Hardware Industry Development Analysis

China has gradually become a major metal processing country and a big exporter in the world, and it has become one of the world's major hardware manufacturers with a vast market and consumption potential. Association Secretary-General Luo Baihui pointed out that with the development of society and economy, the hardware industry will also show new trends in the new situation. However, in the “12th Five-Year Plan” era of “greener and more earning money”, energy-saving and intelligent products As a result, hardware companies are aware of industry trends to go even further!

Hardware industry as a whole trend tool Hardware demand increases As China's status in the world continues to improve, more and more countries around the world began to use Chinese hardware products, to a certain extent stimulated the development of China's hardware products. In recent years, with the acceleration of the global economic integration process, the Chinese hardware tool processing industry has gradually become the main force of the world's hardware and tool industry. The demand for hardware tools in some developed countries, especially in Africa, the Middle East and other developing countries, is increasing at a rate of more than 10% per year. Hardware tools are labor-intensive industries. As a hometown of hardware, Yongkang has become a gathering place for hardware tools with low-cost traditional competitive advantages.

At the same time, the quality of hardware products will increase, and the requirements of international markets for China’s hardware products will gradually evolve and change. There will be higher requirements for the quality, packaging, and delivery terms of Chinese products, and even gradually extend to the production process and product development. Products are combined with environmental protection, energy resources, and the human environment. The huge market and central position attraction will further attract the hardware manufacturing center of multinational companies to transfer to China. The integration with foreign companies will continue to enhance the quality and competitiveness of Chinese hardware products. While continuing to expand markets in the United States, Japan, and other traditional countries, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Europe, and Africa will also fully blossom.

Capital Expansion Intensified After China's accession to the WTO, under the global environment of competition, in order to enhance competitiveness, industrial capital has become an important theme for the operation of the industry. In 2004, Supor and Vantage went on the market successively. Hongbao was also working hard for the listing. Wanhe's capital market operation will not stop due to the failure of restructuring with Yuemei. From a capital perspective, the current major feature is the expansion of capital.

The cooperation between enterprises is increasing. From the perspective of competitive behavior, the cooperation between resource sharing among enterprises is increasing. On the one hand, manufacturers have strengthened control over retail terminals, and strive to reduce sales links, save sales expenses, and make sales channels more professional. The corporate sales model is developing in a direction that can adapt to multiple markets at the same time. On the other hand, the development trend of the sales industry has led to the continuous rise of the status of large-scale home appliance chain stores, increased control over the industry, and participation in the price competition that was previously dominated by manufacturers. Large retailers, with their broad market coverage, purchasing scale, and cost advantages, will increasingly control the production companies in terms of product pricing, payment, and delivery. As a subordinate small and medium-sized enterprise, it will be in a disadvantageous position in the competition under this trend.

From the above point of view, the trend of increasing tool hardware requirements, hardware product quality, capital expansion, and cooperation between companies is not a bad thing for powerful hardware companies. When such large companies comply with this trend, The development trend will only gradually become stronger and bigger. For small and medium-sized hardware companies, there may be gaps in product quality, and there are relatively few opportunities for cooperation, let alone capital operations. Therefore, in the hardware industry continues to develop and progress, the survival environment of small businesses will become increasingly difficult.

The trend of hardware locks The current fierce market competition in the lock industry has shifted from simple price competition to competition in product quality. Most companies truly recognize the importance of product quality, thus strengthening the ability to implement standards and product quality. Testing capabilities, various representative laboratories and product testing centers have been established one after another, laying a solid foundation for improving the quality of China's lock products.

The first trend: concern for user experience and product humanization. From the application occasions of the products, user needs, and consumer habits, developers have conducted extensive and in-depth research on indoor locks in the existing market, combined with feedback from senior industry customers such as door factories, and conducted brand-new designs on lock body functions. To meet family needs.

The second trend is to pay attention to the integration of culture and personality in industrial design. There are a variety of lock hardware styles on the market, and there are many varieties of them. However, from the very beginning of the design, it is rare to include various cultural connotations as design concepts. The Yajie Hardware R&D team has been working on this exploration and experiment since a few years ago.

