<p>Denna magisteruppsats har genomförts vid Spaljisten AB och behandlar produktionsfilosofin Lean-produktion</p><p>och produktionskonceptet TPM. Huvudobjektet för studierna var en maskinlinje för sågning, kantlistning, fräsning</p><p>och borrning av planmöbeldetaljer (Homag VI). En nulägesanalys genomfördes för att kartlägga stopporsaker</p><p>och OEE-talet (35,9 %). Inom samtliga klasser av stopptider är det framförallt kortvariga avbrott (81 %), vilket</p><p>tyder på kroniska fel i linjen. Tillsammans med maskinlinjens personal genomfördes en störningsanalys</p><p>(Ishikawadiagram). Nulägesanalys och störningsanalys visar på en förbättringspotential av 33 % för ökad</p><p>tillgänglighet. Vidare genomfördes en SMED-analys där själva analysarbetet genomfördes tillsammans med</p><p>personalen av maskinlinjen. Vid en närmare analys kunde det föreslås en klassificering av IED respektive OED</p><p>samt förenklingar som innebär en minskning av tidsåtgången med 55 min. och 43 sek för omställningen. Utöver</p><p>detta studerades bland annat verktyg som Lean-uppstart och kommunikation, operatörsunderhåll, 5S och</p><p>ständiga förbättringar. Det genomfördes en effektivitetsanalys av förbättringsgruppenverksamheten. Vid den</p><p>sistnämnda analysen konstaterades motivationsproblem hos personalen, som har sin huvudförklaring i ett</p><p>saknande av en organisatorisk plan och en planering för införandet av nya produktionsformer. Uppsatsen</p><p>rymmer en utförlig sammanfattning på svenska, engelska och tyska.</p> / <p>The master thesis has been realized in direct contact with the host company Spaljisten AB, Åseda Sweden and</p><p>is dealing with the production philosophy Lean production and the production concept TPM. Main object for the</p><p>studies was a machine line for processing of furniture details (Homag VI). An actual condition analysis has been</p><p>done to determinate stop reasons and the OEE (35.9 %). In all classes of stop reasons occur mainly short stops</p><p>(81 %) those indicate chronic problems in the line. Together with the employees of the line Homag VI was a fault</p><p>analysis done (Ishikawa diagram). Actual condition analysis and fault analysis can generate a potential of</p><p>improvement of 33 % for increased availability. Furthermore was a SMED analysis done where the main work of</p><p>analyzing was done together with the employees of the line. By a deeper analysis a classification of IED and</p><p>OED respectively could be done including even simplifications that led to a reducing of time for set up of 55</p><p>minutes and 43 seconds. Also tools like the Lean start up and communication, operator’s maintenance, 5S,</p><p>constant improvements have been studied. An efficiency analysis of the kaizen groups was done that shows that</p><p>a lack of motivation exists among the employees. The main explanation for this is that the company does not</p><p>have a plan for the organisation structure and neither a plan for implementation of new production forms. The</p><p>work contains an extended summary in English, German and Swedish.</p>

<p>This paper examines the potential benefits of using augmented reality as a tool for visualizing furniture in a buyer’s own environment before buying it. A simple prototype is developed and tested.  The steps for developing the prototype are described in great detail as well as the tools being used. The prototype is tested both on people working in the furniture business as well as people with experience in buying furniture online. In conclusion the results from the user tests are analyzed and the potential benefits are described. In addition to analyzing the potential benefits of the tool this paper also describes how this tool should be designed to best fit the needs of the would-be users.</p>

Thesis--Aarhus universitet. / Added t.p.: Furniture by N.H. Jardin ... Captions and summary in English. Bibliography: p. 343-354.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Mississippi State University. Department of Forest Products. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

During the last decades, the competition changed from taking place between individual companies to take place between supply chains. As a natural consequence, the importance of buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs) increased since both actors need to work together (Dyer &amp; Singh, 1998; Kannan &amp; Choon Tan, 2006). During a seminar provided by the Swedish trade and employers’ association Trä- och Möbelföretagen (TMF), companies within the Swedish furniture industry revealed the BSR management to be deficient from time to time, where price focus has increased from the producer side. Whereas the suppliers stressed the disinterest to compete on price, the authors formulated the purpose of this thesis as: To investigate how the furniture industry can further develop the management of BSRs for the benefit of both producers and suppliers within the industry segment. To fulfill the purpose, the authors have conducted an observation, interviews and distributed a survey to both producers and suppliers of the studied industry segment, design- and office furniture. The aim was to holistically understand how the BSRs are currently managed, and from the current state provide improvement suggestions. The analysis of the collected data highlights that the problems perceived by the companies are not as wide-ranging as first indicated, but there are rather small-scale changes that need to be done in order to improve the BSR management. The suggested improvements that need to be considered were drafted from earlier theories and merged into a single BSR framework. However, a BSR development model, suggesting that the furniture industry could beneficially manage the BSRs more strategically, also accompanies the BSR framework. The authors conclude that in order for companies to manage BSRs more strategically, the main focus needs to shift from price towards flexibility, long-term commitment and co-development. Only by shifting focus from transactional BSRs towards collaborative BSRs, the authors argue the furniture industry can realize the domestic BSRs’ full potential.

