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Upholstered seating furniture for business area

Oblazinjeno sedežno pohištvo za poslovni prostor

Author(s): Igor Seljak / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 2-3/2012

The aim of the workshop "Upholstered seating furniture for business areas" was to offer students knowledge in the field of industrial design. They were presented with theoretical knowledge and practical approaches to solving concrete design upholstered furniture intended for seating. The aim was to produce a practical, cushioned chair, with an accent on the identity of Slovene design. At the workshop, we discussed design issues regarding upholstered furniture for seating in business premises for meetings, seminars and conferences. Throughout the design process, all concepts were discussed in terms of aesthetics, ergonomic principles, design and production options. At the end of the workshop, the group of mentors selected the most promising project, which was built as a prototype by the Klun Ambienti company.

Innovations in the Enterprises from the Furniture Industry

Иновации в предприятията от мебелната промишленост

Author(s): Radostina Popova / Language(s): / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: O32; L73; O39

The results from studies of innovation in furniture enterprises for the period 2006-2012 are monitored more than 600 small and medium-sized enterprises for the production of furniture in Bulgaria. As a result, they are characterized specific innovation activities and results, and compared with the average performance. Highlighted are the barriers to innovation and recommendations are made in the observation of innovation in the furniture industry.

CAD/CAM in Board Furniture Industry

CAD/CAM u proizvodnji pločastog nameštaja

Author(s): Bojan Crnogaća / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 9/2012

Keywords: računarski integrisana proizvodnja;CNC nesting centri; CNC kant-mašine

U ovom radu dat je prikaz razvoja proizvodnje pločastog nameštaja sa aspekta korišćenja novih kompjuterskih tehnologija. Da bi današnja proizvodnja mogla nesmetano da funkcioniše potrebno je sve aktivnosti proizvodnog sistema koje su automatizovane međusobno povezati pomoću računara. Tako je u stručnoj javnosti nastao termin računarski integrisana proizvodnja (eng. Computer Integrated Manufacturing – CIM) ili kraće CIM sistem ili CIM koncept. U radu je opisana mogućnost raspoloživih programa, koji se koriste za kreiranje, prezentaciju i podršku u izdradi nameštaja. Autor je spomenuo Corpus kao jedan od najčeš će koriš ćenih programa. Za izradu nameštaja u ovako savremenim proizvodnim sistemima koristi se CNC tehnologija. U poslednje vreme u proizvodnji pločastog nameštaja sve više se koriste CNC nesting centri i CNC mašine za ivičnu obradu (kant-mašine) putem lasera.

The Impact of the Business Environment in Developing an Enterprise - Case Study: Furniture Manufacturing Tefik Canga Design

The Impact of the Business Environment in Developing an Enterprise - Case Study: Furniture Manufacturing Tefik Canga Design

Author(s): Arbenita Topalli / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Impact of environment; External environment; Internal environment; Cost of product; cost of production;

The enterprise is an organization that reconciles the workforce, real capital, techniques, information and knowledge to produce and service. The enterprise cannot control or have any impact on the environment that it`s surrounded by, only to adjust to it. Despite that, enterprises can be specialized in a special market segment, yet it will be subject to competitive pressure. Furniture Manufacturing Tefik Canga Design has taken over the use of natural and unnatural resources to promote the development and growth, or to solve financial and operational problems. With this research, we propose a growth model of a manufacturing enterprise in relation to the business environment. Implementation of the case is described and the profitability and productivity performance is analyzed using five years of historical data product. Therefore, by this study is expected to achieve results, that will improve the input-output relationship in order to increase the firm's productivity, increase the value of employees and create opportunities for development in order to cut production costs.

Sustainability Principles Preceding Lifecycle of Product in Furniture Design

Принципи за устойчивост, предшестващи жизнения цикъл на продукта в мебелния дизайн

Author(s): Svetoslav Anev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2015

Keywords: furniture design; construction materials; consequences on the environment; life cycle;

Construction materials that build the furniture could have a major, complex negative effects with serious consequences on the environment. Bad choice of materials can be a cause of loss of biodiversity, depletion of resources, climate change, water shortages, endangering the health and contamination during the manufacturing process. Emphasising the importance of the product life cycle and upstream processes is as important as the choice of material, this is the way through which the materials can change the usual design in sustainable. The main purpose of the article is the analysis of the sustainability principles preceding life cycle of products in furniture design.

