For those operating in the custom furnishings sector, from design to production to installation

Custom furnishing orders represent a formidable challenge both for technical designers and for manufacturers, since, very often, they have to manage the entire process up to final installation on site.

Perhaps especially so in the world of luxury furnishings, from large villas to luxury boutiques, to the shared spaces in hotels or cruise ships, the complexity resides in the need to balance creativity and originality with practicality and technical feasibility. Extreme customisation requires attention to every detail, however small, and everything has to be managed particularly carefully in order to satisfy the customer’s expectations.

PROGENIO MAXX® and the Planstudio suite of applications have been created to help you overcome – with the greatest agility – the typical challenges that arise in a custom order.

There are many challenges in orders involving custom furnishings:

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

Extreme customisation and technical feasibility

Customers often request unique, “outside the box” solutions. Designers have to find the right balance between creativity and technical feasibility in order to meet expectations.

Implementing highly customised projects can represent a huge challenge from a technical point of view. It is, therefore, essential to ensure that the proposed solutions can be implemented and meet all the performance and aesthetic requirements demanded by the customer.

The use of specific, innovative solutions is essential in order to successfully handle the complexity of a custom furnishings order and to avoid errors and significant loss of time.

COORDINATION

Materials, special components and cost management

Custom orders often involve the use of special materials and components, which are sometimes hard to source and expensive. The procurement and logistics activities needed to manage these materials can increase the cost of production and make tracking expenses more difficult.

For manufacturing companies, it is essential to accurately estimate and then carefully control every cost, in order to be able to identify any potential variances with the customer and to quickly manage any discrepancies to avoid any greater risk or harm. Poor order management could also compromise the company’s margins and its reputation.

TIMING

Tight timescales and deadlines, how communication affects results

Technical studies and manufacturing companies have to organise themselves in the most efficient and effective way in order to hit the agreed deadlines.

The greatest issue that arises is the lack of proper communication between customers, designers, manufacturers and the work site. This is a consequence of a lack of understanding, wasted time and having to remake components as a result of misunderstandings and errors.

QUALITY

Complexity of the details and quality control

Customer projects can involve a huge variety of details and specifications, which require painstaking attention, care and precision.

One critical factor for the success of any custom project is rigorous quality control. During each phase of the process, from design to production, you need to perform thorough, detailed checks in order to ensure that each and every component meets the required quality standards.

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PROGENIO MAXX® offers a set of features designed to help you overcome any aspect of the design and production of custom furnishings: from large villas to luxury boutiques, to the shared spaces in hotels or cruise ships, where perfectly managing the order is absolutely essential.

With PROGENIO MAXX®you can:

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

Obtain design flexibility and interoperability

In the custom furnishings sector, design flexibility, interoperability and change management are essential in order to deal with the challenges of custom orders. With PROGENIO MAXX®, you have the design flexibility that allows you to adapt to each customer’s unique requests and to manage any changes that might be requested as the order is being executed. You have the greatest interoperability that enables an effective and efficient flow of work between the various corporate departments and facilitates collaboration with external suppliers. You can leverage a streamlined change management process that lets you handle requests during the execution of the order without compromising the final quality of the product and ensuring customer satisfaction and the overall success of the entire order.

COORDINATION

Manage multi-level orders with automatic encoding

The management of multi-level orders with automatic encoding plays a fundamental role. This organisational approach provided by PROGENIO MAXX® allows the project to be broken down into clear, identifiable phases through unique codes. Automatic encoding simplifies the management of component identities and promotes traceability, cost control and collaboration between the various corporate departments and suppliers.

In addition, automatic encoding allows the data relating to each order to be stored in an orderly, systematic way, facilitating access to past information and improving the overall efficiency of the production process for example, even during the maintenance phase.

The advantages are exponential: process optimisation, error reduction and guaranteed quality of the final product.

TIMING

Automatically generate technical drawings and lists of requirements

PROGENIO MAXX® offers automation in generating technical drawings in such formats as A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 among others, enabling a customised and highly detailed presentation. Furthermore, the ability to save data in a DWG, DXF or PDF format promotes data sharing with suppliers and customers, thereby improving collaboration and efficiency. These features in PROGENIO MAXX® optimise order management and ensure fluid, seamless communication amongst every party involved in the project.

And the automatic generation of lists of requirements broken down by supplier, with all the related information such as dimensions, finishes, quantities, weight, volumes and so on, results in guaranteeing an efficient and precise production process. With all the information provided in a clear, unambiguous way, suppliers can fully understand the requests made of them and produce the specific materials with precision, reducing the risk of error and delays in delivery.

QUALITY

Manage the entire process from design to production to installation

PROGENIO MAXX® lets you manage the entire order process, from design to production to installation, with numerous advantages, including greater coordination, efficiency, cost control, customisation and adaptability. This integrated approach leads to a reduction in errors and risk, guaranteeing a high quality final result.

Coordination between the various process phases and sharing information in real time improve overall efficiency and allow decisions to be taken in a timely manner and delays and discrepancies to be avoided.

In addition, the ability to adapt to changing customer needs during any order execution phase results in greater customisation of products whilst maintaining outstanding final product quality, thus meeting the customer’s expectations.

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In summary, adopting PROGENIO MAXX® and the Planstudio suite of applications delivers numerous benefits, including greater customisation, efficiency, collaboration and quality control. These solutions allow companies to supply high quality products, thereby satisfying the customer’s needs whilst maintaining a competitive market position.

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