Lectra’s Digital Production Platform Accelerates Time To Market For On-Demand Furniture Manufacture
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For fifty years, King Hickory Furniture Company has been dedicated to building superior furniture, possessing elements of luxury, quality, and style.
With Lectra’s expertise and support, King Hickory looked at new ways to re-work their workflow and to digitalize and enhance their process.
With the combination of Lectra’s most advanced digital solution, Furniture On Demand by Lectra, they were able to add more precision and excellence to their products.
Increasing Efficiency And Throughput With Automation
The challenge that faced King Hickory was how to keep pace with innovations in furniture manufacturing in order to streamline their processes for faster production while maintaining the high-quality standards that their customers have come to expect.
They also wanted to improve craftsmanship and better match tough patterns like chevrons, accelerate order handling while increasing fabric yield, and overall, better manage supply chain costs.
Maintaining High-Quality Standards While Streamlining Processes For Faster Production
In order to protect their bottom line, create a more automated flow, standardize and maintain excellence along with better managing difficult pattern repeats and matching, King Hickory looked to the Furniture On Demand solution.
To answer their objectives, they chose an offer that included the material library, nesting in the cloud, and a digital production platform.
Also, King Hickory wanted to ensure that the way they produced furniture would be at the highest level with the integration of the most advanced industry 4.0 technology.
The Furniture On Demand by Lectra combined with Formaris pattern-making software really helped King Hickory to improve their throughput of matched fabrics. By nesting in the cloud, they were able to get rid of nesting as a separate task and speed up the machine management, and accelerate throughput.
An added benefit was the ability to quickly process hard-to-match fabrics like chevrons. With the Furniture On Demand, they were able to process matched fabrics as quickly as plain fabrics.
“It is truly night and day from hand cutting to complete and full digital cutting – hands down, it has really accelerated how we process our furniture.” : John Palmer : King Hickory President
Furniture On Demand by Lectra
Comprises Lectra’s Digital Cutting Platform and single-ply fabric cutting solution Virga.
It’s a turnkey solution that automates on-demand production right from order reception to cut piece.
This disruptive offer gives furniture companies a 360°-view of the entire On-Demand process from small series to one-off production runs.