The Flower of Saxon Painted Furniture. Where Is It Now?

Floarea mobilierului pictat săsesc. Unde se află acum?

Author(s): Simona Malearov / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: educational project;painted furniture;ethnographic research;Saxons;schools from Sibiu.

The project The flower of Saxon painted furniture. Where is it now?approached the Saxon painted furniture theme from the educational perspective,thus allowing involved students to appreciate individually the material values,discovered in the visited houses, and also to discover new artefacts, analyzing theway of using nowadays the traditional Saxon furniture.

Coopetition in the furniture industry cluster versus competitiveness and innovations of selected companies within the cluster

Coopetition in the furniture industry cluster versus competitiveness and innovations of selected companies within the cluster

Author(s): Janusz Kroik,Adam Świda / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (46)/2018

Keywords: cluster coopetition; enterprise; reviews; innovation activities; competence assumptions

The paper analyses the phenomenon of coopetition in the conditions of a large cluster of companies from the furniture industry in the vicinity of Kępno. It covers a two-stage analysis. The first stage defines the general characteristics of the coopetition potential for the cluster on the basis of the authors’ previous research. In this respect, the methodology of J. Cygler was used. At the second stage, using the case study approach, three companies of different market and assets potential were assessed in detail. The study proved that, when assessing the character of business relations at the level of the furniture production cluster, particular entities can be classified in different categories of use in business practice, covering innovations in coopetition relations.

Diversification of Capital Outlays on MSE in Furniture Industry

Zróżnicowanie poziomu nakładów inwestycyjnych w MSP branży meblarskiej

Author(s): Emilia Grzegorzewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 7.3/2018

Keywords: furniture industry; small and medium enterprises; investments; capital outlays;

The article covers the subject of investment activity in small and medium enterprises operating on the furniture market. It presents an overview of source literature relating to investment and investment decisions taken in the companies. Empirical data were divided into two stages. The first stage comprised the analysis of outlays incurred on investment activity by furniture companies and their share in industrial processing. The second stage covered the diversification of the level of capital outlays in the sector of small and medium enterprises. At that point „Statistical Yearbooks of Industry” published annually by the Central Statistical Office was the source of research material. In the second stage of the analyses financial data per one enterprise were used. The research was conducted with particular consideration for the criterion of company size singled out on the basis of the number of employees. The research presents financial outlays in aggregate as well as broken into investments in the field of purchase and modernization of: buildings and structures, machines and devices as well as means of transport. The timeframe for the research was established for the years 2010–2015.

THE EMERGENCE OF FURNITURE SHAPING IN THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD

ВИНИКНЕННЯ МЕБЛЕВОГО ФОРМОТВОРЕННЯ В ДОІСТОРИЧНИЙ ПЕРІОД

Author(s): Valery Strilets / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 35/2019

Keywords: forms; furniture; genesis; initial furniture formation; functional purpose; furniture typology;

The purpose of the article is to identify trends in the initial shaping of furniture in the prehistoric period. The methodology in the study introduced the method of theoretical analysis, the creation of hypotheses based on known facts, with subsequent verification of the theoretical assumption of new facts. The scientific novelty consists in the hypothetically substantiated identification of trends in the emergence of furniture shaping and the actual confirmation of its dependence on the influence of the characteristics of the natural climatic environment, the anthropomorphic size of a person, and his religious ideas. Conclusions. Due to the hypothesis of the prehistoric process of the formation of furniture, and then furniture forms, the influence of local climatic characteristics on the construction of the ecologicalconstructive scheme of furniture has been proved. Also recorded a consistent effect on the initial shaping of furniture ergonomic and sacred factors; The dependence of the primitive shaping of furniture on the designated ecological-constructive scheme is highlighted.

