2014 PLM market investment

2014 China mainstream PLM market up 11.75%

On CIMdata 2015 PLM Market and Industry Forum on April 17, Dr. Pei Huang, e-works CEO disclosed China PLM Market Development Report. Dr. Huang pointed out that facing with complex and volatile international environment as well as heavy and tremendous reform tasks, Chinese economy has overcome downward pressure and realized a 7.4% GDP growth, in which industrial added value has up 7.0% to 22.8 trillion RMB and manufacturing up 9.4%.

According to statistics from CIMdata and e-works, China PLM market in 2014 has a strong growth at 11.9% to $1,469 million dollars. China mainstream PLM market in 2014 up 11.75% to $944 million dollars compared to $845 million dollars in 2013. China PLM market share grows from 3.74% in 2013 to 3.95% in 2014.

2014 China Mainstream PLM Market Growth by Segments

License revenues account for more than a half at 50.8% of Chinese mainstream PLM market capacity in 2014. Revenues from Implementation takes 30.8%, upgrade and maintenance takes 163.6%, others including revenues from government, integration, training, consulting, etc. takes 4.8%.

In terms of segments, all sectors continued to grow last year. Simulation and analysis grows faster than overall tools. cPDm sector and CAD sector grow slower. Digital manufacturing and CAPP grows very quickly because of large demand. 2D-CAD sector grows slowly.

2014 Chinese mainstream PLM market composition

According to the forecast, China PLM market growth will keep a fast pace in next 5 years (2015-2019). The average compound growth rate in next 5 years is estimated to be 14.76%. The growth rate of Chinese mainstream PLM market in 2015 is estimated to be 14.3% and by 2019 the mainstream market will achieve $1.88 billion dollars.

China mainstream PLM market forecast (2015-2019)

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