At present, the domestic epidemic prevention and control has achieved phased results, foreign epidemics are still serious. Post-epidemic era, for enterprises, is a challenge, but also full of opportunities, in the office furniture industry, is also true.

We live in an environment that affects the change of lifestyle, since the beginning of the year, the epidemic has led to overseas home office has become the new normal, office furniture from the office space to the home space, intelligent lifting tables and ergonomic chairs online demand blowout. How to better meet the needs of the home office has become a new focus for the development of the industry.

Reviewing the history of the development of intelligent lifting tables, it is not difficult to find that, under the promotion of the office furniture industry, intelligent lifting tables, by virtue of the unique value it brings, has now become the first choice of many enterprises to improve the office environment. Now, riding on the east wind of overseas home office, the development of intelligent lifting table ushered in the second take-off.

Linear drive, new tools and inspiration for designers to innovate

Lifting tables on the market are divided into three categories: electric, pneumatic and hand-cranked, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages, and in a comprehensive comparison, electric has a clear advantage in the use of experience, and at the same time, electric is also the basis of product intelligence. Therefore, electric intelligent lifting table is the future of lifting table products.

Intelligent lifting table, or intelligent adjustable furniture design is based on "linear drive" and development. To put it plainly, "linear drive can make the traditional products around us move", linear drive is also known as electric actuator, lifting column, plus control box, hand controller, is a complete set of linear drive products.

Linear drive is a key device to realize the motion control function of intelligent terminal products, and its principle is to convey the instruction to the mechanical structure through the control system, so that the circumferential motion of the motor is converted into the linear motion of the actuator, so as to achieve the effect of pushing, pulling and lifting heavy objects.

Linear drive control system is not composed of a single motor itself, but contains the design + motor + controller + sensor of the entire drive system, design + software + hardware, including industrial design, mechanical, electrical, materials, design, computers and other multi-disciplinary comprehensive integration.

For the application of linear drive in the office scene, at present more mature, there are single, double, triple, negotiation, class desk and other lifting table, can be all-round, flexible to meet the needs of different styles, functional purposes, area size office space. In addition, linear drive can be innovative in many products such as conference tables, multimedia devices, lecterns and so on.

A complete intelligent lifting table consists of many parts such as lifting column, controller, hand controller, frame, side board, alignment groove, floor feet, casters, etc. One layer further down, the lifting column is divided into positive and inverted, square and round, three sections and two sections, as well as different processes and colors. By innovating and combining each part, the electric lift table has unlimited possibilities.

Extending outward to link AIoT, lifting table after the Internet of Things, data will become the soil for the development of the value of the lifting table, especially in the management of the office space, the improvement of the efficiency of individual workstations, and the health management of individuals at the level of health management.

Designers' innovation of lift tables can be like playing with Legos, by deconstructing and reconstructing the lift table elements and recombining them into distinctive smart lift table products.

As an innovation enabler of intelligent lifting table products, JETRO focuses on linear drives for more than 20 years, and has 15 years of technical and programmatic precipitation in intelligent lifting table products applied in the office furniture industry, which can help designers and partners to create market-leading intelligent office furniture products.

The concept of healthy office is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the intelligent lifting table is popular all over the world.

The concept of healthy office originated in Europe and penetrated into North America, and laws and regulations are the driving force behind the increase in penetration rate.

Between up and down, it is another world, a new way of life. Combined with ergonomic design, intelligent lifting table products that can meet the needs of standing and sitting alternately in the office, bring a healthy office lifestyle for people in the workplace, avoiding the hazards of sitting for a long time. At the same time, it also improves the office efficiency of employees.

Europe and the United States have clear legal provisions, "the working height must be suitable for each employee and job function", "the employer must provide its employees with adjustable office furniture". Sound laws, union organization, and the functional value of the product itself have propelled Smart Lift Desks from an optional to a mandatory consumer product.

Smart Lift Desks have become the solution of choice for companies looking to improve their office environments, and JetChange Drives has helped customers improve the office environments of more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with high-quality lift desk systems. Like Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, GE, Intel, General Motors and so on.

We know that consumption is graded, the development logic of intelligent lifting table is to undertake consumption upgrading, and linear drive products applied to the terminal of the intelligent products are products belonging to the category of consumption upgrading.

On the one hand, there is a new demand: consumption upgrading, people's pursuit of a better quality of life, resulting in consumer demand. Elevated table products are well catered to and meet the needs of the European and American market consumption upgrade.

On the other hand, it is the new supply: category upgrading, one is the traction of market demand, the market needs more intelligent, humanized, comfortable and healthy products. The second is the inevitable result of the development of competition in the industry, the office furniture industry has developed to a mature stage, the product homogenization is serious, the need for enterprise cross-border innovation to break the game, develop differentiated products, category upgrade.

Over the past few years, intelligent lifting table is an important factor in the evolution of the office furniture industry, with forward-looking participants to seize the opportunity of the development of intelligent lifting table market, to achieve rapid development.

Under the epidemic, smart lift tables ushered in a second development opportunity, becoming the new favorite of the global C-suite consumer market and entering individual households. This requires companies in the office furniture industry to build network sales channels, as well as based on consumer scenarios, to provide better lifting table products to undertake the needs of home office.

In the perspective of the market, every change is an opportunity!

The development of intelligent lifting table products is from Europe and the United States to the Asia-Pacific, from office space to home space, from personal to shared, as well as applied to different people's work and life scenes.

