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For furniture manufacturers, these two years have not been easy.
The downturn of the upstream real estate and the slowdown of economic growth are the main environmental factors, and the deeper reasons are: when consumers demand higher delivery efficiency and personalized product customization; When the channel end is more diversified and fragmented, the manufacturing end has reached a new fork - either self upgrading, timely response, and providing cost-effective high-quality products through better technology and higher efficiency; Or gradually be surpassed by peers and abandoned by consumers.
So, how to upgrade the furniture manufacturing industry?
1、 Technology and equipment first: single breakthrough and efficiency.
Before the industry is eager to enter the era of intelligent manufacturing or industry 4.0, a fact is before us: the overall foundation of furniture manufacturing industry is still relatively weak, the production efficiency of enterprises is generally low, and there is still huge room for improvement.
Unlike many industries such as home textile and home appliances, the furniture industry has many categories and great differences. The processing methods of products made of different materials such as solid wood, plate, wood, software, metal and glass are very different. Due to the scattered characteristics of the industry, except for some leading enterprises in the field of customized home furnishings and mattresses, the production methods of most enterprises are relatively extensive and primitive.
This is the same as high-speed rail construction. If more advanced dedicated tracks are not laid, even if the carriages are luxurious and the power system is advanced, the high-speed railway will not operate smoothly across the country.
For the furniture manufacturing industry, this special track is to use more efficient technology and equipment to promote the seamless connection and lean management of production links.
1. The final cost performance comes from the final optimization of the production process.
With the continuous transnational competition and increasingly fierce competition, the ultimate cost performance has become one of the key capabilities for enterprises to survive.
In order to obtain a higher cost-effective advantage, among all controllable factors, optimizing the internal production process and improving the efficiency of key links are the direct methods.
On the one hand, enterprises should replace repeated low-tech work with more efficient machinery and equipment.
Taking the production of solid wood furniture as an example, according to statistics, the processing process of a solid wood furniture includes more than 40 processes, such as material preparation, cutting, milling, drilling, painting, final packaging, etc. With automation equipment, some processes that originally require many people can be reduced to one or even no labor. Combining operations that originally require multiple machines into one machine can produce efficiently and reduce costs.
On the other hand, the adjustment of production process and operation mode should be lean production, reduce waste and improve operation efficiency.
For example, adjust the production line and material storage to improve the utilization rate of production site; Standardize the operation process and reduce unnecessary material utilization and waste. The content of lean production will be analyzed more in the next article.