With the continuous development of industry and manufacturing, hardware has gradually played an increasingly important role in various fields, shouldering the burden of product quality and experience, especially in European classic In the field of household hardware, there is a saying that "5% cost determines 85% experience". Therefore, many household brands that focus on quality and user experience have begun to look for hardware solutions, and even globally, they have collected excellent hardware brands.

However, there is still a long way to go between domestic hardware products and developed countries in terms of design and quality; If you want to go abroad for special ordering, you will spend a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate, compare, and follow up Home furnishing enterprises are not always easy to find high-quality hardware solutions. To sum up, household enterprises mainly encounter three types of problems on this road: simple problems, dilemmas, and thorny problems.

Solve simple problems: look for high-quality and well-designed hardware products

The so-called simple questions do not mean simple questions, but represent those questions that have clear directions, reassuring answers, and can be directly declared victory once solved. For household enterprises, finding high-quality and well-designed hardware products is the purest problem they need to solve.

High quality represents good quality, which determines the quality of household products; Design is to ensure the realization of the functions of household products and make them more beautiful. The combination of quality and design can be called "good hardware".

According to statistics, there are hundreds of household hardware brands in the Chinese market, but few enterprises can truly achieve both quality and design, especially domestic hardware products can enter the ranks of high-end products. Therefore, for domestic household enterprises with long-term ambitions, the simple problem to be solved is to quickly find product suppliers that can represent quality and design at the lowest cost.

Solve the dilemma: choose an imported brand or a domestic brand?

In addition to some simple questions with clear answers, household enterprises will inevitably encounter some dilemmas on the way to find excellent hardware suppliers. There is no only right direction for these problems, which is a dilemma. We must make a choice between the two directions.

"Is it a domestic brand or a foreign brand?"? It is a difficult problem for many enterprises. If you choose a domestic brand, other advantages are obvious. First, the cost is lower. Second, the product inspection is more convenient. In addition, the cooperation is controllable and the logistics transportation is convenient; The disadvantage is the low quality, design and grade of the product.

While choosing to import can obtain better product guarantee and brand endorsement, it also means paying a greater price: in addition to the obvious money, it also requires paying the labor costs of overseas study tours, communication costs and other potential risks in international trade.

More importantly, at present, more than 90% of high-end household appliances are equipped with foreign hardware. Therefore, some large domestic household enterprises have to use a large number of foreign hardware to adapt to the fierce market competition in the field of high-end household appliances.

Solve the thorny problem: one-stop purchase of more "smart" hardware accessories

We all know that hardware has a very rich category, including daily hardware, building hardware, tool hardware, home decoration hardware, and so on. However, the products of traditional household hardware enterprises are relatively simple. Even better brands often focus on only a few categories; More enterprises only make accessories and accessories for other manufacturing enterprises. They rely heavily on manufacturing enterprises and respond slowly to market demand.

As a result, when purchasing hardware accessories, finished product enterprises need to spend more manpower and material resources to do market comparison and purchase from different companies. What's more, the hardware products on the market often cannot meet the designers' imaginations. Hardware has become the shackles of home design, which is a thorny problem that needs to be solved urgently in the hardware industry.