Sökning: "furniture production"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden furniture production.
1. Produktionsnoveller : Om Folkforms arbete med Masonite och andra material
Sammanfattning : A large part of the production today is manufactured so far from the consumer that there is no connection to the production. That there have historically been direct connections between an industry and the people, local traditions and material assets of the place is easily forgotten. LÄS MER
2. Furniture for Later Life: Design Based on Older People’s Experiences of Furniture in Three Housing Forms
Sammanfattning : This thesis in industrial design concerns the challenges and possibilities in meeting demographic shifts and the presumed expectations of today’s and tomorrow’s older generations. The background is the lack of furniture that responds to the demands of older consumers and the lack of knowledge about relationships between people and furniture in their home environments and in various forms of elderly care environments. LÄS MER
3. Performing Co-production : On the logic and practice of shopping at IKEA
Sammanfattning : Contemporary western society has often been described as a “consumer society” in relation to the producer oriented form that characterised the industrial society. While consumer habits used to be seen as a reflection of a person’s occupational status or place in a stable societal hierarchy, it has now become recognised as a practice through which people’s identity and status is partially defined by the choices they make as consumers. LÄS MER
4. Lean Remanufacturing : Reducing Process Lead Time
Sammanfattning : Remanufacturing is a product recovery option in which used products are brought back into useful life. While the remanufacturing industry stretches from heavy machinery to automotive parts, furniture, and IT sectors, it faces challenges. LÄS MER
5. Experience of furniture in homes: Creating conditions for the design with consideration to people in the third age
Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis in industrial design concerns the challenge and opportunity to meet the demographic changes and the future senior market. The aim is to explore how various user-centered design methods can be combined, modified and practiced to create conditions for the design of totally new or improved products. LÄS MER