Furniture history is often considered a niche subject removed from the main discipline of art history, and one that has little to do with the output of painters, sculptors and architects. This thesis, however, connects the key intellectual, artistic and architectural debates surfacing in 'the arts' between 1740 and 1840 with the design of British furniture. Despite the expanding corpus of scholarly monographs and articles dealing with individual cabinet-makers, furniture making in geographic areas and periods of time, little attention has been paid to exploring Gothic furniture made between 1740 and 1840. Indeed, no body of research on 'mainstream' Gothic furniture made at this time has been published. No sustained attempt has been made to trace its stylistic evolution, establish stylistic phases, or to place this development within the context of contemporary architectural practice and historiography — except for the study of A.W.N. Pugin's 'Reformed Gothic'. Neither have furniture historians been willing to explore the aesthetic's connection with the intellectual and sentimental position of 'the Gothic' in the period. This thesis addresses these shortcomings and is the first to bridge the historiographic, cultural and architectural concerns of the time with the stylistic, constructional and material characteristics of Gothic furniture. It argues that it, like architecture, was charged with social and political meanings that included national identity in the eighteenth century — around a century before Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin designed the Palace of Westminster and prominently associated the Gothic legacy with Britishness.

This is a dissertation for a Bachelor Degree Project at the University of Skövde. The project is carried out in cooperation with the company Kinnarps AB. The objective of this project was to develop a new chair for café and lunch rooms, which should satisfy the markets expectations and demands and match Kinnarps AB’s assortment today. The project has contained everything from identification of user and customer needs and requirements to evaluation and building of a prototype. The result is a chair with a frame of tubular steel and there is nothing like it in Kinnarps AB’s assortment today. The chair has a frame of tubular steel and separate seat and backrest, just like the chairs Jig and Tango as it is intended to replace. The chair’s extraordinary characteristics are that the shape of the backrest enables a good grip and the motion which encourages variation in sitting postures. The motion is new for this kind of chair both in Kinnarps AB’s assortment as well as on the market. The product development process is an iterative process which can be described with the activities: identification of customer requirements, product design specification, initiation of concept solutions, evaluation, embodiment design and detail design. Knowledge about the customer requirements and needs is fundamental to a successful product. The result of the market research showed that the new chair should be a comfortable and inviting chair which is lightweight and simple with a timeless design and organic shape. It also came to our knowledge that it is very important that the chair is stackable, possible to hang on a table and linkable. Different researchers’ literatures have been studied and an analysis has been made in SAMMIE to ensure that the chair has good ergonomics. This is a very important quality but often an unspoken requirement that is taken for granted. The result was carefully evaluated during and after the building of the prototype. Kinnarps AB will also make further analysis and quality tests. This project has hopefully resulted in a chair with good quality and a potential to participate in the competition on the market. / Den här rapporten behandlar ett examensarbete i integrerad produktutveckling. Examensarbetet har gjorts i samarbete med företaget Kinnarps AB. Uppdraget bestod i att utveckla en ny stol till café och lunchrum som ska möta marknadens förväntningar och krav samt passa in i Kinnarps AB:s sortiment. Under projektet har det förutom rena konstruktions- och designförslag gjorts alltifrån marknadsanalys för att få reda på marknadens och kundernas krav, kartläggning av och anpassning till produktion och validering med bl a framtagning av prototyp. Resultatet av arbetet är en stålrörsstol, vars like inte finns i Kinnarps AB:s sortiment idag. Stolen har ett underrede i bockat stålrör samt separat sits och rygg, precis som de befintliga stolarna, Jig och Tango, som den är tänkt att ersätta. Det som är speciellt med stolen och som urskiljer den från konkurrenternas stolar är den mycket greppvänliga ryggen och den sviktande rörelsen i ryggen. Den införda svikten är något nytt för den här typen av stolar och finns idag varken i Kinnarps AB:s sortiment eller ute på marknaden. Produktutvecklingsprocessen är en iterativ process som kan beskrivas med aktiviteterna: fastställande av kundkrav, kravspecifikation, konceptgenerering, utvärdering, förkroppsligande samt detaljdesign. Att veta vad marknaden vill ha eller behöver är en avgörande faktor för en lyckad produkt. Marknadsanalysen visade att den nya stolen bör vara en bekväm och inbjudande stol som är lätt och enkel med en tidlös design och organiska former. Att stolen ska vara möjlig att stapla, hänga upp och koppla ihop med andra stolar visade sig vara viktigt. Att stolen har bra ergonomi är viktigt, varför olika forskares verk studerats. För att ytterligare undersöka de ergonomiska aspekterna har en analys gjorts i programmet SAMMIE. För att göra en ordentlig uppföljning och utvärdering av resultatet togs det fram en prototyp. Det kommer även att göras en riskanalys och kvalitetstest i Kinnarps AB:s ackrediterade laboratorium. Förhoppningsvis har arbetet resulterat i en stol med hög kvalitet och som har god potential att synas i konkurrensen på marknaden.

