There are many categories of home appliances, including white goods, black goods, kitchen appliances, bathroom appliances, household appliances, and commercial appliances. After years of development in the appliance industry, the market share of European, American and Japanese brands has been decreasing, and Chinese and Korean brands are growing. Industry products also developed from the competition of scale and share, to pay more attention to quality and efficiency of the competition.

As a guarantee of product quality his industry access, the relevant industry standards have also developed rapidly, CCC certification, CB certification, CE certification, MEMKO certification, voluntary certification, etc., involving a wide range of testing of product safety, performance, energy efficiency, electromagnetic compatibility and RoHS. At the same time, both the home appliance products themselves and the home appliance manufacturing management are more rapidly integrating the characteristics of the information age. In particular, production and quality management methods tend to be more systematic, rapid, informationized and automated.