Ductile Design Of The Existing Office Furniture

Chinese office furniture industry is facing much more opportunities and challenges underthe background of globalization of Information and trade. Since the seller’s market had turnedinto buyer’s market, the only way to stand out of the competition is the products which can meetdifferent needs of customers adequately. Office furniture enterprises in china try to attractcustomers through rapid innovation, develop new products. It is reported that many officefurniture enterprises of moderate design ability development a series of new product in only afew months, so it is very reasonable to suspect the value of their new products.This research choose a new perspective: is it possible to meet the needs of customers withthe existing products which is mature designed and market tested？This paper analysis thecontradictions between the customer`s multiple demands and limited development abilitydeeply, then put forward the idea that solving the problem by reincorporation and optimizationof the existing products. The main part of this paper is the visualization of the ductile design ofthe existing office furniture; Firstly disconnect the existing furniture into parts and establishaccessories library; Secendly, choose accessories from different accessories library and combinethem into product; Thirdly, put out more pruducts through change the CMF of basic product;Finaly, product-space configuration.This study uses the methods of scientific literature analysis and theoretical analysis and thegeometric analysis, morphology analysis, correlation analysis and etc. Here are the conclusions:(1)The fact that customer needs infinite variety and office furniture enterprise’s productfamily cannot be enlarged unlimitedly is objective existence. However, different customerdemondes has a unified essence, namely create a satisfactory environment basic customer`soffice work mode;(2)It is feasible to realize infinite output of products through rebuild the existing productsbased on " Alessandro deserti" model;(3)Compared with the traditional product family-product line-product planningmanagement of the project, the construction and management of product parts family is moresuitable for office furniture enterprises;(4)In the process of disconnecting the existing furniture into parts，it is reasonable to takefunctional components or function module as the basic unit;(5)The process of recombinating accessories is not a simple combination of parts, but thereconfiguration of function. In the process of combinating accessories into product should takethose questions: into consideration: whether the structure is reasonable and whether the partsneed to be modified or adjusted;(6) The result CMF fissioning is infinite，so the enterprise should evaluation the results and choose the good ones form them. Enterprises should establish regular colour, material libraryqualitative library and craft library base on their own brand characteristics, product gene, andmarket feedback;(7)There is no best propuct but only the most suitable product for customers, hence it isnecessary to analysis the relationship among human, furniture and interior space of workplace.Before configure products for a specific space, it is important to study the function andemotional of the room.