The third trend of locks and their hardware is that the rise of biometrics applications and the development of smart locks and smart hardware will jointly bring locks and hardware applications to a brand new height, and home intelligence will be possible in the near future. Enter the homes of ordinary people.

The third trend is that the rise of biometrics applications and the development of smart locks and smart hardware will collectively bring locks and hardware applications to a brand new height. Home intelligence will likely enter the homes of ordinary people in the near future.

At present, smart locks with high technological and scientific content, including password locks, IC card locks, fingerprint locks, etc., have gradually gained the recognition of high-end consumption in the market due to their unique convenience and gradual maturity of technology. And made a place. Fingerprint locks using biometrics technology have even broader market prospects due to fingerprints' uniqueness, non-replicability, portability, forgetfulness, and loss-free features.

The fourth major trend is to focus on product innovation and patent applications, enhance core competitiveness, and increasingly standardize the protection of intellectual property rights. Yajie has more than 200 patents and it is still increasing at a rate of about 25 each year.

The fifth trend is environmental protection, energy conservation and safety. The severity of environmental issues calls for more effective actions by responsible producers. Whether the product has passed the certification of the environmental system and occupational health and safety system; whether to gradually adopt environmental protection plating technology, reduce the use of cyanide, use 3+ chromium plating; whether to meet the standards of electroplating wastewater treatment and electroplating industry pollutant discharge, are manufacturers began to pay more attention to problem.

The sixth major trend is to emphasize the attention to product details, to improve product quality, to reflect consumer tastes from the details, and to reflect the understanding of product content.

The seventh trend is: companies pay more attention to quality and brand: the essence of a truly good brand is the crystallization of quality, durability, and continuous development; quality is the life of the company.

The eighth trend is a complete solution for locks and supporting hardware. At present, Yajie has formed a complete product line of five categories including intelligent door locks, building door locks, door hardware, and bathroom hardware. Yajie has always been focusing on the integration of hardware product application systems with locks as the core, architectural hardware and furniture hardware, and has always been committed to becoming an expert in the lock industry.

The general trend of daily hardware With the development of society and economy, the home cabinet hardware and daily use bathroom hardware industry are showing new trends in the new situation, and the corresponding products will show different characteristics. To protect the quality of decoration, more and more owners choose third-party supervision to serve themselves. In addition, the concept of energy conservation has become more and more popular, energy saving and environmental protection are still the new trend of daily hardware and sanitary products.

The concept of home cabinet hardware extension The future home cabinet will be used for meal production from a special kitchen. It has a series of furniture with storage and storage functions. It will be converted into storage, storage, washing, frying, frying and even dining, entertainment and learning. Functional furniture such as work. The entry of televisions, stereos, networks, and office equipment has changed the role of cabinets as a work tool. From a design point of view, modern kitchen design is gradually changing the traditional layout of cabinets and corner cabinets, and high-rise cabinets with larger storage space have become alternatives. The layout is also constantly changing. From the original L-shape and U-shape to the center of the kitchen, the cabinet is not surrounded by walls. There are islands at the center and the hydropower pipelines go underground. Kitchen equipment is also moving toward integration and integration. Cabinets, appliances, ceilings, etc. will be modularly integrated. Consumers need to select various modules according to their needs. Renovating kitchens is as simple as building blocks.

The concept of bathroom hardware products has far exceeded the traditional concept of the past. Bathroom hardware products, as a symbol of modern luxury life, it enters every aspect of people's lives. That is, not only health and cleaning functions, but also health care functions, enjoyment functions, and entertainment functions. In terms of the use of functions, only flushing methods of sanitary ware products have appeared in the form of rotary rush, silent type, slanting type, straight drop type, siphon type, and jet type. The shape of sanitary products has emerged as one-piece type, with basin series, one-piece type toilet, bidet, squat toilet, urinal, mop basin, column or table-washer. Sanitary ware products also introduced a series of ancillary products with leisurely baths, cabinets, steam rooms and other functions. Bathroom hardware products tend to be more humane, with more products and more options.

