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Li Ziqiang waved his hand, "Don't worry, just listen to me. In fact, at present, research and development basically determines 80% of the quality of the entire production."

"The implementation of this PLM system has the most obvious effect on improving the R&D and production quality of Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group, but it is relatively expensive."

"How much?" Chen Tao asked curiously, and then he added: "Also, I know PDM. What is the difference between PLM and PDM?"

Li Ziqiang smiled. This was his professional field.

He said: "PDM, Product Data Management, is product data management, as the name suggests. It was the most popular R&D management software before the 21st century."

“PLM, Product Lifecycle Management, is a product lifecycle management system. Before the 21st century, only a few companies with foresight used it for R&D management.”

"As far as I know, it is rarely used in the West, and only large groups in Hong Kong use it. In recent years, it has begun to be widely recognized. For example, Huaguang, Wanwei, Huada Automobile, etc., they used it relatively early."

"What is the specific use of this thing?" Chen Tao asked.

Li Ziqiang said: "Through the implementation of PLM solutions to manage product R&D and design, we can standardize the product development process and shorten the development cycle."

“We can achieve integrated data management from product concept design to process and manufacturing, sales, after-sales service, product delisting, etc.”

"We can also effectively reduce R&D costs and significantly improve R&D efficiency through R&D collaboration. The direct costs saved here are in the billions, and the benefits created are in the hundreds of millions every year!"

"This thing is very expensive. Our Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group implemented it five years ago, and the software alone cost more than 3000 million RMB."

"There is also the construction of the entire R&D system, which is more expensive. As for the companies that they implemented earlier, it is expected to be even more expensive."

"But in general, it is expensive for a reason!"

"To be honest, it's really expensive!" Chen Tao smacked his lips!

Before Li Ziqiang could speak, Gao Shengli said, "Of course. Huaxin's PLM is the most powerful R&D management tool in recent years. It is much better than Siemens and Dassault, which are not well adapted to local conditions."

"Two years ago, we also invited Huaxin's consultants to provide us with a plan and quotation. At that time, the software cost reached 1500 million, even though it was not a complete set of modules."

"This does not include the cost of building the R&D system. If we add the cost of organizing, building, and improving the R&D system, it is estimated to be more than 5000 million!"

Li Ziqiang nodded. "Almost. We invited Huaxin to be a consultant to build the entire R&D system of Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation. The direct cost was 5 million yuan."

"Isn't this too expensive?" Chen Tao was shocked!

Li Ziqiang shook his head. "This is still cheap. In 1998, Huawei hired IBM to assist in building its R&D system, and it directly spent $30 million! That's billion!"

"Looking at it this way, it's really a lot cheaper." Chen Tao changed his tone.

Gao Shengli smiled and said, "Don't even mention 5 million. My company's net profit is less than million a year. I couldn't afford to build a research and development system then. Now, to be honest, I still want to build one, but I just can't afford it."

Peng Wanhua smiled and said that R&D is the core of a technology company.

Not to mention now, even twenty years later, the R&D of many companies with revenues of over 10 billion will still be a mess.

After all, not every company has the foresight and ambition to make changes like Mr. Ren.

As for non-leading enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, they may not even invest in lightweight PLM of one or two million.

Many companies that boast about their impressive R&D capabilities actually gain market competitiveness by exploiting labor and reducing employee costs.

In order to further save costs, some companies are reluctant to even hire regular workers, and most production employees only hire temporary workers who do not have social security coverage.

Gao Shengli is still very ambitious and hopes to continue to make the company stronger.

Thinking of this, he looked at someone.

"Old Peng, you either invest in us or find a strong investor for me, otherwise this business of mine may end in this lifetime."

Gao Shengli knew that the company had bottlenecks.

He felt that he had reached this bottleneck.

To further improve, we need more powerful investors and capital operations to achieve a breakthrough.

He was well aware of Peng Wanhua's potential and felt that only he could bring him improvement.