The history of metal
2021-06-25
The hardware industry is developing very fast. The most concentrated markets in the traditional hardware industry are mainly in mechanical hardware, construction hardware, decorative hardware, and daily hardware. The trend of industrial concentration in the hardware industry is also significant. At present, the domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in economically developed provinces and regions such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, and Shandong. The products of traditional hardware companies are relatively single, and many companies just make 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, facing more and more specialized market demand, more and more fierce competition, and many hardware companies that have developed rapidly in the early stage All felt weak in follow-up.
How to make the company sustainable is a topic that many hardware companies are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "large hardware manufacturing" is gradually being mentioned by the hardware industry companies and experts on various occasions, and the call for the integration of the hardware-manufacturing industry is also increasing. The hardware industry is mainly through the change of the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembly to become products. As long as the industry field is the main process of assembling metal parts, it belongs to the category of the hardware industry. If we expand the concept of hardware manufacturing to the entire manufacturing field, and consider the development of the hardware industry from the height of the manufacturing industry, the concept of "large hardware manufacturing" will emerge from this: from metal material mining and processing to the manufacture of low-grade metal products To the manufacturing of general-purpose production equipment, and then expand to the manufacturing of special equipment for various industries in the national economy, the production flow in this entire industrial chain can be called "big hardware manufacturing."
In recent years, in areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Zhejiang Yongkang, Guangdong Foshan, Shenzhen Modile, Zhongshan and other places, traditional hardware production companies have gradually realized forward and backward integration. Manufacturers that originally only produced hardware spare parts are also involved in the manufacture of large-scale machinery and equipment. Usually, companies in a region have also achieved strategic integration from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing companies also pay more attention to product research and development and technological innovation, and technology research and development has also promoted the industrial upgrading of hardware companies. "Big hardware manufacturing" has become a common practice in industrial concentrated areas.
In fact, the transformation of small hardware to large hardware is the process of transforming traditional hardware to modern hardware, and the only choice is to rely on technological improvement, take the road of science and technology development, science and technology development. How to integrate various resources in the hardware industry to make the hardware manufacturing industry more adaptable to the development trend of economic globalization? The information integration function of the Internet provides the possibility of industry alliances: the emergence of industry e-commerce platforms has provided many companies with a trading platform that can span space, and the use of the Internet to sell their products has become a trend. Among the most valuable trade websites in China in 2004, industry B2B accounted for more than half of the country, and hardware industry websites were even among the best.
