The hardware industry has developed rapidly. The most concentrated domestic market of traditional hardware industry is mainly concentrated in mechanical hardware, building hardware, decorative hardware and daily hardware. The trend of industrial concentration in hardware industry is also obvious. Domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong and other economically developed provinces and regions.
The products of traditional hardware enterprises are relatively simple, and many enterprises only make accessories and accessories for other manufacturing enterprises, which are highly dependent on manufacturing enterprises and slow to respond to market demand. Traditional hardware enterprises do not pay attention to the research and development of new products and the extension of the market, which leads to the lack of sustainable competitiveness of enterprises. Faced with more and more specialized market demand and fierce competition, many hardware enterprises that developed rapidly in the early stage felt powerless in the follow-up.
How to make enterprises have sustainable competitiveness is a topic that many hardware enterprises are thinking about. As a result, the concept of "big hardware manufacturing" is gradually mentioned by enterprises and experts in the hardware industry on various occasions, and the voice of integrating hardware-manufacturing industry is getting higher and higher. The hardware industry mainly changes the physical form of metal raw materials and processes and assembles them into products.
As long as it is an industrial field with metal parts assembly as the main process, it belongs to the hardware industry. If we extend the concept of hardware manufacturing to the whole manufacturing field, we should think about the development of hardware industry from the height of manufacturing industry.
The concept of "big hardware manufacturing" came into being: from the mining and refining of metal materials, to the manufacturing of primary metal products, to the manufacturing of general production equipment, and then to the manufacturing of special equipment in various industries of the national economy, this whole industrial chain can be called "big hardware manufacturing".
In areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Yongkang, Foshan, Zhongshan and other places in Zhejiang, traditional hardware production enterprises gradually realize the integration of forward and backward. Manufacturers that originally only produced hardware spare parts also set foot in the manufacture of large-scale mechanical equipment. Usually, enterprises in a region, from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing, have also achieved strategic integration among enterprises.
Hardware manufacturing enterprises also pay more attention to product research and development and technological innovation, and technological research and development also promotes the industrial upgrading of hardware enterprises. "Big hardware manufacturing" has become a common practice in industrial concentrated areas.
In fact, the transformation from small hardware to large hardware is the process from traditional hardware to modern hardware. The only choice is to rely on scientific and technological progress and take the road of rejuvenating the park and developing the industry through science and technology. How to integrate the resources of all parties in the hardware industry and make the hardware manufacturing industry more adapt to the development trend of economic globalization.
The information integration function of the Internet provides the possibility for industry alliance: the emergence of industry e-commerce platform provides a trading platform that can span space for many enterprises, and it has become a trend to sell their products through the Internet. In 2004, B2B accounted for half of the most valuable commercial websites in China, and hardware websites were among the best.