Current situation and key manufacturing considerations of green furniture in China: A review

Aiming at the design defects and quality problems in Children's Furniture, flexible manufacturing of children's furniture is proposed. It is by flexible design, flexible production and information management that flexible manufacturing can overcome the impact of the function, style, quality requirement in children 's furniture for the production can be , reduce product costs, short developing time, help enterprises to quickly respond to market, produce furniture truly suitable for children, and build a good growing environment for children. Keywords-children's furniture; flexible manufacture; technology Along with the rapid ascension of the national economic level, Chinese furniture industry is growing stronger. Children’s furniture develops rapidly as an independent kind of furniture, which has occupied 9%~10% of the entire market in only ten years' time[1]. Although children's furniture market has developed as a certain scale, as a whole it is also at a low-end market level[2]. The development is suffering bottleneck in recent, and design flaws and quality issues are common in products. It is hard to obtain right children’s furniture for consumers, so that the cost of production for the company rises gradually. Based on this, the article will apply flexible manufacturing to furniture, put the children's furniture of a domestic enterprise into flexible manufacturing practice through its key technology, in order to solve their problems encountered in production, which is of great significance for the enterprises to implement flexible production. I. THE NECESSITY OF CHILDREN 'S FURNITURE FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING A. Production Problems of Children's Furniture Unreasonable structure and design, low quality and accurace are common in children's furniture on the market, and the fundamental reason for this is the difference of children 's furniture and adult furniture. Due to the particularity of children's physical and psychological,the requirement for appearance, structure, function, performance, cycle are typically higher than adult furniture, which put great strains on production, the main performance are as follow: 1) High proportion of abnormity parts: Children prefer furniture that is changeable and slick.This is not just for security reasons, it also has certain help to children's creativity and imagination; 2) Various kinds of sizes: Children's body grow up fast in the short term, which causes the much higher requirement for furniture size than adult furniture; 3) High requirements of quality and precision: relevant state standards expressly to chamfer, pore, elasticity, and stability[3]; 4) Rapid replacement cycle: Whether outward appearance or furniture size would change with rapid change of children's physical and psychological. These characteristics and the relevant provisions put forward higher requirements for the children's furniture, but also increase its design R & D and production costs. Diversified market demand and rapid replacement cycle require the production capacity Children's furniture enterprises with rapid response to market. B. The Necessity of Flexible Manufacturing for Children's Furniture Children's furniture is important to children's growth, and right children's furniture is a great help to skeleton development and intellectual development. Many designers design furniture specifically for children according to their characteristics, but the constraints of production capacity and manufacturing cost result its too high price to be massly producted. It’s difficult to be consumed by the average family, but mass production of furniture has certain flaw. Faced with this, flexible manufacturing could be a potent weapon. Embodied in: 1) Improving process capacity for abnormity parts and various sizes. Machining of Complex Parts like abnormity parts and various sizes can be achieved in flexible manufacturing technology[4]; 2) Solve the problem of quality and precision. Set up production modules based on process similarity, which would help workers to master processing skills, so as to enhance the quality and accuracy of furniture; 3) Modular production saves processing and logistics time, shorten the production cycle; 4) Flexible and adjustable production plan. The flexible manufacturing system can analyze the dynamic environment, appropriately deploy resources with basic facilities[5], optimize the schedules that have been generated, and rapidly response to market changes. International Conference on Advanced Materials Science and Civil Engineering (AMSCE 2017) Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Engineering Research, volume 70

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