want to test out one of the industrial cloud services offered by the China/Singapore based company HollySys but don’t see how to create an account on a site accessible outside of China. Anyone have any suggestions? I’d like to test out either the effectiveness of available apps or how to develop new apps to see how it compares to similar solutions like Mindsphere by Siemens.

My Chinese is terrible but I think they offer the HiaCloud platform for process automation and Hollicube for discrete automation (intelligent facilities/plants). But they might be the same thing? The documentation makes them seem like they’re identical but they have separate websites and associations with different HollySys subsidiaries. Also, even though HollySys has a HQ in Singapore, I only see its cloud platform being offered by the large China cloud providers, ie, Alibaba/Aliyun, Huawei, and China Azure (maybe?). I’ve listed the related HollySys websites below and you can easily search for the Alibaba, Huawei, and China Azure sites.

www.hollysys.com
www.hiacloud.com (and .com.cn and .net.cn)
www.hollicube.com (and .com.cn and .net.cn)DJKSN