Hardware Industry Development Needs Informatization Construction

The hardware industry is a discrete, process-assisted manufacturing industry. The production process is mainly metal processing and component assembly. Hardware manufacturing mainly includes: rough casting, stamping manufacturing, and mechanical processing. The processing links include casting, forging, heat treatment, raw material division, wire bending, turning, milling, planing, grinding, or sheet metal forming. A wide range of hardware products, different specifications. At present, there are more than ten types of hardware products in the hardware products market. Including: locks, handles, doors and windows hardware, home decoration hardware, plumbing hardware, architectural decoration hardware, tools, bathroom hardware, kitchen hardware. Due to the wide variety of materials, the combination of different sizes, colors, and specifications has caused certain difficulties in material management.

Hardware manufacturing industry is an industry with strong discrete characteristics. Every day in daily operations often encounters the obstacles of traditional manual management. The market is in the fierce competition that the user demand changes constantly, the hardware enterprise that the small batch produces wants to deal with the customer that the various changes are comfortable and easy to talk about? A good production plan is made to increase production flexibility in order to adapt well to changing market requirements.

First of all, hardware companies generally follow the order of production, product structure is complex, parts and many outsiders, self-made, both traditional manual management can not rationally optimize the scheduling. The workload is so heavy that the information data of various departments is difficult to be unified and shared. It is impossible to control the delivery date scientifically and reasonably and directly affect the delivery of documents.

Second, there are many outsourcing parts in hardware manufacturing companies and many foreign manufacturers involved. The traditional way of manual management, follow-up control of the product quality, price and reputation of the foreign manufacturers, as well as the procurement department's control over the advance purchase volume. To ensure that neither mistaken production nor inventory backlog, to ensure a most reasonable degree of capital occupation, is a headache for hardware companies.

Once again, hardware products have long manufacturing cycles, many processes, and abnormalities (involving rework, scrapping, disassembling, feeding, replacing, buffering materials, etc.) and large inputs. They need to track their production processes and perform cost analysis. In addition, during the production process, customers may temporarily insert orders according to market changes at any time. This is not predictable by hardware manufacturers. Manual management is difficult to meet the changing requirements of customer orders. Only after the orders are confirmed can they be included in management. Sometimes the order status has changed, but it has not been able to respond immediately, causing confusion in production and management.

Therefore, it has become a priority issue for decision makers in various hardware companies to embark on informationization.

According to statistics, China currently has more than 10 million SMEs, accounting for 99% of the total number of enterprises in the country; the value of products and services created by SMEs also accounts for more than 50% of GDP.

With the advent of the information age, information technology has injected new momentum for small and medium-sized enterprises. The rapid development of some small and medium-sized enterprises in Wenzhou with the help of informatization has also stimulated the informationization needs of the local area and has become a success in the informationization of small and medium-sized enterprises. Has obvious characteristics.