Energy saving and environmental protection is still the same as the new trend of daily hardware and sanitary ware development. Recently, the prices of water in major cities in China have risen. In addition, in recent years, the country has vigorously implemented energy conservation and emission reduction policies, and the concept of energy conservation has become more and more popular. In this regard, whether it is price regulation or propaganda and guidance, the concept of “water saving” has become more and more popular, and the large-scale household water-bathroom products have become the primary issue of water conservation. More consumers are more willing to choose energy-saving bathroom hardware. Products, but many product technologies do not meet the standards, then, consumers in the purchase of water-saving sanitary ware, try to choose well-known brands, to choose a "China Water Product Certification" products, quality will be more assured.

More and more owners choose third-party supervision to serve themselves because the third-party supervision and decoration company have no interest, so they will completely stand on the side of the owners. For the owners to consider, more and more owners will choose third-party supervision. Serve yourself. Although the decoration costs are more than partially paid for supervision, the supervisor will also supervise the decoration process according to the actual situation of the owner to avoid unnecessary additions and repeated billing. Overall, the cost may not increase, but the decoration quality It can be guaranteed again.

The trend of development of hardware molds The “12th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical period for China to properly respond to major changes in the domestic and international development environment and speed up the realization of the goal of building an overall well-to-do society. It is also a critical period for the healthy development of China's mold manufacturing industry. Domestic and foreign environmental uncertainties Although there are many, but China's economic development is still in a period of rapid growth, China's mold in the international mold market, the comparative advantage still exists, the domestic mold market is expected to continue to be optimistic about the development of the mold industry presents a major trend.

First, the mold is becoming larger and larger. This is due to the development of 'multiple cavities' due to the increasing size of mold parts and high production efficiency requirements.

The second is the higher and higher precision of the mold. Ten years ago, the accuracy of precision molds was generally 5 micrometers, and now it has reached 2 to 3 micrometers. Soon the mold with 1 micron precision will be on the market. This requires superfinishing.

Third, multi-functional composite molds will be further developed. In addition to punching and forming parts, the new multi-functional composite molds also carry out assembly tasks such as lamination, tapping, riveting, and locking, and the performance requirements for steel materials are also increasing.

Fourth, the proportion of hot runner molds in plastic molds has gradually increased. Since the hot runner technology can increase the productivity and quality of parts, and can greatly save the production of raw materials, the application of hot runner technology has developed rapidly in foreign countries. More than half of plastic molds produced by many plastic mold factories use heat flow. Road technology, some manufacturers use more than 80%, the effect is very obvious. Hot runner molds have also been produced in China, and some companies' usage rate has increased to 20% to 30%.

Fifth, with the continuous improvement and development of plastic molding technology, gas-assisted molds and molds that adapt to high-pressure injection molding and other processes will develop along with it. Such molds require good rigidity and high pressure resistance, especially the cavity of the precision mold should be quenched, the gate seal is good, and the mold temperature can be accurately controlled, so the performance of the mold steel is very strict.

Sixth, the application of standard parts will become increasingly widespread. The standardization of molds and the application of mold standard parts will greatly influence the mold manufacturing cycle, and it will also increase the quality of molds and reduce the cost of mold manufacturing. Therefore, the application of mold standard parts will be greatly developed during the '15' period.

Seventh, the prospect of rapid economical molds is very broad. Now is the era of multi-species and small-batch production. In the 21st century, this production method will account for more than 75% of industrial production. Thus, on the one hand, the product life cycle is shortened, and on the other hand, the pattern changes frequently, and the shorter the production cycle of the mold, the better. Therefore, the development of rapid and economical molds will attract more and more attention.

Eighth, with the development of lightweight products such as vehicles and motors, the proportion of die-casting molds will continue to increase. At the same time, the life expectancy and complexity of die-casting molds will also raise increasingly higher demands.

Nine is to further accelerate the process of plastic steel and plastic wood, and the proportion of plastic molds will continue to increase. At the same time, due to the continuous increase in the complexity and accuracy of mechanical parts, the requirements for plastic molds are also increasing.

Tenthly, the technical content of molds will continuously increase, and the proportion of medium and high-grade molds will continue to increase. This is also a change in the market trend of molds caused by product structural adjustments.