Established in 2010, this California-based furniture company offers sleek, modern pieces made in America. Their collection covers transitional, industrial, and glam styles and they even offer customization services.
Furniture manufacturers must constantly strive to optimize their manufacturing processes so as to reduce production cycle times and costs while upholding quality and efficiency. Furthermore, they must monitor fluctuations in raw material prices and availability in order to produce top-quality furniture products.
The Global Furniture Market
Furniture manufacturers are focused on offering innovative products in order to increase their global market presence and expand sales. They employ multiple strategies in this pursuit, such as new product launches, contractual agreements with local manufacturing units in key countries, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships with regional manufacturers, increased investments and marketing initiatives – as well as eco-friendly production techniques and using sustainable raw materials in order to minimize environmental impacts.
The global furniture market is expanding at an incredible rate due to a thriving real estate industry and increased disposable income, while an aging population drives demand for furniture designed to ensure comfort and accessibility.
E-commerce furniture business has been an influential factor in this market and is projected to continue growing, although factors like input and transportation costs fluctuation as well as limited availability of skilled labor may inhibit its expansion. Furniture markets can be divided by type (RTA/residential/commercial), distribution channel and type of buyer; RTA products dominate while commercial segment is relatively smaller in scale than RTA/residential. By category the market can be broken down further into supermarkets/hypermarkets/speciality stores as well as online purchases.
Furniture Manufacturing Process
Furniture manufacturing involves multiple steps, from design through fabrication to quality control. At each stage of this process, designers use research and ideation techniques to gain insights and inspiration for the furniture they are making; sketching different concepts for it helps determine its form, function and aesthetic appeal.
Once the design is approved, engineers conduct reviews to make sure it satisfies functional, safety, and quality standards. Furthermore, engineers test furniture to identify any potential issues and work on ways to solve them.
Fabrication involves gathering all the materials needed to manufacture furniture, which may involve cutting, shaping, and sanding the raw materials. Once assembled, assembly begins: either manually putting pieces together with hand tools or by using tools and machines; once complete, testing and shipping the product to customers or retailers; at this stage customer service may provide tracking information or address any problems during delivery or assembly.
Furniture Design
Furniture design involves numerous considerations. First and foremost is having a solid understanding of who your target audience is and being able to balance aesthetics and function seamlessly. Furthermore, staying abreast of industry trends such as color trends or material developments that could influence final products is also vitally important.
Schoolhouse Furniture Company of America stands out as an American furniture maker who prioritizes “preserving American manufacturing and thoughtful living”. Although their selection may not be extensive (they only sell one sofa called Milo for example), everything they produce is top quality and stylishly constructed.
Maiden Home, another popular American furniture brand, designs its pieces in New York before having them assembled by local artisans in North Carolina for assembly. As a result, their pieces blend modern, transitional, industrial, and glam styles perfectly.
Furniture Quality Control
Furniture quality control procedures aim to ensure the final product meets a company’s desired standards and specifications, such as visual inspections, dimensional measurements, functionality testing and material tests. They may also involve evaluating suppliers providing raw materials or components used in furniture production.
Conducting regular quality inspections can protect a company’s reputation while assuring customers of high-quality furniture produced. This may result in greater customer satisfaction, increased revenue and less product returns which can be costly for manufacturers.
Pre-production quality control is essential to ensuring furniture manufacturers meet specific requirements and safety standards. This process involves assessing the quality and quantity of raw materials used, verifying storage conditions for them optimally, as well as inspecting finished pieces to assess strength/durability materials used and ensure all dimensions match up according to design.