Is IKEA's "Furniture assembled within 5 minutes without tooling" really completed in 5 minutes?

IKEA offers low-priced furniture products without compromising fashionability by business models on the premise that customers take from product take-away to assembly, but for those without much DIY experience even a little assembly The difficulty level will be high. Such IKEA announced "Furniture that can be assembled within 5 minutes from flat pack condition without any tools".

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Where you actually assemble furniture within 5 minutes and developers interview can be seen from the following.

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Four people are assembling furniture.


One of the furniture that can be assembled within 5 minutes from the state of the flat pack is like this.


"It's very quick to assemble and everything is already installed, so there will not be parts left out."


"Revolutionary furniture that does not require any tool, such as screwdriver for assembly"


In the way of assembly, one of the paired connectionsDubboSince it is in a state where it is stuck, connect the dowel to the dowel hole on the other panel.


Push it in until the gap between the board and the board disappears ... ...


By pushing from the top, the mechanism to fix the connection and the connection part.


To the furniture series assembled within 5 minutes, a glass door cabinet scheduled to be sold at $ 349 (about 38,000 yen) ......


Various types of wooden furniture are scheduled to be released, including half-size cupboards and coffee tables that are supposed to be priced from $ 139 (about 15,000 yen).


Dubbo of this slightly different form that made easy and quick assembly possible.


"Furniture series already assembled within 5 minutes is in the manufacturing stage"


Since the dowels are attached to the panel from the beginning, there is no need for the user to push in with hardship.


In the meantime, the furniture that the four people made earlier became in shape.


Since the back plate of the shelf also just inserts a folding type plywood board, no tools are especially necessary.


In addition, some of the parts inside are made with a strength that is not honeycomb structure as below, and a poplar veneer board is stretched on the surface.


"We can reduce the amount of lumber used by environmental friendly design, reduce the production energy at the factory, we can keep the strength above the practical level and because it is lightweight you can easily carry it It is. "


That's why one man completed a bookshelf and got a pose.


"It's about two minutes? 3 minutes? ... 3 minutes and 30 seconds? I felt it was faster, because it was a lot of fun to assemble."


Since IKEA furniture is mostly one that takes more than 30 minutes only to assemble one piece of furniture, if furniture completed in 3 minutes and 30 seconds is released after 5 minutes, you can shop without considering the assembly effort I am glad. Also, people who thought "to assemble themselves is troublesome" may also consider purchasing if this is easy.