Traditional hardware products refer to five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin. After manual processing can be made into knives, swords and other works of art or metal devices. Hardware in modern society is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily hardware, building hardware and security supplies, etc. Most hardware products are not final consumer goods.

History into the modern industrial society, metal-hardware products industry is rapid development, the hardware industry in the development of the national economy has played an immeasurable role, hardware products have become an indispensable industrial link in industrial manufacturing.

But as a supporting product of industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products and tools used in the production process and so on. Only a small part of the daily hardware products are the necessary tool consumer goods.