Furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production
AssigneeEcotomic Group, Inc.
InventorGary C. Heape
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Abstract
A system and method for furniture manufacturing with on demand production. As order opportunities are placed by consumers into the network, backlogs and tooling available for connected factories are considered. Based on these considerations a determination is made of which of the associated factories have cleared paths for producing the on-demand furniture based upon the consumer's requirements. The eligible factories are then notified and allowed with a single entry of a command transmitted over a network to indicate that their factory is available and wishes to pursue the opportunity in manufacturing the consumer's desired on-demand furniture.
Claims18
A furniture manufacturing system, comprising:
- a furniture material panel sawing module comprising:
- at least one processor in communication with a data storage facility configured to store a furniture manufacturing facility operational capabilities, the processor configured to perform steps comprising:
- receiving a plurality of furniture purchase orders;
- compiling a job batch comprising a plurality of furniture parts associated with the plurality of furniture purchase orders;
- retrieving from the data storage facility a set of dimensions corresponding to the plurality of furniture parts of the compiled job batch;
- determining, based on the set of dimensions and the furniture manufacturing facility operational capabilities, a path for manufacturing the plurality of furniture parts;
- selecting, from a collection of sawing patterns, a first sawing pattern for manufacturing the plurality of furniture parts and a second sawing pattern for manufacturing the plurality of furniture parts;
- identifying an arrangement of the first sawing pattern corresponding to the set of dimensions and a size of a panel;
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- identifying an arrangement of the second sawing pattern corresponding to the set of dimensions and the size of the panel,
- a saw module for receiving computer readable instructions of the identified arrangement of the first sawing pattern and of the identified arrangement of the second sawing pattern;
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- a saw under control of the saw module, wherein the saw is configured to cut a plurality of stacked panels according to the arrangement of the first sawing pattern and the arrangement of the second sawing pattern which forms a three-dimensional pattern.
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