Expanding on work previously conducted with the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center, the current project continues the evaluation of how parametric-based 3-D CAD and product data management (PDM) software tools can be utilized better in the furniture industry. The central focus of this work is the development of a demonstration system which uses a parametrically driven 3-D CAD/PDM sys...

1 Department of Furniture and Decoration Education, Dumlupinar University, 43500 Simav-Kutahya, Turkey. 2 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Giresun University, Giresun Vocational School, 28048, Giresun-Turkey. 3 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin Vocational School, 08000, Artvin-Turkey. 4 Department of Forest Industrial Engineering, Artvin Coruh Univer...

Rearranging furniture in elementary school classrooms encourages classroom activities. In elementary schools in Indonesia and some other developing countries, usually only one style of furniture is used for all children, and the furniture is heavy and oversized for younger children. This affects their ability to carry it. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of elementary s...

Classical scrapie is an environmentally transmissible prion disease of sheep and goats. Prions can persist and remain potentially infectious in the environment for many years and thus pose a risk of infecting animals after re-stocking. In vitro studies using serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification (sPMCA) have suggested that objects on a scrapie-affected sheep farm could contribute to di...

The furniture industry is one of the largest industries in Sukoharjo Regency. Indeed, this able to penetrate international market share so that it has great potential. Behind potential, possible there are potential hazards and work risks arise manufacture furniture. This study aims determine application occupational health safety research uses data analysis method with hazard operability method...

In this paper, a modeling method to handle furniture is proposed. In real environment, there is a lot of furniture such as drawer, cabinet and so on. If mobile robots can handle these furniture autonomously, it is expected that multiple daily tasks, for example, storing a small object in a drawer, can be performed by the robots. However, it is a perplexing process to give several pieces of know...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between change in lung function and cumulative exposure to wood dust. In total, 1,112 woodworkers (927 males, 185 females) and 235 reference workers (104 males, 185 females) participated in a 6-yr longitudinal study. Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV(1)), forced vital capacity (FVC), height and weight were measured, and ...

Who loses and who gains from globalisation is one of the big questions of our time. The people of East and South East Asia were thought be among the winners until the financial crisis hit this region in 1997. Indonesia, it seemed, suffered particularly badly with millions of people sinking into poverty. However, it became clear soon after that some parts of Indonesia had actually benefited from...