Hardware industry development speed is very fast, the traditional hardware industry domestic most concentrated several pieces of the market mainly concentrated metal blade stamping parts in mechanical hardware, building hardware, decorative hardware, daily hardware these major sections. The trend of industrial concentration in the hardware industry is also obvious, and the domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong and other economically developed provinces and regions. Traditional hardware enterprise products are relatively single, many enterprises only to other manufacturing enterprises to do supporting, accessories, the dependence on manufacturing enterprises is relatively strong, and the response to market demand is also very slow. Traditional hardware enterprises do not pay attention to the development of new products and the extension of the market, resulting in the lack of sustainable competitiveness of enterprises, in the face of more and more specialized market demand, more and more fierce competition, many early rapid development of hardware enterprises are weak follow-up.

How to make the enterprise have sustainable competitiveness, is a lot of hardware companies are thinking about the topic. As a result, the concept of "hardware manufacturing" has gradually been mentioned by enterprise personnel and experts in the hardware industry on various occasions, and the call for the integration of the hardware manufacturing industry has become increasingly high. The hardware industry is mainly through the change of the physical shape of metal raw materials, processing and assembly and then become products. As long as the industrial field is based on the assembly of metal parts as the main process, it belongs to the category of hardware industry. If we expand the concept of hardware manufacturing to the entire manufacturing field, from the height of the manufacturing industry to think about the development of the hardware industry, the concept of "hardware manufacturing" is born: From the mining and processing of metal materials to the manufacturing of primary metal products to the manufacturing of general production equipment, and then extended to the manufacturing of special equipment in various industries of the national economy, the production activities in this entire industrial chain can be called "hardware manufacturing".

In areas where the hardware industry is concentrated, such as Zhejiang Yongkang, Guangdong Foshan, Zhongshan and other places, traditional hardware production enterprises have gradually realized forward and backward integration. Manufacturers that originally only produced hardware spare parts are also involved in the manufacture of large machinery and equipment. Usually, enterprises in a region also realize the strategic integration of enterprises from raw material processing to spare parts supply to finished product manufacturing. Hardware manufacturing enterprises also pay more attention to product research and development and scientific and technological innovation, scientific and technological research and development also promote the industrial upgrading of hardware enterprises. "Hardware manufacturing" has become a common trend in industrial concentration areas.

In fact, the transformation of hardware to hardware is the process of transforming traditional hardware to modern hardware, and the only choice is to rely on scientific and technological progress, take the road of science and technology, science and technology industrial development. How to integrate the resources of all parties 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 for the alliance of the industry: the emergence of the industry e-commerce platform provides many enterprises with a trading platform that can cross the space, and the use of the network to sell their own products has formed a trend. In 2004, China's most commercially valuable business website, the industry B2B occupied most of the Jiangshan, the hardware industry website is among the best.