Son yıllardaki mobilya tasarımlarında, işletmelerin sadece kapak konstrüksiyonlarındaki değişiklikler ile yeni modeller oluşturarak pazarında yer almaya çalıştıkları görülmektedir. Bu kapsamda, özellikle mutfak mobilyasında kullanılan türleri değerlendirilmiştir. Çok çeşitli ürün yelpazesi olan endüstrisinde, mutfak, banyo, ofis, TV üniteleri gibi modül standartlarının bulunduğu alanlarda, kapa...

Three-dimensional Computer-aided Design (CAD) and Product Data Management (PDM) software used over LANs has seen strong growth in the 1990's. However, the introduction of computing and networking tools within an organization has greatly outpaced the organizational restructuring needed to maximally leverage the technology; the introduction of 3-D product models distributed and managed over LANs ...

This paper experiments application of different heuristic approaches to a real facility layout problem at a furniture manufacturing company. All the models are compared using AHP, where a number of parameters of interest are employed. The experiment shows that formal layout modelling approaches can be effectively used real problems faced in industry, leading to significant improvements.

The relationship between asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma is no longer disputed, although it is not always easy to trace past occupational exposure. This report describes a case of uncommon asbestos exposure of a small furniture industry worker, who subsequently died of pleural malignant mesothelioma, to stress the crucial importance of a full reconstruction of the occupational hist...

In a highly globalized market in which companies are currently developing, logistics appears as a business strategy applying various organizations to achieve competitive advantage and stay in the market. Market pressure to reduce the costs of goods and increasingly customized products and services, are leading companies to adopt new business strategies, and logistics seems to be a good strategy...