The future of the lock market

In the globalized and integrated market economy environment, China's hardware lock industry is also facing fierce market competition. Especially in the context of the financial crisis and the economic crisis sweeping the world, the market competition is fierce, and the price competition is more violent. How do small and medium-sized enterprises in the hardware lock industry find a way out? How to survive in the competition is a place for urgent research and improvement.

In recent years, China's hardware lock industry has developed at a rate of 15% per year, with an annual output value of more than 180 billion yuan and exports of more than 8 billion US dollars. It accounts for about one-third of China's total light industry exports, ranking the top three in light industry. It is understood that at least 95% of China's hardware industry is now a private enterprise, and private enterprises have become the main force in the development of China's hardware lock industry. On the other hand, in the international hardware lock market, developed countries in Europe and the United States have turned ordinary products into production in developing countries due to the rapid development of production technology and rising labor prices, producing only high value-added products, and China has a strong market labor force. It has become a processing and exporting country in the hardware lock industry. Among the many hardware lock enterprises in China, the survival and development of small and medium-sized private enterprises has become the key to the healthy development of the industry.

Significance of research

The main significance of the research is: First, understand the origin and development of the industry, and study the prospects and alternatives of the industry development. Second, research has made the small and medium-sized enterprises in the hardware lock industry out of the vicious circle of vicious competition and seek healthy development of the industry. Orderly competition in the industry will improve the maturity of the industry, promote industrial upgrading, and improve the management level and product level. Vicious competition will only bring the industry into death, making a traditional national industry decline. Third, it will make many SMEs in the industry have stepped out of the dilemma of business difficulties, improved management decision-making levels, rationalized competition strategies, improved competition levels, and maintained the status of national industries in the global market.

Research methods and main content

From the origin and history of locks, look at the development of the lock industry; from the current environment of the lock industry, look at the main strategy of industry competition. The main method of research is to analyze the characteristics of SMEs in the hardware lock industry by using the principles of strategic management, global management, marketing management and management economics, find out the correspondence between competition strategies and related factors, find survival and development strategies, and form concrete feasibility. Sexual proposal.

Lock is a product of security precautions. This is well known. Its variety is varied, its grades are disparate, and prices are different. China's lock industry is still in a very backward state, and the average selling price of locks is also very low. For the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries 1/15. In foreign countries, usually the price of the lock is more expensive than the door, because the lock is the heart of the door. At present, the development of new varieties of locks abroad is very active. Many new materials, new technologies and new processes are constantly applied to the lock industry. Locks are breaking through the commonly used mechanical bullet lock mode and evolving toward safer electronic locks. Although many advanced locks are constantly coming out, they have not solved the invisible problem. All the locks are installed, some parts are exposed outside the door, the possibility of the lock being destroyed is inevitable, and the safety problem is always threatened.

Due to the development of sound, light, machine, electricity and magnetism, the design of the locks has also undergone great changes. In 1974, the United States successfully researched six electronic lock circuits (extracted from Electronics magazine) to call this lock an electric lock. ).

In 1985, the lock industry in the United States and Japan accounted for 10% of the sales of electronic locks in the sales of electronic locks. The Japanese lock industry began to develop electronic locks. Since 1985, the development of the world's electronic lock production has been surging. The international lock industry, represented by the Yale Lock Factory in the United States, the Xisha Group in Europe, and the Dome Company in West Germany, has developed ten electronic card locks. A variety of electronic locks.

In the early 1990s, there were also nine manufacturers of electronic locks in China, but all of the electronic lock structures produced by these manufacturers were copied or slightly modified along the roads of European and American locks. The locks can still be opened with keys or mounted on the doors. The external cipher is turned on. In short, we have not stepped out of our country’s own road to breaking the rules. In our country, the "Gang Shangjunzi" who slams the door, for those locks, there will soon be a way of deciphering, and the thieves can still break into the door.

The door is a barrier to protect family property. The lock must overcome two shortcomings: one is that a certain part of the lock is exposed outside the door, and the thief is provided with the target of deciphering; the second is that the lock tongue is too short to stop the thief from breaking the door with violence. In view of the two insurmountable shortcomings of the general locks, after years of painstaking research by the patentee, the intelligent invisible lock was finally born in 1992. Its main feature is that no locks are visible inside or outside the door, and there is no keyhole on the door. The installation position of the lock can not be found, and the lateral static pressure of the lock can reach tens of thousands of Newtons. This makes the thief not able to break the target and break through the door. The security of the portal is guaranteed, and the worries of people when they go out are relieved. .

The future of locks

The history of locks can be traced back to the wooden locks that appeared more than 5,000 years ago. After centuries of development, in the long years, with the continuous development and progress of human society, the use and scope of locks have also expanded. Forcing people to pay attention to the development of lock production, and many inventions on the locks have also made the lock industry flourish and made positive contributions to social civilization.

The lock series products currently produced in China mainly include padlocks, ball locks, bicycle and motorcycle locks, industrial locks, car locks, train locks, locks for torture instruments, craft memorial locks, locks for hotels and hotels, and thousands of varieties. It constitutes the existing lock system in China.

With the rapid development of science and technology, especially the wide application of microelectronics bioinformatics in various industries, the lock industry is developing in the direction of high technology content and strong security and confidentiality. In the late 1980s, the lock industry ushered in a new development period, developing a beautifully shaped, mechatronic lock that adapts to the development of other industries and people's living needs. It is a gradable management and magnetic card with the function of “black box”. Advanced smart locks such as TC cards and TM card locks.

The development of locks is progressing in the future, locks are innovating and changing, and future locks are a necessity in life and a protector of safety. Although the market is now quite mature, it can be foreseen that it will be an undefeated industry. . At the same time, with the development of electronic technology and living technology, although the functions of use are constantly improved, the main body of mechanical parts will always exist. Therefore, the lock industry should not only study the application of new technologies, but also constantly study the constant changes of traditional mechanical locks.

China's lock industry status and environmental analysis: At present, there are more than 1,400 lock-up enterprises registered in China, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises, mostly individual and private enterprises, which are basically labor-intensive industries.

Locks can be divided into three eras in history: the era of wooden locks, the era of copper locks, and the era of mechanical marble locks. Through years of practice, the exposure of the keyhole is the focus of the contradiction between theft and anti-piracy. Therefore, how to hide the lock becomes the key to security