The Application of Cloud Computing Technology in Furniture Industry

Zastosowania technologii Cloud Computing w branży meblarskiej

Author(s): Katarzyna Kolasińska-Morawska,Łukasz Sułkowski,Przemysław Fernówka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5.3/2018

Keywords: Cloud Computing; IT services; IT systems; goodwill management

The article is devoted to Cloud Computing as a model of providing IT services.The article presents a synthetic characteristics of Cloud Computing as well as discusses its basic features and models of delivering such services. The article is mainly devoted to the presentation of benefits and barriers involved in implementing this concept.

Eco-innovation Exampled by the Companies in the Furniture Industry

Ekoinnowacje na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży meblarskiej

Author(s): Izabela Niziałek,Izabela Podobas,Artur Knysak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6.2/2016

Keywords: eco-innovation; innovation

The level of company innovation is an increasingly decisive factor in its market position. It also determines the directions of development and acquisition of new business partners. The article presents a family business, which belongs to the furniture industry, that has acquired a strategic business partner thanks to the eco-innovation.

Turkish Loan-Words Related to Home and Furniture

Турцизми у лексици куће и покућства

Author(s): Dijana M. Crnjak / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: Turkish loan-words; words related to home and furniture; etymology; semantic fields; languages in contact;

The paper offers an overview of Turkish loan-words related to home and furniture in Lijevce polje and Zupa in particular cultural and historical contexts. In the past, Turkish words were borrowed mostly for things that were not hand-made at home, but had to be bought. Such products, often signifying cultural heritage of Turkish provenance, were usually characterised by mobility, which has enabled their receptivity and easy acquisition among local inhabitants. Turkish words in the Serbian language are the carriers of the collective memory connected to the historical frame within which they were adopted as products of communicational and cultural circumstances.

Target Costing as a Strategic Cost Management Tool and a Survey on Its Implementation in the Turkish Furniture Industry

Target Costing as a Strategic Cost Management Tool and a Survey on Its Implementation in the Turkish Furniture Industry

Author(s): Duygu CELAYİR / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: Strategic cost management; Target costing; Furniture Industry;

Purpose – Target Costing is implemented in product design and development phases, and hence aims at cost reduction at the first stage of the life-cycle. This method is primarily intended to enable enterprises to seize their desired profit margin on top of the product cost and determine a price that corresponds to what customers are willing to pay. This purpose of this study is to examine the target costing method and attempts to determine the extent to which it is implemented in the Turkish furniture industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study examines the extent to which target costing is implemented at the enterprises affiliated with the Turkish Furniture Industrialists’ Association and the competencies related with the implementation principles of target costing. It therefore determines the extent to which target costing is implemented in the Turkish furniture industry. The enterprises within this study are selected from furniture industry. So Turkish Furniture Industrialists’ Association is selected because of reflecting furniture companies the best.

THE BED IN ART: IT’S NOT JUST A FURNITURE

SANATTA YATAK: SADECE BİR EŞYA DEĞİL

Author(s): Figen GİRGİN / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 44/2020

Keywords: bed; contemporary art; furniture;

The bed, in general, is a furniture lying on or in. But from the moment it interacts with people, it is no longer just a furniture like many. But what distinguishes it from others is one of the greatest witnesses of human’s external and internal change. The bed item, which a person can be sincerely self, or belongs to his/her privacy field, in short, has served to art for centuries and continues to do so. The underlying cause of attracting artists from past to present is perhaps to be installed with personality. This item, which reflects the experience of the person most self; from birth to death and in the passing life is the aesthetically pleasing fold fabric, soft pillows and the most beautiful carrier of a body. In the conceptual dimension, it also has a subordinate meaning in which one’s emotional and spiritual transitions are experienced. In this research which is descriptive survey model; it was sought to answer the question of how an item which has acquired an important place in the art from the past to the present day, has different meanings. And it was sought to answer the question of how a person connects with this furniture and how this connection reflects on the art.