From Europe and America to Asia-Pacific

Due to the concept and economic development and other factors, the penetration of electric lifting table in the world is very different, but the situation in the United States and Europe may become a reference for the future development of the world. At present, the penetration rate of the Asia-Pacific lifting table market is relatively low, and there is still much room for growth.

With the Asia-Pacific market for the healthy office concept of recognition, economic development, intelligent lift table products will be fully popularized in the Asia-Pacific market. Deakin University (Deakin University) study found that if the lifting table will be promoted to 20% of the Australian workforce, will bring huge benefits. The study also showed that implementing the use of lift tables would reduce absenteeism, increase productivity and save billions of dollars in healthcare costs in the long run.

Recently, a number of international organizations have released their mid-year economic outlooks, and while lowering their expectations for the global economic outlook, they believe that China will drive the Asia-Pacific region's economic recovery and become a major driver of world economic growth.

Moving from office space to home

According to Global Workplace Analytics, 5 million (3.6%) employees in the U.S. were working from home more than half the time as of March, but the research shows that 75 million (56%) of employees have jobs that can be done at least in part from home. The number of people working from home is likely to grow further as the overall epidemic in the U.S. remains unabated.

Since March, Google, Facebook and other technology companies have launched "Work From Home" (home office), Facebook even announced that it would allow some employees to work from home permanently.In July, Google again extended its home office policy, meaning that 200,000 Google employees will work at home until the summer of 2021. At the same time, some U.S. tech companies pay up to $1,000 in home office expenses for employees who work from home, such as purchasing smart lifting desks and ergonomic chairs.

The outbreak won't be permanent, so where does the future of working from home lead?Research by Global Workplace Analytics shows that 76% of employees want to keep working from home after the outbreak is over. But only 16% of them want this to be permanent. While 70% of employers believe that employees working from home essentially perform at the same level as the traditional way, they also don't want to give up the office altogether. So it seems that an office that combines the two environments of home and work will become a more acceptable arrangement for both sides.

On August 7, according to Tencent Technology, Twitter and other tech companies will support permanent home office for their employees, and Facebook will allow employees to work from home until July 2021 and permit them to apply for permanent telecommuting. The company's chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) expects that by 2030, half of the company's employees will telecommute.

For more than half a century, the knowledge economy has been built around the traditional office role, and now, with the smart home office being mentioned many times and the change likely to continue, a new era of more flexible, healthy, and productive work is opening up.

From personal to shared

Today, with the cost of office space in cosmopolitan cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, New York and Tokyo climbing higher every year, many companies are looking to reduce the cost of workstations through proper planning. Due to the work attributes of office personnel, not all employees are always in the office office, for example: sales staff need to travel frequently, then through effective management, may be 200 workstations to meet the office needs of 300 people.

Intelligent lifting table after the Internet of things, you can realize the workstation reservation and office space cloud management, cloud data services can effectively improve the efficiency of the use of corporate office space, each intelligent lifting table workstation usage can be recorded, including whether the workstation is idle, by whom to use, the use of time and other aspects. At present, the mobile workstations in the public office space and the shared office in the co-working space have been realized, which can provide innovative management solutions for the shared office model. In the future, the intelligent lifting table will be more widely used under the concept and mode of shared office.

Applied to different people's work and life scenarios

Applied in the children's learning scene, electric lifting instead of the traditional hand crank lifting, and at the same time give the "wisdom +" functional value.

In recent years, the popularity of intelligent electric study tables and chairs has increased year by year among parents, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 60% from 2016 to 2019.

According to the Foresight Economist, China's children's study tables largely follow the development trajectory of children's study tables in Western schools. From the composition of the material and the history of development, the two are not significantly different, both have experienced miscellaneous wood manufacturing (first generation) - steel and wood combined (second generation) - hard plastic alternative stage; from the shape, from a single form gradually transitioned to lift, connecting type, etc., more in line with the Ergonomics of a variety of forms. At present, the children's study tables and chairs have entered the third stage, that is, product innovation, high quality, efficient and fast service and other levels, pay more attention to the sustainable development of the brand, which is also the stage of many brands are vigorously developing at the moment.

The fourth stage, that is, the intelligent stage, more emphasis on the construction of a more integrated ecological relationship between people and products, through the application of intelligent technology, advocating dynamic learning mode, the first proposed "wisdom +" concept, innovative tables and chairs and intelligent devices, such as smart lights combined with dynamic sensing technology to solve the children's learning process of the guardianship problem, and through the APP synchronized collection of children's learning time, and through the APP synchronized collection of children's learning time. And through the APP synchronized collection of children's learning posture data, accurate analysis, and put forward a scientific overall solution.

Another application scenario is e-sports. At present, e-sports peripherals and e-sports chairs are popular in the market, and plowing into the e-sports ecosystem requires the creation of more professional and innovative products to bring players a better gaming experience. And the gaming lift table is an excellent choice.

At this stage, much of the innovation of the gaming table remains in the creation of atmosphere, such as more brilliant lights, colors and desktop board materials. How to adjust to match the most comfortable sitting position of the gaming players, what kind of desktop height can make the player's arm placement and finger operation more relaxed? Gaming chairs need to have an ergonomic intelligent lifting gaming table. Through the interactive adjustment of people, chairs and tables, people of different ages and heights can find a comfortable sitting position suitable for them, and will not be affected by the inappropriate height of the table to play the game.

We see, around the lifting table office furniture intelligent new business has become a forest. I believe that the electric intelligent lifting table will bring more surprises to the office furniture market.