Client Story

New Software Doubles Daily Output for Morrow Furniture

Morrow Furniture in Auckland, New Zealand, recently purchased a Biesse Skill CNC router to better fit their manufacturing needs. The company’s on board CNC software sufficed for much of its work, but before long, the more complex nature of a number of contracts required more specialized software.

“Our work is varied and one-off," said second-generation family member, Matt Morrow. “And we needed software to prepare work for the router that facilitated this.”

“We researched online and talked to colleagues before inviting Tim Veale from Microvellum to give us a demonstration of the software. We immediately liked what we saw, but as AWISA was coming up, decided to attend the show in Melbourne and have a good look at alternatives before finalizing our decision. After AWISA we chose Microvellum, confident that it was user friendly, comprehensive in its scope and did curved work very well - which was important.”

The company has three software operators, including Matt, who all have picked it up fairly easily, despite having a limited background in software for design and production.

“Initial demonstrations and personal tuition from Tim was very good and we needed very little after that. Any queries or problems and we simply call Tim, and he goes online and fixes or explains them. The library setup that comes with Microvellum provided us with 300 cabinets that we can chop and change to suit the current job. We did need this library adapted to our methods because we use stop rebates to construct our cabinets. Tim did this at the start so all the cabinets in our library reflect that method," added Matt.

“I can’t believe how fast it [Microvellum Software] is. It has sped up the whole process. Previously, using the on board software, we may have processed around 30 boards a day. On a recent job, we processed 70. It does everything - all the hinge work, drilling, rebates and any changes automatically flow right through the entire job which is very time saving.”

“It is simple to use, draw a square on a panel and tell it you want to cut that out and it will do it, you can literally draw anything you want to be cut out – you simply need to learn to push the right buttons. It has opened up new work for us, we recently did a Maori carving, something we would previously have sent straight out to a sign writer. It is an awesome system, from the first demonstration we thought it would suit us well and so it has proved," Matt concluded.



About Morrow Furniture

Established in 1981, Morrow Furniture specializes in high quality commercial and domestic fit outs. Their cabinetmakers have a highly regarded reputation for craftsmanship and quality, and are renowned for taking on any complicated work put their way.


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