Lock design concept and innovation in market economy

Lock design concept and innovation in market economy

Huai'an Public Security Bureau Li Jijun

Dalian Blue Shield Lock Art Qi Handsome

The design concept of locks is the main idea and principle of designing locks. In short, the designed locks must conform to the relevant national standards, that is, the technical indicators and other auxiliary indicators for preventing technical opening and anti-violence damage required by the standards; On the basis of this, the decoration and cost performance of the lock products are taken into consideration.

For the design, there are two main points: one is invention; the second is improvement. "Invention" is from scratch, according to the needs of the market, breaking existing models and concepts, creating a new product in an original way, such as lock core idle lock; such locks and past marble locks from the structure There are fundamental differences in the principle of opening and closing. If you only change the appearance, material and other aspects of the product, it is only an improvement on the basis of the invention.

At present, China registered more than 1,400 enterprises lock, medium and small enterprises, mostly large private enterprises, individual enterprises, basically belong to labor-intensive industries. For small businesses, under the market economy system, the primary goal of enterprises is to focus on survival; therefore, the core of their strategy is how to exchange for greater profits at the lowest cost. Always pursue short-term benefits or just maximize profits and scale, thus ignoring a series of problems such as independent research and development of locks and brand strategy. The independent research and development design of locks requires a certain amount of manpower and material resources to increase the cost of products. This is the most unwilling thing for business owners to do. Therefore, the technique and design of copying foreign related locks has become a fairly common phenomenon. Coupled with the lack of awareness of intellectual property protection and the ineffectiveness of the relevant departments, the industry has low barriers, and a large number of imitation lock products have appeared on the market. There are new locks listed in China, and there are counterfeit products appearing immediately, which has infringed on the innovative technology that has not been much, which has further hampered the enthusiasm of lock enterprises for product technology innovation, which seriously damaged the overall image and long-term development of China's lock industry.

In addition, the existing national lock standards also reduce the innovation enthusiasm of the lock design concept in a certain sense. The standard stipulates that the mechanical anti-theft lock is divided into A-class and B-class, and the A-level anti-locking technology is turned on for 1 minute. As we all know, improving the anti-theft performance of locks can be improved from the following aspects: increasing the number or number of marbles, changing the shape of the lock cylinder, changing the locking principle or structure. If you do the above work, it is necessary to invest in the design of professionals, change the previous production process, increase production equipment. Under the general circumstances that the original and auxiliary materials are generally rising in price and the labor cost is gradually increasing, who is willing to improve the locks at the cost of raising costs? Only a few companies are willing to do such a thing. On the contrary, under the requirements of the technical indicators of Class A anti-theft locks, even if we do not seek innovation and improvement, we can maximize the profits in the existing market. For example, a brand of cross locks, from the design concept to the processing technology are the concepts and technologies of the 1990s, from opening the lock to reopening (rotating more than 720 degrees), can be completed within 3 minutes. Therefore, the anti-technical opening performance of the lock is very low (according to the A-class standard); however, due to the rough processing of the lock and the low price, it is still very marketable. The author has done a survey, an average sales of a store can sell more than 20,000 per year; there should be such a store in the country, a few thousand, showing how much the lock sales. On the contrary, the design of the very advanced idle lock is because the price is high (usually more than three times the price of the ordinary lock), so the promotion is not universal, such locks are almost unattended in the store; therefore the benefits of producing idle lock manufacturers may Far from being comparable to manufacturers that produce cross locks.

Who is going to evaluate whether the locks are innovatively designed to produce new products? In theory, it should be the majority of users, that is, users of locks. However, most of the users do not understand the construction principle and anti-theft performance of the lock, and can only listen to the propaganda of the manufacturer or seller. And there are many sellers who have "fudge", and they are exaggerated by the anti-theft performance of the locks they produce. Often, the inferior lock is sold to the user as an excellent product. When the theft case causes the user's property to suffer losses, the reason is also attributed to the theft, and no one is to investigate the responsibility of the lock producer.

In addition, the propaganda of the media has sometimes misled the role of the user. Some reporters are laymen. They don’t understand the performance of the locks. They call the people who will unlock them the lock king. They think that the locks that the lock king can’t open are good. lock. As everyone knows, this "lock king" can not be opened, and his "lock king" can be opened without any effort. Of course, why some journalists do this, and the chain of interests and shady between them and producers is unknown. As a result, the current lock industry is a mixed bag, which has caused the quality problems of lock products on the market to become more serious.

The relevant departments of our country have a special lock identification agency. If you let him identify the physical properties of the lock, because there are a large number of identification instruments for use, there is absolutely no problem; but let him identify the anti-theft performance of the lock, because because of the institution, after all It is not an unlocking mechanism, and it is difficult to make scientific and rigorous conclusions without a person with a high level of technical unlocking. Locks like certain brands can be easily opened after the efforts of the vast locksmiths (socially called locksmiths) in the society.

In summary, in order to promote the Chinese lock industry, promote the development of manufacturers, and safeguard the vital interests of users, the author believes that it is necessary to establish a new lock identification and evaluation agency. Absorb the professional lock manufacturing technicians and locksmiths who have senior or technician titles, and make a realistic evaluation of the locks on the basis of extensive solicitation of opinions. Or the physical and technical indicators and mechanical properties of the locks are identified by the public security department, technical indicators for prevention of technical opening, and technical indicators for anti-violence damage are identified by the Lock Repair Industry Association.

Moreover, the innovative design of locks and the production of new products are also a problem. For a new product, it is obviously difficult to establish a high brand awareness in a short period of time and give consumers a big brand. There are many manufacturers that use the form of squatting to promote their new products; there are successful cases and failures. For example, a brand lock manufacturer must use a technical method to open the lock when it is hitting the platform. The subtext of this regulation is that the lock against violent twisting and anti-violence damage can not stand the test. Because the locks are used as anti-theft products, they must contain two important indicators: anti-technical opening and anti-violence destruction. Locks that only prevent technology from opening and cannot withstand violent twisting and violent destruction are definitely not good products. The emergence of this situation is obviously caused by the organizers having problems in planning. So how to make the design of advanced locks favored by users, and inferior locks are gradually eliminated from the market? The author believes that this should start from the source, that is, the national standard will increase the lock C and D standards, and the doors of the security door and important occasions must be installed with locks of Class C or above or that cannot be technically opened. Second, through a specific The platform promotes and publicizes the various anti-theft indicators of existing locks and the advantages and disadvantages of each product. For example, the magazine "Modern Locks", which is one of the few magazines on locks, can make notifications on the basis of in-depth research on the basis of in-depth research, by regularly inspecting the quality of locks on the basis of in-depth research. The content has certain authority and credibility; the third is that the locksmiths call the locksmiths to guide the users to correctly select the locks with advanced design concepts, upgrade the locks with poor anti-theft performance, and gradually eliminate those security features. Poor quality locks.

At present, the public security department of Dalian is guiding the general public to carry out the “safe lock activity”; it is to call on the residents to replace the locks that have been installed on the previous security door with the anti-technical technology to replace the locks that are open against the technology. This measure has received positive response from the general public. Although it has to pay a certain fee, it has no worries when going out. It can be seen that although the price of locks with high anti-theft performance is relatively high, after the propaganda of the authoritative department, the advantages and disadvantages will be clearly welcomed by the masses.