Furniture Manufacturing Tolerances: Why Custom Furniture Cannot Be Built to “Zero Variation”
A drawing may specify a dining chair at exactly 580 mm wide. Does that mean every chair leaving the production line will measure precisely 580.00 mm? No. And that does not automatically indicate poor manufacturing. Furniture is produced from materials that are cut, welded, bent, sanded, upholstered, woven and assembled. Many of those materials also