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From Fittings to Artificial Intelligence: Digitization Moves Into Workshops and Offices
This week in the furniture and office industry brings two takes on the same trend – design automation. On one side, a free app making life easier for Polish carpentry workshops; on the other, American software that uses AI to redesign an office layout faster than it would take us to move a single desk. Let's take a look at what's new at the intersection of furniture, technology, and office work.
01 · Design Tools
Hettich Konstruktor: a free design assistant for carpentry workshops [1]
Hettich Polska has decided to support smaller furniture manufacturers by launching the Hettich Konstruktor app – a free tool that combines three stages of furniture design work in one place. The program lets users configure a project, automatically select the right fittings for it – drawers, hinges, runners – and finally generate complete technical documentation: cutting lists, fitting specifications, and drawings with marked drilling positions [1].
The app is aimed primarily at carpenters, made-to-order furniture manufacturers, architects, and interior designers, who until now had to do these calculations by hand or outsource them to specialists. The application is available after registration on the manufacturer's website, and account verification takes up to three business days [1]. The biggest benefit is meant to be time saved – fewer manual calculations, fewer errors in the documentation, and easier communication between designer and contractor, which in practice means faster turnaround on custom orders [1].
This is a good example of how furniture component suppliers are ceasing to be mere "screw sellers" and are becoming technology partners for the entire production process – something especially valuable for smaller workshops that don't have the budget for expensive CAD software.
02 · AI in the Office
OfficeSpace Studio: AI redesigns the office on the fly [2]
If digitization is reaching the furniture production process itself, it was bound to show up on the other side too – in the management of the spaces where that furniture ultimately ends up. OfficeSpace, an American provider of office management software, has unveiled Studio – an AI-assisted floor plan editor [2].
Studio lets facility and workplace management teams import CAD files, update the office layout, and visualize changes in 3D, and the finished plans can be published immediately as interactive views for employees. In practice, this means redesigning an office to match shifting hybrid-work attendance no longer has to mean weeks of waiting for an outside architect [2].
The manufacturer also introduced three additional AI features at the same time. OfficeSpace MCP connects office data with assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT, letting employees book desks and meeting rooms with a simple natural-language command, without losing existing permissions and access rules. Recurring Requests automates repeat service tickets, eliminating manual scheduling and keeping track of SLA deadlines. Space Planning Block View, meanwhile, gives space planners a single view with progress metrics for each floor, without having to switch between screens [2].
All of this fits into a growing trend in which artificial intelligence is no longer just an add-on to office software but is becoming its operational core – deciding where a desk stands and who uses it on any given day.
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Two Sides of the Same Coin
Hettich Konstruktor and OfficeSpace Studio are separated by an ocean and a difference in business scale, but they share one thing: both companies concluded that what eats up the most time in the furniture and office industry isn't the creative work itself, but repetitive calculations and redesigning things from scratch. Automating these stages – whether it's selecting fittings or arranging desks – frees up designers' hands for what actually requires a human idea.
We'll find out where the digitization of furniture and workspaces is heading live at BIUROTECH 2027 – Targi Mebli i Technologii Meblarskich dla Biur i Biznesu. We invite you to keep following the next installments of our industry roundup, and to save the date in your calendar – see you at the trade fair!
Invitation
If the topic of digitizing furniture design and intelligent office space management caught your interest, that's just a taste of what awaits at BIUROTECH 2027. See the latest tools for carpentry workshops and AI-based office planning systems live, and talk to the technology providers who are transforming the office furniture industry. Save the date and discover how automation shortens the path from design to a finished workspace.
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[1] Meblarstwo24.pl — https://meblarstwo24.pl/nowosci-rynkowe/akcesoria/hettich-konstruktor-od-pomyslu-do-gotowej-dokumentacji-mebla/[2] GlobeNewswire — https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/17/3364046/0/en/officespace-launches-studio-advancing-its-ai-operating-system-for-the-built-world.html