CAF Certified Fittings

A big part of our Titus Advantage philosophy is the principle of developing products that reduce time and effort required in furniture assembly. Find out how they can help your business.

OptimizeFurniture Manufacture

  • Save on fittings and assembly tools

  • Save Time

  • Save on labour, packaging and transport

  • Reduce after-sales complaints

OptimizeHome Assembly

  • Shorter user manuals

  • Quicker, stress-free assembly

  • Less errors in assembly

  • Improved end products

In RTA furniture industry, consumer satisfaction begins with fittings, and can quickly end with them, too. Studying how our products serve their end consumers – furniture manufacturers and individuals or installers assembling RTA furniture at home – is at the core of our R&D. We have a deep understanding of what can go wrong, and more importantly: how to overcome it. We found a way to easily evaluate how a fitting optimises furniture assembly with the Consumer Assembly Friendliness (CAF) score. 

Titus CAF formula 2018

Simple Math

We came up with an easy way to calculate the Consumer Assembly Friendliness (CAF) score of any furniture fittings. Simply add the total quantity of parts required to assemble a cabinet and the number of actions it takes to assemble it, and multiply it with the number of types of parts. 

The lower the result, the friendlier the home assembly of a cabinet will be.

CAF in Action

Titus Quickloc is the most user friendly fitting on the market. As such, it is a great example of a fitting with an excellent CAF score. Watch the video to see the significant difference a consumer friendly fitting can make in furniture assembly.

Streamline the Assembly Process

 Fittings that have passed our CAF test optimize the home assembly process.

Assembly with standard fittings

  

Assembly with CAF certified fittings

Too many parts and fittings

   Fewer parts
Too many types of parts   Fewer types of parts

Many actions to assemble

   Fewer actions to assemble

Complicated assembly 

   Easy assembly instructions

 

 

Talk to our Experts

Watch Titus UK's Phil Beddoe explain key benefits of the CAF concept for furniture producers. Would you like to speak to someone on our team how our products could help improve your furniture? Fill in your contact information and our colleagues will be in touch with you shortly. Feel free also to request free samples of our products!

Our CAF Stars

Download CAF Leaflet

For examples, comparative CAF scores of our products and more please download our leaflet.

CAF leaflet pdf