Building of export performance through product innovation, trust, technology capability and partnerships (a study on furniture industry in Jepara Regency of Indonesia)

Building of export performance through product innovation, trust, technology capability and partnerships (a study on furniture industry in Jepara Regency of Indonesia)

Author(s): Samsul Arifin / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2021

Keywords: Export Performance; Product Innovation; Technology Capability; Partnerships; Furniture Industry;

This study aims to analyze the variables that affect furniture exports’ performance in Jepara, Indonesia, in the year 2020. A quantitative research approach is applied based on data of 307 furniture companies in Jepara, exporters in the international furniture trade market, with the desired error limit of 5%. Data consists of two types, namely primary data and secondary data. The primary data were obtained through a questionnaire that was personally submitted to 174 respondents. Secondary data used as a basis for determining the techniques and steps for collecting research data were obtained from BPS Jepara Regency and Jepara Regency Industry and Trade Office, in the form of Jepara Furniture SME (structural equation models) export volume in 2016-2020 and Jepara furniture exporters data for 2020. The results show that product innovation, trust, technological capabilities and partnerships are variables that affect the performance of furniture exports in the Jepara district.

Entrepreneurial orientation dimension affects firm performance: A perspective from the Malaysian furniture industry

Entrepreneurial orientation dimension affects firm performance: A perspective from the Malaysian furniture industry

Author(s): Fazal Akbar,Rao Aamir Khan,Fazli Wadood,Abdul Talib Bon / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

Keywords: entrepreneurial orientation; furniture industry; Malaysia; firm performance; PLS-SEM;

Objective: The main objective of this study is to verify the impact of entrepreneurial orientation dimension on firm performance of furniture industry in Malaysia. Research Design & Methods: In this study, we used a quantitative research method and collected data through a questionnaire from 391 furniture manufacturing company owners and managers, while following purposive sampling approach. The collected data was analysed using structural equation (Partial Least Square). To measure five entrepreneurial orientation dimensions, we adopted specific measuring instruments. Findings: The study shows that the three dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation - i.e. innovation, risk-taking, and competitive aggressiveness – make unique statistical contributions to the considered model. Findings indicate low levels of autonomy and proactiveness. However, the entrepreneurial orientation and FP models significantly influence the unique contribution of individual entrepreneurial activities in the Malaysian furniture industry. Implications & Recommendations: This article aims to fill the gaps in entrepreneurial orientation and performance literature within Malaysia’s context. This article provides relationship information among performance and entrepreneurial orientation existence, allowing policy-makers and management interventions to improve OE levels. Contribution & Value Added: This study indicates that there exists a strong entrepreneurial orientation among Malaysian manufacturers, which furthermore establishes and provides basis for future research, as entrepreneurial orientation strongly impacts firm performance. The article is the first one to study complete entrepreneurial orientation dimensions as uni-dimensional in Malaysian manufacturing context.

Knowledge Sharing in Teams Making Strategic Decisions in Companies – The Results of Research Carried Out in the Furniture Industry in Poland

Knowledge Sharing in Teams Making Strategic Decisions in Companies – The Results of Research Carried Out in the Furniture Industry in Poland

Author(s): Agnieszka Sopińska,Aldona Glińska-Neweś / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (92)/2021

Keywords: knowledge management; knowledge sharing; furniture industry

Purpose: The aim of this article is to present the phenomenon of knowledge sharing in decision-makingteams in companies representing the furniture industry in Poland. The analysis of the phenomenon includedthe following five aspects: assessment of the propensity to share knowledge within decision-makingteams, assessment of the significance of knowledge to be shared from the perspective of the decisionstaken, identification of the main motivations for sharing knowledge by members of the decision-makingteam, identification of dominant attitudes towards knowledge sharing, and identification of dominantforms of knowledge sharing.Design/methodology/approach: The survey was conducted in the time period March 2018 – September2019, with the use of the CATI method. The research sample included members of decision-makingteams responsible for making strategic decisions in medium-sized and large companies representingthe furniture industry in Poland.Findings: The analysis of responses delivered by 123 respondents shows that decision-makers in thefurniture industry in Poland display an average propensity to share knowledge, with a slightly higherpropensity declared by men than women; they highly value the significance of the knowledge transferred to other team members; the main motivations prompting them to share knowledge are non-monetarymotivations; the majority of them declare an attitude towards knowledge sharing labeled as ‘a knowledgetransformer’ and prefer direct contact between team members as a form of knowledge sharing.Originality/value: The study contributes to the understanding of processes related to knowledge sharing,specifically in terms of sector and market specificity.

