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Sungrow’s PhD Talk Introduces the “Value Evolution Theory”

SHANGHAI, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On June 12th, Sungrow hosted a special PhD Talk session at the SNEC PV Power and ESS Expo 2025 in Shanghai. Centered around “Evolving Value, Intelligent Future”, this session explored breakthrough strategies for navigating the cyclical nature of the energy industry and redefining its future through innovation. Sungrow’s PhD talk aims to share valuable industry insights and highlight the concrete initiatives the company has undertaken.

Value-Driven: A Paradigm Shift in the PV Industry

Once considered a supplementary power source, PV—especially when combined with energy storage—is now emerging as a primary energy solution. However, this exponential growth has also intensified the mismatch between power generation and grid capacity, underscoring the urgent need for integrated solar storage systems.

Sungrow introduced its forward-looking Solar Storage Value Evolution Theory, highlighting a shift from cost-based competition to system-level value optimization. The company has redefined inverter technology through five key pillars: All-Day Cost Efficiency, All-scenario Reliability, All-Link Safety, All-Life Smart O&M, and All-Grid Forming—collectively known as the 5A Fusion Solution.

This approach is embodied in Sungrow’s newly launched 1+X 2.0 Modular Inverter and high-power string inverter, both developed under the 5A framework.

“The rules have changed,” said Dr. Nianan Pan, Chief Expert of Sungrow Utility PV Inverter BU. “We’ve moved from a sprint based on cost-per-component to a decathlon focused on holistic system value.”

Sungrow’s legacy of innovation—from launching the industry’s first 1500V inverter to the modular split-type inverter—demonstrates its long-term commitment to driving a system-wide value revolution.

Energy Storage Enters a New Phase of Platformization

In 2024, global energy storage installations surged by nearly 90%. As the market rapidly expands, it’s also undergoing a structural transformation. Diverse regional demands and application scenarios have made one-size-fits-all solutions increasingly obsolete.

Dr. Zhuang Cai, General Manager of Product Management Center at Sungrow’s Energy Storage BU, emphasized that global storage demands are becoming more diverse due to differences in regions and applications. This makes single standardized products inadequate for meeting the varied needs across multiple regions and scenarios. Energy storage has entered an era of diverse value, making “platformization” a necessary approach.

With nearly two decades of technical expertise and global project experience, Sungrow unveiled the PowerTitan 3.0 Energy Storage System Platform. This next-generation platform integrates core technologies in electrochemistry, power electronics, and grid support to create modular, reconfigurable clusters tailored to specific needs. It is further supported by five robust platforms: full-chain testing, intelligent manufacturing, panoramic simulation, panoramic testing, and global application data, forming a closed-loop system of “Simulation-Manufacturing-Validation-Innovation”. Dr. Cai stressed that true platformization goes beyond just modularizing products; it involves a deep accumulation of technology, products, and data. Sungrow is leading the industry into this new era with foundational technology, modular products, and extensive data, aiming for comprehensive optimization of safety, performance, cost, and lifecycle. This approach is redefining the core of energy storage, strengthening the energy foundation, and offering customers more reliable, safe, intelligent, efficient, and agile services.

“Under our ‘Grid to Cell’ philosophy,” said Priank Cangy, Sungrow’s Overseas Grid Model Manager, “we’re enabling platforms that respond dynamically to real grid events, offering the flexibility, reliability, and maintainability customers expect today.”

Solar and Storage Integration: The Key to Navigating Market Cycles

As solar storage integration accelerates and competition intensifies, Sungrow sees innovation and system optimization as the twin engines for progress. The company is focused on maximizing Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) efficiency, enhancing grid support capabilities, and ensuring long-term project profitability.

Sungrow’s leadership is anchored in four strategic advantages:

• 28 Years of Deep Industry Expertise
• “Triple-E” Technology Foundation (Power Electronics, Electrochemistry, Electrical Grid Support)
• Rich Data Assets Enabling Technical Moats
• An Innovation Flywheel Driving the Shift from Product Maker to Ecosystem Builder

In the uncharted territories of global energy transition, Sungrow is charting a bold new course—using technology as the pen and system value as the ink—to redraw the blueprint of clean energy integration. From PV to storage, from devices to full ecosystems, this is not just a technological revolution but a transformation of the industry’s value paradigm—from scale expansion to value co-creation.

Looking Ahead: From Scale to Sustainability

Patrick Zank, Global Director of Renewable Energy at VDE, emphasized the importance of comprehensive capabilities for future success: “The industry must cultivate deep technical understanding, system-level optimization, and the ability to build closed-loop ecosystems that deliver lasting value.”

Sungrow’s vision is to lead this next phase of the clean energy revolution—not only by manufacturing world-class products but by shaping the standards of tomorrow and building a bridge to a sustainable future. Stay tuned for the next edition of PhD Talk!

