Hardware products include what?

Hardware: traditional hardware products, also known as "small hardware". Refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin five kinds of metal. Artificial processing can be made into knives, swords and other works of art or metal devices. In modern society, hardware is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily-use hardware, construction hardware and security products. Most small hardware products are not final consumer goods.

Hardware industry in the development of the national economy has played an inestimable role, hardware products have also become an indispensable industrial segment of industrial manufacturing.

Rather, they are used as supporting products for industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products, and tools used in the production process and so on. Only a small portion of daily-use hardware products are necessary for people's lives as tools for consumer goods.

In the National Bureau of Statistics National Economic Industry Classification, the manufacturing industry is ranked in the third largest category of industries. This includes: the production and manufacture of means of living.

For example: agricultural and sideline products, food and beverages, tobacco, textiles, clothing and leather, wood and furniture, printing and sporting goods, and pharmaceutical manufacturing, etc.; means of production manufacturing, such as: petrochemicals, chemical fibers, rubber and plastics, non-metallic products manufacturing, metal smelting and processing, metal products manufacturing, general-purpose equipment manufacturing, manufacturing of special equipment for the industry, as well as the manufacture of transportation equipment, electrical equipment, communication electronics and so on. and communication electronics and so on.

And the manufacturing of metal products and general equipment manufacturing in the general parts and components and so on in the classification of the relevant products are composed of the usual sense of the "small hardware". Thus, 'small hardware' is not a pre-existing industry categories, but several metal products - hardware products cross combination.

And in the manufacturing industry as a whole, 'hardware' is responsible for providing parts and tools to manufacturing companies, not as end-use industry-specific equipment. Nevertheless, we can not deny the important role of "small metal" in the social production process: "small metal" and manufacturing industry is intertwined in the inseparable whole.