Hello,
We see in Europe that "our factories," made the same clean, leave or are gradually closed for various reasons such as "overcapacity", "incremental cost social "compared to Asia or the markets simply disappear. Examples of the Total refinery in Dukerque or factory GM Strasbourg well wake fears of deindustrialization ... but fear can be countered by a re-industrialization thought acting differently ... at least if one leaves the possibility.
Here is a line of thought of re-industrialization:
A factory is an industrial object tangible (land, buildings, equipment ...).
The plant became a "generic concept" as "tangible". One can easily imagine that a plant performs: consumer goods, raw materials processed ... The plant and its products are tangible goods.
When we speak of software, software services is much more difficult to define the good or service involved. And yet they come out yet factory or more specifically software factories ...
Facing the challenge of mastering certain concepts related to "software" can make the analogy between a factory and a "software factory" producing "software services" to offset the intangible side difficult to control and exploit.
Investing in a "software factory" can be likened to invest in a "factory" because there is a share of the wealth creation of tomorrow with the software services produced by these software factories !
How can we otherwise anticipate the effect of recycling batteries for new electric cars produced by the Bolloré Group , manage industrially-term car park for free services such City Rolls' and reduce the ecological footprint transport or secure digital confidence professional actors working in teams so scattered around the world? That's grace and through software factories that can ensure the exchange of information, manage data, being a "trusted third party" ...
Services provided by Google or Amazon Web Services , the concept of industrial platform Microsoft Azure cloud computing or cloud computing or private or even SaaS (Software as a Service) are only examples of issues related to software factories by technical approach.
Explain the issue of software, software services this way is needed ... and full commitment by modestly Kosciusko-Morizet during Digital Focus, by AFDEL (The French Association of Software Publishers) and the Minister of Economy Ms. Lagarde.
It is also necessary that the economic fabric and in particular allow financial, focused on axes, to allow this industrialization. There is major issues to be addressed concretely in everyday life and not just at the level of strategic thinking.
Jean-Michel Davault
Auditor IHEDN
Some items / links of additional thoughts:
1. The field of Micro-Electronics: a case study of the problem "Globalization - Innovation - Deindustrialisation" -> Report National Assembly
2. In France there are a cluster supported by Dassault system on a way to deal with "the software factory " It is also necessary that SMEs can have sufficient resources to participate.
3. Working Paper of the Directorate General of Treasury and Economic Policy (DGTPE) on the de-industrialization in France
4.Désindustrialisation: The decline of industrial employment in the economy is a fact [Mr. William Thibaut on LesEchos.fr]
