A concurrent engineering system to support flexible automation in furniture production

Culbreth, C. Thomas; Miller, Michael; O’Grady, Peter

doi:10.1016/0736-5845(95)00018-6

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“…The principles underlying CE encompass early customer involvement, integration, simultaneous engineering, design for manufacturability (DfM), and design for quality (DfQ). This approach finds relevance and applicability across diverse industries, including but not limited to the aerospace, automotive, electronics, and furniture sectors [37].…”

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Surveying Quality Management Methodologies in Wooden Furniture Production

Skorupińska,

Hitka,

Sydor

2024

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Furniture production is a specific industrial sector with a high human labor demand, a wide range of materials processed, and short production runs caused by high customization of end products. The difficulty of measuring the aesthetic requirements of customers is also specific to furniture. This review of academic papers identifies and explains effective quality management strategies in furniture production. The reviewed literature highlights a range of quality management methodologies, including concurrent engineering (CE), total quality management (TQM), lean manufacturing, lean six sigma, and kaizen. These strategies encompass a variety of pro-quality tools, such as 5S, statistical process control (SPC), quality function deployment (QFD), and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). The strengths of these quality management strategies lie in their ability to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, increase product diversity, and improve product quality. However, the weaknesses concern implementation challenges and the need for culture change within organizations. Successful quality management in furniture production requires tailoring strategies to the specific context of the furniture production industry. Additionally, the importance of sustainability in the furniture industry is emphasized, which entails incorporating circular economy principles and resource-efficient practices. The most important finding from the literature analysis is that early detection and correction of poor quality yields the most beneficial outcomes for the manufacturer. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the rigor of quality testing and analysis during the early stages of product development. Consequently, a deep understanding of consumer perspectives on required furniture quality is crucial. The review identified two research gaps: (1) the impact of unnecessary product over-quality on the efficiency of furniture production and (2) the influence of replacing CAD drawings with a model-based definition (MBD) format on quality management in furniture production.

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Section: Postproduction Quality Analysis As Input Information Into Pr...mentioning

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“…Employees and management may resist the cultural shift required for successful CE implementation. [37,48,49] Lean manufacturing (LM) Eliminates waste, leading to cost reduction and increased efficiency. Enhances flexibility in responding to changes in customer demands.…”

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Surveying Quality Management Methodologies in Wooden Furniture Production

Skorupińska,

Hitka,

Sydor

2024

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ProjectLeader: A Constraint-Based Process Support for the Distributed Design of Component-Based Products

Blin

Fabret

Kapitskaia

et al. 2002

Software Product-Family Engineering

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RésuméNous présentons, dans ce papier, un support d'aide à la conception collaborative de produits appartenant à une famille de produits. Le produit est modélisé par un arbre de composants et les contraintes de développement, utilisées pour guider le processus de conception, sont exprimées à l'aide d'un langage spécifique basé sur des expressions logiques. L'objectif principal de ProjectLeader est d'économiser le temps de conception en favorisant le travail simultané et en prévenant les retours en arrière. Ainsi, pour chaque intention de décision émise par un concepteur, ProjectLeader vérifie que la décision ne remettra pas en cause la possibilité d'atteindre un état correct du produit final, c'est-à-dire un état dans lequel toutes les contraintes sont vérifiées. Mots-clefs : conception collaborative, système à base de composants, modélisation et traitement de contraintes de conception, modélisation et traitement de la variabilité AbstractIn this paper we present a support that helps organizing distributed design of products belonging to a product family. We model the product to be developed as a component-based tree of object templates, develop a logic-based language that allows expressing diverse development constraints and use these constraints to guide the design process. The main objective of our support is to save time and development effort in increasing parallel work and avoiding roll-backs. For that, it reasons in terms of correctness of the future, final state of the product, and verifies that the product state after each operation allows the reacheability of such a state.

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