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GUANGZHOU, China, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ZWSOFT, a trusted provider of all-in-one CAx solutions, announced the release of ZW3D 2026, the latest annual update to its flagship 3D solution. Informed by feedback from over 2,800 users worldwide, this version brings several significant enhancements.

ZW3D 2026 introduces more specialized tools for general machinery design, enabling users to solve complex, industry-specific challenges with enhanced precision. It also offers faster performance and a smoother user experience. Upgraded data conversion and 2D–3D collaboration features improve workflow continuity across formats and platforms. New modules—such as CFD Simulation and ZWTeammate—further strengthen the platform as a fully integrated 3D CAD/CAE/CAM/Collaboration solution.

Together, these advancements reflect ZWSOFT’s commitment to empowering end-to-end product development through a unified, intelligent design environment.

Tailored Enhancements for General Machinery Design

For manufacturers in general machinery, design precision directly affects product performance and durability. A long-time ZW3D user—an industry-leading CNC machine tool maker—struggled with time-consuming modeling of lead screw threads. Because traditional flag threads couldn’t meet simulation requirements, engineers had to create real threads manually—taking over 10 minutes per part and often leading to errors.

ZW3D 2026 solves this with real-thread modeling and a built-in library of standardized slot features. Engineers can now generate accurate, simulation-ready threads in seconds—even for custom specifications—boosting fatigue life prediction accuracy from 75% to 95% and cutting modeling time by over 90%.*

Complex sheet metal design for consumer products is often significantly influenced by industrial styling demands. While stylists strive to create visually appealing forms, their frequent changes can complicate downstream engineering. Structural engineers must repeatedly revise detailed layouts, making manual conversion time-consuming and error-prone.

ZW3D 2026 now renews one-click conversion from solid models to sheet metal parts, with associative updates that reflect any design changes. Engineers also benefit from new specialized features such as cutouts, louvers, and embosses, simplifying the creation of complex sheet metal structures. In real production cases—like appliance enclosures—overall design time has been cut by up to 50%.*

Smarter and Faster Design Workflows

A precision machine tool manufacturer working with ZWSOFT set out to develop more than 7,500 parts in three months, where efficiency was key to success. Assembly and motion analysis accounted for 35% of the workload, with component selection and installation consuming significant time. Preparing models for motion simulation added further complexity.

To address these issues, ZW3D 2026 introduces intelligent fasteners, copy with constraints, smart constraints, and smart mirror, enabling batch installation and one-click conversion of assembly constraints into simulation joints. These upgrades led to a 50% improvement in assembly efficiency*, reducing component installation from two full days to just one hour.

Once 3D design is complete, standardized 2D drawing output becomes a major bottleneck—especially in the non-standard equipment sector, where it can consume up to 30% of the total project cycle. In one case, a team of 40–50 engineers produced nearly 10,000 drawings per month, with most engineers handling 10–20 drawings per day. The bulk of their time was spent on 3D view projections and manual dimensioning, frequently leading to long hours and inconsistent results.

To streamline this workflow, ZW3D 2026 enhances AI-powered tools for automated drawing generation and intelligent annotation. Engineers can define templates and standards once, then batch-generate dimensions and insert preconfigured process tables with ease—reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across outputs.

Software performance has also seen significant gains. In a 150,000-part factory layout project, model loading time has been reduced from one minute to 47 seconds*, and drawing view projection from five minutes to one, thanks to the optimized projection engine in ZW3D 2026.

To further support daily productivity, in its latest version, ZW3D enhances the user experience with new micro-panel interfaces, a data-driven workspace, and AI-powered command prediction—all designed to help engineers stay focused and move faster throughout the design process.

Seamless Interoperability and 2D–3D Integration

CAD models are long-term digital assets, encapsulating a company’s design intent and process knowledge. As organizations adopt new design platforms, the ability to migrate and reuse legacy data becomes essential. With robust parametric modeling and feature recognition capabilities, ZW3D 2026 leverages the upgraded IPX 2.0 engine to enable accurate, feature-level data exchange across mainstream CAD formats—achieving over 90% conversion accuracy for SolidWorks files and 85% for Creo files—ensuring smooth collaboration in multi-software environments.

To further boost productivity and design consistency, ZW3D 2026 introduces Associative Updates to Sync 2D Drawings With 3D Models. In many small and mid-sized enterprises, 3D modeling is still followed by manual 2D drafting—a process that often results in duplicated effort and data mismatches. With this new integration, any change made to a 3D model can now automatically update the corresponding 2D drawings, improving accuracy and eliminating repetitive redrawing. 

This feature has already delivered measurable results. In one injection molding project, the customer iterated over ten times using ZW3D for modeling and ZWCAD for detailing. Previously, each update required manual revisions to multiple drawings and up to four hours of rework. With the latest version, the same updates take just three minutes, thanks to real-time 2D–3D synchronization.

