Do you know the history of the hardware industry?

Hardware industry development speed is very fast, the traditional hardware industry the most concentrated several pieces of domestic market mainly in mechanical hardware, architectural hardware, decorative hardware, daily hardware these big blocks. The trend of concentration in the hardware industry is also obvious. At present, the domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in economically developed provinces and regions such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, and Shandong. Traditional hardware companies have a relatively single product. Many companies only do accessories and accessories for other manufacturing companies. They are more dependent on manufacturing companies and respond very slowly to market demand. Traditional hardware companies do not pay attention to the research and development of new products and the extension of the market, resulting in the lack of continuous competitiveness of the company. In the face of more and more specialized market demand and increasingly fierce competition, many hardware companies that have developed rapidly in the early stages feel follow-up. Inability.

How to make enterprises have sustained competitiveness is a subject that many hardware companies are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "hardware manufacturing" has gradually been mentioned by companies and experts in the hardware industry on various occasions, and the demand for the integration of the hardware-manufacturing industry has become increasingly high. The hardware industry is mainly through the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembly to become products. As long as it is a metal component assembly as the main process of the industrial sector is the category of the hardware industry. If we extend the concept of hardware manufacturing to the entire manufacturing field and think about the development of hardware industry from the perspective of manufacturing industry, This led to the concept of "hardware manufacturing": from the processing of metal materials to the manufacture of primary metal products to the manufacture of general-purpose production equipment, and then to the manufacture of special equipment for various industries in the national economy, this entire industrial chain of production activities. It can be called "big hardware manufacturing."

In recent years, in areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Zhejiang Yongkang, Guangdong Foshan, Shenzhen Mouli, Zhongshan and other places, traditional hardware manufacturers have gradually achieved forward and backward integration. Originally only manufacturers of hardware spare parts were also involved in the manufacture of large-scale machinery and equipment. In general, enterprises in a region have also achieved strategic integration among enterprises from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturers also pay more attention to product R&D and scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological R&D has also promoted the industrial upgrading of hardware companies. "Big hardware manufacturing" has become a popular trend in industrial concentration areas.

In fact, the transition from hardware to hardware is the process of changing from traditional hardware to modern hardware. The only choice is to rely on scientific and technological progress to take the path of scientific and technological development. How to integrate the resources of various parties in the hardware industry, so that the hardware manufacturing industry more adapt to the development trend of economic globalization? The information integration function of the Internet provides the possibility for the industry alliance: the emergence of the industry e-commerce platform has provided many companies with a trading platform that can cross space, and the use of the Internet to sell their own products has become a trend.