IoT (Internet of Things), can be defined as a link for software, telecom, and electronic hardware industry and promises to offer tremendous opportunities for a range of industries. When applied to manufacturing industry it is popularly known as IIoT or…
Author: Shayar Choksi
Understanding Industry 4.0 & the Benefits for Furniture Manufacturers
Back to the future for furniture Customized goods were the norm in pre-industrialized societies. In the 20th century, manufacturers began to embrace the mass production model and the lure of cheap, readily available goods drew consumers away from the unique…
Bespoke furniture Design; the emerging trend
Bespoke Furniture Bespoke furniture is custom made furniture that measures according to your required dimensions, and reciprocates how you want it to look. For an example, if you want a wardrobe for your room in a particular size and also…
The 70 percent solution: CAD/CAM connected to CNC is missing something
In my last post, CAD/CAM and connection to CNC machines was discussed. As powerful as that solution may be – even when everything is well implemented, the whole system is still an island. Although CAD/CAM packages may generate cut…
Bram Kerkhofs designs cabinets with elastic walls to “redefine the cupboard”
Source : https://www.dezeen.com/2018/08/28/bram-kerkhofs-cabinets-coil-modular-furniture-design/ Created by Belgian designer Bram Kerkhofs, Coil is a modular furniture system designed to combine the function of an open shelf and a display cabinet. Each Coil unit is wrapped in a semi-transparent curtain of woven elastic…
Furniture that assembles itself?
A project at Carnegie Mellon’s Morphing Matter Lab could potentially create furniture that assembles itself. Professor Lining Yao is taking advantage of what previously has been seen as a defect in desktop fused deposition modeling 3D printers. In some situations…
Nesting propels growth at 12-man Wooded Hollow
Nesting cabinet parts has become second nature and highly profitable for Wooded Hollow Inc. of Payson, Utah. Since the company purchased its first Omnitech CNC router and KCD Cabinet CNC Commander software in 2008, sales are up – reaching $2.5…
A Digital Twin Approach for Designing Cost-effective Maintenance Strategies
Introduction Industry professionals responsible for managing assets are faced with numerous challenges in designing cost-effective maintenance strategies for equipment. Intelligent approaches for identifying optimal processes and systems for managing assets ideally combine data-driven modeling of known degradation mechanisms with field…
From Myth to Manifest – Why Digital Twins and Why Now?
When you think of the concept of a digital twin, the first thing that may come to mind is something like the movie Transcendence, where Johnny Depp’s character Dr. Will Caster develops an AI so powerful he transfers his consciousness…
Twins with potential
The digital twin has long since established itself in industry, where it’s revolutionizing processes along the entire value chain. As a virtual representation of a product, production process, or performance, it enables the individual process stages to be seamlessly linked.…