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DMM create custom-designed or standard ranges with no quality compromise “The Final Touch” INSPIRED FOR TUBE Furniture “To produce hundreds of pieces of furniture as if they were individually made, we combine sophisticated manufacturing methods such as laser tube cutting, with more traditional craft methods such as end-finishing by hand -the final touch-”. These words come from Gian Luca Malipiero, who is the Marketing Director of DMM di Montecchio di Sant’ Angelo in Lizzola (PU). The company is an extremely modern manufacturer but with origins deeply rooted within the craft industry. By preserving its flexibility and attention to detail it has retained the ultimate respect of its clients and product integrity. Complete-integration is the “secret” DMM began life as a manufacturer of decorative metal components for furniture, and this still remains their core business in the furniture sector. “We produce components and accessories for the whole furniture industry, the kitchen sector in particular,” affirmed Signor Malipiero. “In practice, we are able to turn full circle in providing pieces for kitchens, lounges and dining rooms up to complete bar and shop furnishing.” It’s an extremely comprehensive range of products and DMM are able to supply their clients with whatever they want in quick time. The secret There is complete integration of the production software with CAD and CAM programming, dramatically reducing lead times. “In the course of the last six years, for example,” Signor Malipiero relates, “there has been an 80% reduction in design times for our main product ranges, the process is now completely automated. It must be emphasised that there is no real standard catalogue - it’s down to client choice - with infinite combinations possible for customised designs or for adaptations from a basic product.” From design idea to perfect prototype Designers are always the first link in the chain in DMM. “This is especially true in the kitchen sector where clients only give us the bare bones of an idea and basic dimensions,” says Mailpiero “and ask us to solve all the logistics”. 6
Lasers and furniture solutions DMM have relied heavily on high technology equipment to achieve its product strategy. The pick of these is their laser tube cutting system. “An ADIGE Lasertube 651 was installed more than 4 years ago. “continued Malipiero” In the beginning, we had to adopt new working practices and encourage our designers to fully recognise and completely understand the immense potential of the new laser tube cutting technology. Freed from traditional manufacturing restrictions, our designers now have an entirely new ‘plain-sheet-of-paper’ way of designing frames and assemblies based on best-for-design, best-for-manufacture and best-for-product. Creative and innovative designs that were previously thought impossible are now practical and reality with laser tube cutting technology”. Reducing lead times DMM by investing in the ADIGE Lasertube 651 system have not only added value to the design aesthetic of their products, but also achieved massive cost reductions and huge benefits in the increased productivity and flexibility that the system offers. Previously, their process involved several individual traditional operations such as: sawing, drilling, punching, notching, deburring etc… Now components can be ‘complete-machined’ on one machine, fully automatically, to the highest level of accuracy and repeatability. Eliminating 5 or 6 traditional processes has cut lead times significantly- from ten days to four days. It has also eliminated the touch-time and handling-time between processes and the accumulative error associated with consecutive machining operations. In today’s, fiercely competitive, furniture industry, where the difference between success and failure is not measured in hundredths of a millimetre, creating an aesthetically perfect, defect free product is vitally important. With the technique and technology of the ADIGE laser tube cutting system DMM is able to do just this, within the time and cost the market demands No. 2 - october 2004 INSPIRED FOR TUBE Furniture 7
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