The Design And Exploration Of The Ready To Assembly Sofa

Presently, the sofa product homogenization is serious; the market demand tends to diversification. Meanwhile, the sofa manufacturing technology develops slowly, the mechanization and the automaticity are low, and in the working procedure there are too much manual technical ingredient; How to enhance enterprise's competitive power through the improvement design and the technology is the key question of the enterprise live or death.This article embarked from practical angle, using system theory, the taxonomy method. From the traditional sofa design, production foundation, proposed "ready to assembly sofa design" concept; And around the " ready to assembly sofa design" this target, studying a series of related issues, such as ready to assembly sofa product design, disassemble structure, design applications and so on.Through analyzing, the author summarized two key points should be understood, which were ready to assembly sofa design product factors and the technical essential factors. Included ready to assembly the basic function of the sofa design, the modeling and the structural feature; As well as the structure design principle which is sofa functional unit and connection structure relations, sofa shape and connection structure relations, sofa material and connection structure relations, as well as product whole security and so on.At the same time, combined with corporate strategy and the idea of green design, the author did a conceptual design. Then combined with IKEA, Trayton company case studies; The author further summarized five principles of ready to assembly sofa design, which must followed in the design, are consumer's demand for beauty; standardization, generalization,seriation of the component and parts; production development feasibility, cost rationality; as well as environmental protection principle of design.In tradition design of the sofa and actual production, there are a number of problems, such as template complex, inter-process logistics is not compact, low mechanization level. The author has done a comparative analysis between the tradition sofa production and sofa manufacturing which have been designed as a ready to assembly sofa. Then he summarized the ready to assembly sofa design be able to simplify the template design to a certain extent, the simplification material category, the convenient spare part's standardization, raised the production efficiency of the sofa enterprise, facilitated the specialized craft and designers' raise. In the product homogenization more serious competition time, it can effectively enhance the competitive power of the enterprise.