Furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production
AssigneeEcotomic Group, Inc.
InventorGary C. Heape
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AssigneeEcotomic Group, Inc.
InventorGary C. Heape
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A system and method for furniture manufacturing with on demand production. As order opportunities are placed by consumers into the network, data pertaining to order backlogs, tooling availability and other environmental factors pertaining to a single factory or across multiple factories are considered by an optimization module. 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 employing multiple sawing patterns to raw material panels arranged in books for sawing.
A furniture manufacturing system, comprising:
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