, companies of the same type use each other's patents, and both parties have reached a relative balance in patents and can only exempt the other party from using their own patents.

Similar to the relationship between Huawei and Qualcomm, on the one hand, they can curb each other's patent barriers, and on the other hand, they can reduce the cost of patent use.

Huang Xiuyuan plans to use this method to register a large number of patents and form a patent moat. Maybe he can, in turn, collect patent fees from the other party.

This is to follow other people's paths and leave others with nowhere to go.

In fact, in software technology, as long as you are determined and someone has the money, there is nothing impossible to replace it with localization.

If you look at the situation of commercial software, you can basically find a problem, that is, "referencing" in this industry has become a common practice.

Because of software patents, it is difficult not to be imitated, and it is also difficult to sue the other party for patent infringement because of the other party's imitation.

For example, suppose company A develops a software to implement a functional APP through AB+BB programming. On the other hand, company B sees that this software is good, so it asks programmers to use B+B+A+B. The APP has implemented almost the same functions.

Did Company B violate the patent law in this process?

The answer is: no.

Because functions cannot be patented, the part that can be patented is the way to realize the function, that is, technological innovation.

Software programming, unlike chemical materials, is not difficult to circumvent patents.

Perhaps industrial software patents have some patent problems, but they are only a little troublesome, not to the point of difficulty.

The real problem that restricts domestic industrial software is not a technical problem, but the software market and ecology.

Industrial software is different from commercial software. Industrial software is very closed, and developing industrial software requires considerable industrial design experience.

In this regard, Western countries have obvious first-mover advantages. By occupying the market and establishing a solid ecology, it is difficult for latecomers to intervene in this market.

Huang Xiuyuan planned to start a new business from the beginning, and naturally he would not forget the issue of industrial software.

If you don't use your own industrial software from the beginning and rely too much on foreign software and have to switch to it in the future, it will be a waste of time and energy.

Just as he was about to say something to Lu Xuedong, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

When I saw it was my father's phone, I looked up and saw that the clock on the wall stopped at around 4:42.

"Dad, I'll be there soon."

"You kid, I knew you forgot, drive slower."

After hanging up the phone, he hurriedly explained a few words and asked two bodyguards to drive to the urban bus station.

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