{"id":14905,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/standardizing-assembly-manuals-with-generative-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"standardizing-assembly-manuals-with-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/standardizing-assembly-manuals-with-generative-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardizing Assembly Manuals with Generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Wayfair<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science\/Mathematics, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Rohan Huang \u201924<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Zachary Dodds<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Grace Everts, Sangeon Park (TL-F), Aanya Pratapneni, Steven Tran (TL-S), Aaron Zhang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">Wayfair is an e-commerce company specializing in furniture and home goods. One of Wayfair\u2019s challenges is standardizing information across a vast catalog of furniture from thousands of suppliers. This is especially problematic for assembly manuals, as customers struggle to assemble furniture when faced with inconsistent and unclear instructions. The Wayfair Clinic team tackled this problem with an app that provides a standard interface for assembly manuals using state-of-the-art AI tools to enhance and simplify the assembly experience.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayfair Computer Science\/Mathematics, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Rohan Huang \u201924 Advisor(s): Zachary Dodds Students(s): Grace Everts, Sangeon Park (TL-F), Aanya Pratapneni, Steven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,185],"tags":[735],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-mathematics","tag-wayfair"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14948,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions\/14948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}