The Research On Application Of Group Technology In Furniture Manufacture

The furniture industry is one of the conventional industry in China, also is a quickly developing industry. With entering the WTO, the furniture enterprises canceling the tariff wall of the imports and exports, the furniture enterprises and the manufacture in our country are grading because of the furious competition and challenge with the abroad enterprises. Therefore, how do furniture enterprises develop themselves? Now, the furniture enterprises meet a common problem that is transiting the production patterns from the large batch to the small batch with various kinds. And it will adapt to the need of the furniture market, also will be the new chase of the consumer. Therefore, it should reform the production patterns and technology.Analyzing the actuality of furniture industry, the actuality of furniture production, the development current of the furniture industry, and development countermeasure of furniture enterprises, this paper advances the resolving way, that is group technology. Group technology has the components grouped by the principium of comparability, so it transits the production from the small batch and various kinds to the large batch. By analyzing the elements of group technology, it advances the method of component information-input, the function and method of the component classification coding, and the classification method of the structure fashion. The basis of the analogizing the structure of furniture, it proves the feasibility of the group technology from the facets of the material, the structure and the manufacture technics. Then, it advances the feasibility precepts of the application of group technology in different taches in furniture manufacture as follows:(1) Advancing the plants constitutes of the need of the group technology by analyzing the traditional manufacture plant.(2) Advancing the methods of the serial number of the production, the standardization of the dimension of the furniture production and the furniture fittings in furniture design.(3) Advancing the ideas of setting up the storerooms of the standard technics, the type technics, and explanation technics in furniture production technic design.The group technology resolves the contradiction between the need of small batch of the furniture market and the need of the large batch of the furniture production.