Advancing Integrated CAx to New Heights

With ZW3D 2026, ZWSOFT continues to expand its capabilities as a unified design and engineering platform. The addition of two new modules—CFD Simulation and ZWTeammate—further enhances ZW3D as a fully integrated CAD/CAE/CAM/Collaboration solution.

CFD Simulation Now Integrated Seamlessly

ZW3D 2026 now includes native CFD Simulation-Phoenics, allowing engineers to perform fluid and thermal analysis directly within the design environment. This integration eliminates the need for external tools and streamlines validation early in the design process.

ZWTeammate for Intuitive and Efficient Engineering Collaboration

ZWTeammate enables seamless collaboration and efficient data management within the ZW3D platform. From task coordination and revision tracking to controlled data publishing, it helps teams stay organized and aligned—all within the design environment.

Together with the enhanced CAM module, these new modules reinforce ZW3D’s mission to unify design, simulation, manufacturing, and collaboration—improving productivity across the entire product development journey, from conception to production.

ZW3D 2026 Marks a Major Milestone

ZW3D 2026 brings focused enhancements for general machinery design, intelligent tools for greater design efficiency, improved data interoperability, and deeper 2D–3D integration—all geared toward addressing real-world engineering needs.

With this release, ZWSOFT continues to advance its strategy of delivering a fully integrated CAx solution centered on ZW3D—unifying design, simulation, and manufacturing to empower more streamlined and intelligent product development.

For more details and to enjoy a 30-day free trial, please visit ZWSOFT’s website: https://www.zwsoft.com/product/zw3d

About ZWSOFT

Since 1998, ZWSOFT’s all-in-one CAx (CAD/CAE/CAM) solutions have helped professionals bridge the gap between concept and creation. By uniting design, simulation, and manufacturing in one integrated platform, we empower architects, engineers, and designers to streamline complex projects at a fair price. This approach accelerates development cycles and minimizes costs without compromising quality.

Over 1.4 million users in 90+ countries—including 149 Fortune 500 corporations—trust ZWSOFT’s 25+ years of expertise to drive innovation. Whether it’s pioneering product design in manufacturing or delivering advanced solutions in the AEC sector, we remain dedicated to turning ambitious ideas into reality and empowering sustainable innovation worldwide.

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DUBAI, UAE, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, released a new options volatility report in collaboration with Block Scholes. The report shows a historic volatility divergence between Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) during May 2025.

Key Highlights:

• In May 2025, ETH options exhibited historically high volatility premiums over BTC, driven by ETH’s elevated realized volatility during a major price rally.
• The ETH-to-BTC implied volatility ratio for short-dated options surged past 2x — reaching a nearly five-year high.
• BTC’s realized volatility fell below a long-standing 35% floor, breaking a 19-month trend.
• ETH’s volatility term structure showed persistent inversion, with shorter-dated options pricing higher volatility than longer-dated ones.
• The implied volatility divergence coincided with ETH’s outperformance, which included a 23% intraday rally amid key market events.

ETH-to-BTC Implied Volatility Expands to Five-Year High

In May 2025, a notable dislocation in implied volatility emerged between ETH and BTC options. Implied volatility reflects market expectations for future price movement over an option’s lifespan. At the start of the month, the ETH-to-BTC implied volatility ratio for 7-day options hovered around 1.5 — indicating that ETH options were priced with 50% higher expected volatility than BTC options.

By May 16, the ratio climbed above 2x, reaching a peak not seen since 2020, as BTC’s implied volatility declined to its lowest levels since October 2023. This drop in BTC volatility broke below the 35% floor that had held for over 19 months, while ETH‘s short-tenor implied volatility remained elevated, though slightly below its May 10 high. The volatility spread was particularly pronounced in the 30-day tenor, reaching its widest point since mid-2022.

Realized Volatility Trends Underscore the Divergence

The sharp divergence in implied volatility was reinforced by trends in realized volatility — a measure of actual historical price movement. In May, ETH‘s realized volatility significantly outpaced BTC’s across various tenors, fueling expectations for continued dispersion between the two assets.

On May 15, the 7-day realized volatility ratio between ETH and BTC peaked, closely followed by the implied volatility ratio — suggesting market participants expected ETH‘s higher volatility to persist. This trend is not new: the ETH-BTC volatility ratio has been climbing steadily since July 2024, amid both bull runs and periods of market stress.

ETH‘s standout performance in May was catalyzed by several factors, including positive US-UK trade news. ETH surged more than 23% on May 8 alone and continued to outperform BTC, which gained approximately 10% during the same period. Despite this momentum, ETH remained over 50% below its January 2025 peak and its all-time high.

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About Bybit

Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 70 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.

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