Case 02 · Upholstered Furniture · South America
LHC1610 single-ply cutter and SPX6 spreader pairing for a sofa group — replaced 4 manual cells with one digital line.
A regional sofa manufacturer in São Paulo, Brazil produces ~1,800 cushion sets per week across mid- and high-end SKUs. The existing four manual-cutting cells had inconsistent yield on jacquard upholstery and could not handle a new line of laminated synthetics.
The Challenge
Jacquard pattern matching needed Vision-assisted alignment. The new laminated material risked delamination on traditional rotary blades. Floor space had to drop, not grow.
The Solution
favorable replaced the four cells with one LHC1610 single-ply cutter (vacuum bed, vertical knife head) plus an SPX6 spreader and a Gen III plotter for marker output. Total floor area dropped 41%, with no operators eliminated — they were retrained as operators of the digital line.
- LHC1610Single-ply cutter with vision-assisted nesting
- SPX6Spreader paired with the cutter for continuous feed
- Gen III plotterCAD marker output to drape pattern
Results
- −41%Floor area used by cutting line
- +27%Daily cushion sets
- 4→1Manual cells consolidated to digital line
Customer Voice
“Replacing four cells with one was the easy part. The hard part was retraining the team — favorable's on-site training programme made it routine.”
Operations director · South American furniture group