A large portion of the traditional home furnishing industry has moved production out of the US to China.  Now, inflation in China and ever increasing transportation costs are making it increasingly difficult to continue down that path.  Other low labor areas of the world offer their own serious problems and the technically obsolete furniture factories in the US are not a good option either.  The industry is looking for a direction.

 

The author offers an exciting new direction in this book.  A new factory structure and new technology that actually works.  Not pie in the sky ideas, but practical, prove technology and techniques that can build traditional furniture competitively, right here in the United States, using well-paid American workers and something America excels in, technology. 

 

In this book, he details how this is being done, why it works and why the old structure failed.  Written for the furniture executive, he clearly and carefully describes the new approach and technology and how it differs from the failed systems of the past.  He shows how using technology and techniques common to other industries can transform the American furniture industry into a vibrant, growing and exciting new business.

 

This is a must read for anyone who makes their living in any portion of the furniture industry and wants to understand all the changes, problems and opportunities happening all around them.