IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-319-77556-2_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

A Digital Fabrication Infrastructure Enabling Distributed Design and Production of Custom Furniture

In: Customization 4.0

Author

Listed:
  • Andrea Barni

    (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, ISTePS)

  • Donatella Corti

    (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, ISTePS)

  • Paolo Pedrazzoli

    (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, ISTePS)

  • Diego Rovere

    (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, ISTePS)

Abstract

Thanks to the implementation of advanced technologies within simple-to-use responsive design interfaces, everyone can now purchase perfect-fit products from home. This is possible in several sectors, thanks to the great developments in information and communications technology (ICT) and the wide use of cloud computing. The furniture sector is yet scarcely influenced by this trend, still lacking of systems able to translate parametric design libraries in optimally scheduled, ready to be manufactured projects, correlated by list of operations and specifications for on time customers’ order fulfilment. This paper aims at describing an application model of the mass customization paradigm within the furniture sector, focusing on field-level solutions implemented to create a fully operative “design to manufacturing in one step” process. The integration of several software tools, market ready or specifically developed for the need, paved the way for the design of a seamlessly integrated production system able to manage the complexity of a mass customization environment. The proposed IT infrastructure is intended to run distributed design and production facilities fulfilling the requirements of a highly variable customer demand both in terms of product requirements and buying experience. The developed system has been tested within the context of a shopping mall where the design area and the manufacturing site have been installed for several days.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrea Barni & Donatella Corti & Paolo Pedrazzoli & Diego Rovere, 2018. "A Digital Fabrication Infrastructure Enabling Distributed Design and Production of Custom Furniture," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Stephan Hankammer & Kjeld Nielsen & Frank T. Piller & Günther Schuh & Ning Wang (ed.), Customization 4.0, pages 173-190, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-77556-2_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77556-2_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-77556-2_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.