The usefulness of hardware

Traditional hardware products, also known as "little hardware". Refers to various metal devices made of iron, steel, aluminum and other metals through forging, rolling, cutting, and other physical processing. Such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily hardware, construction hardware and security supplies. Most hardware products are not final consumer goods. Instead, it is used as ancillary products for industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products, and tools used in the production process. Only a small part of daily hardware products are tool consumer goods that people must live with.

In the national economic industry classification of the National Bureau of Statistics, manufacturing is the third largest industry. These include: production of living materials, such as agricultural and sideline products, food and beverages, tobacco, textiles, clothing, leather, wood furniture, printing and sports supplies, and pharmaceutical manufacturing; production of production materials, such as petrochemicals, chemical fibers, rubber and plastics , non-metal product manufacturing, metal smelting and processing, metal product manufacturing, general equipment manufacturing, industry-specific equipment manufacturing, and transportation equipment manufacturing, electrical equipment, communications electronics, etc.

The related products in the classification of metal products in the manufacturing industry and general parts and components in general equipment manufacturing constitute the "hardware" in the usual sense. It can be seen that "little hardware" is not an existing industry category, but a cross combination of the above-mentioned metal products-hardware products. In the entire manufacturing industry, the responsibility of 'hardware' is to provide components and production tools to manufacturing enterprises, rather than as end-use industry-specific equipment. Nevertheless, we cannot deny the important role of "hardware" in the social production process: "hardware" and manufacturing are an inseparable whole intertwine with each other.