Our interest in this thesis is based on the discussion we had in previous courses about the development of emerging countries. Since two of the writers of this thesis are from Poland we tried to found a common interest, hence the relationship between the Polish subcontractors and Swedish customer is analyzed. Poland is also known as a low cost country and that make it favorable when it comes about hiring subcontractors. The subcontractors in Poland are also known for the skills and expertise to produce quality. Something that is important for many foreign companies. IKEA has more than 40 subcontractors in Poland; the reason is just the factors mentioned above, to be able to produce good quality to low cost. (www.ikea.com) Earlier research indicate that Poland is developing rapidly compare to other emergent countries in Eastern Europe. There have been and will be changes in the environment that most likely will affect the competitive advantage that the subcontractors are the leader in. In other words these changes might lead to that Poland loses its customers which choose other markets that still are able produce at lower costs. The main problem for the thesis is to investigate how can polish subcontractors cope with environmental changes to sustain competitive advantage? In order to answer this, we used a qualitative approach where the characteristics of a case study are conducted. We collected and analyzed data in an abductive way. The interviews with the three Polish subcontractors were made in a semi structure form via telephone. To be able to solve the above problem an environmental analysis of Poland was done, in order to found those factors that are mentioned as worries and are likely to change in the future. The changes are presented from subcontractors’ perspective and recommendation how to cope with them is given.

Development of stewardship programs for management of end-of-life mattresses (ELM) is a global challenge for governments. Metro Vancouver is the first Canadian regional government to ban mattresses at local landfills. The next step is for manufacturers and retailers to work with local governments in developing stewardship programs that successfully divert and recycle mattresses across British Columbia (BC). This thesis examines how mattress industry stakeholders in BC could effectively implement province wide mattress stewardship policy that will ensure maximum public participation and will be environmentally sound as well as cost effective. Research was conducted by way of a literature review, a case study approach of Metro Vancouver's mattress recycling bylaw and model, and exploratory interviews with BC stewardship program leaders, Sleep Country Canada, government waste management planners, and mattress recyclers.

Baigiamajame bakalauro darbe suprojektuotas baldų gamybos įmonės elektros tinklas. Nuosekliai atliktas įmonės elektros energijos tiekimo sistemos projektavimas. Patalpų apšvietimo skaičiavimai atlikti OptiWin 3D pro programa. Grafinėje dalyje pateikta: skaičiuojamoji elektros tinklo schema, galios tinklo instaliacijos planas, apšvietimo tinklo instaliacijos planas. Darbo aiškinamasis raštas sudarytas iš šių dalių: įvado, pagrindinių projekto rodiklių, elektros tinklo sistemos parinkimo, šviesotechninių skaičiavimų, galios tinklo skaičiavimų, laidiklių parinkimo ir tikrinimo, įtampos nuostolių ir nuokrypų skaičiavimo, komutacinių ir apsaugos aparatų parinkimo, trumpojo jungimo srovių skaičiavimo, reaktyviosios galios kompensavimo, elektros energijos apskaitos, įžeminimo projektavimo, įrenginių ir medžiagų žiniaraščio, išvadų, literatūros sąrašo. / In this final bachelor paper an electrical network of furniture production company have been designed. The designing of factory power supply system have been made coherently. Indoor lighting calculations have been performed using OptiWin 3D pro program. In the graphical part of the bachelor paper are presented: computational scheme of electrical network, installation plan of power network and installation plan of lightning network. Explanatory notes of the bachelor paper consist of the following parts: introduction, the main indexes of the project, selection of electricity network system, calculations of lightning and power network, selection and verification of conductors, calculations of voltage losses and deviation, calculation of short circuit current, selection of commutation and protection devices, compensation of reactive power, accounting of electricity power, grounding protection, list of equipment and material, conclusions, references.