Trip to NC State University

On February 11th, our class made a trip to NC State Furniture Manufacturing Center.

We visited three different rooms in this department; the first one was the Product Testing and Evaluation Laboratory, here designers can test furniture's durability.

 

Another room that we went was the Rapid Prototyping Lab, where different objects and materials could be made. Some of these machines worked for making plastics and titanium objects. 

We also visited the Wood shop where we were able to see the five-axis CNC Machine and some other tools like a laser printer for wood.

The last room that we visited was the metal working room. This room had a variety of huge machines capable to bend and cut metals of bigger dimensions.  There were also some machines that could work with plastics.