Furniture art: the historical experience of combined multifunctional objects creation

Меблеве мистецтво: історичний досвід створення комбінованих багатофункціональних об’єктів

Author(s): Ivan Bosyi,Natalia Bryzhachenko / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: furniture art; furniture-transformers; historical prototypes of furniture; transformation systems;

The purpose of the article is to highlight the historical experience of creating combined multifunctional furniture-transformers and to reveal the main methods of combining several functions in one object of furniture art. The methodology of this work is based on the application of a number of theoretical methods of scientific research: analysis, comparison, analogy, abstraction, and generalization. Methods of analysis and comparison were used in the process of considering the evolution of furniture-transformers on the example of historical prototypes. The comparison of artistic means of surface treatment features of structural elements and characteristics of shaping allowed identifying some historical examples of furniture-transformers that were found in the electronic network without specifying the date or country of manufacture. To identify the main methods of combined furniture-transformers formation have been applied such research methods use analogy and abstraction. To summarize the results of the work it was used the generalization method. The scientific novelty of the work consists in summarizing the historical experience of combined multifunctional furniture creation and defining the leading methods of combined objects formation. Conclusions: the results of the research support the idea that in furniture art the main methods of the combination of several functions in one subject are: 1) the implementation of additional small functional blocks in a large-scale object; 2) the equal combination of two utilitarian objects in one object; 3) the multiple combinations of equivalent functional blocks into a single form.

William Chambers’s “Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, And Utensils” in Context: An Authoritative Guide To Chinese Visual Culture

William Chambers’s “Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, And Utensils” in Context: An Authoritative Guide To Chinese Visual Culture

Author(s): Albert Kozik / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2022

Keywords: William Chambers; Designs of Chinese Buildings; chinoiseries; information manage- ment; Chinese visual culture; Chinese architecture; architectural history;

Traditionally, William Chambers’s (1723-1796) Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dress- es, Machines, and Utensils (1757) have been referred to as a pattern book designed for European architects and patrons interested in the so-called “Chinese style.” This study seeks to locate Chambers’s treatise in a broader context of both the European progress in the field of (proto-)sinology and the early modern strategies of coping with the abundance of knowledge about Chinese visual culture transferred to and disseminated in Europe. Its obvious role as a pattern book notwithstanding, Chambers’s book may be presented as a part of the phenomenon that gave rise to authoritative works of reference such as scholarly Jesuit publications, i.e., compendia aimed at structuring the chaotic influx of information and reformulating it in a universally accessible way. Drawing on the research of scholars such as Ann Blair and Georg Lehner, the first part of the article centres on the problem of structuring sinological knowledge in the early modern period and the need for scholarly syntheses. In section two, the same problem of information overload was identified with regard to Chinese artistic production and its reception in Europe. Finally, the last part offers an analysis of Chambers’s Designs as a normative work of reference conceived to simultaneously standardize knowledge about Chinese visual culture and to falsify the descriptions and illustrations included in other pattern books published at the time.

Contemporary furniture from Jasienica in the context of fashion for Scandinavian style in polish furniture

Współczesne meble z Jasienicy w kontekście mody na styl skandynawski w meblarstwie polskim

Author(s): Irma Kozina / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 8/2021

Keywords: scandinavian design; furniture; Marian Grabiński; Jadwiga Husarska-Sobina; Tomasz Rygalik

The subject of the author’s considerations is the formation of the term “Scandinavian design” and its influence on Polish design from the late 1950s to the present day. The introductory part analyzes the activity of the Finmar company, which after the war was run by Paul Stemann and contributed to the promotion of the term “Scandinavian design” by popularizing the products of the Nordic countries on the markets of Western Europe and the United States. The next part of the text presents the development of cooperation of the Swedish company IKEA with Polish producers and designers, recognizing the activities of Ingvar Kamprad as an important element in the dissemination of Scandinavian furniture style in Poland. As a contemporary continuation of the Scandinavian minimalism in Polish furniture, the activities of two designers were presented: Jadwiga Husarska-Sobina and Tomasz Rygalik, who implemented their projects in cooperation with Paged Meble SA, which currently has the resources of the former Bent Furniture Factory in Jasienica.