Sense

Sense is a unique system of office workstations and accessories from Herman Miller. At its heart is a groundbreaking design that requires absolutely no tools for assembly or dismantling. Components simply lock, click, or snap into place, so it’s quick to order, quick to build and easy to reconfigure. There’s a wide range of table shapes and sizes – rectangular, wave and 120 degree. These can be used alone, or be extended to create larger configurations featuring extensions, returns, satellites and meeting ends. There’s also a full range of support products, including screens, tool bars, CPU holders, shelves, cable management products and paper-handling accessories.

Key messages

Sense – intelligent design made simple
Sense is a unique office furniture system. It provides a simple solution for today’s complex office environments. Highly intelligent components make the design easy to understand and easy to use. It is ideal for companies requiring a single product range that offers predefined configurations but with a fresh aesthetic. Sense is a modern, fun range that is enjoyable to use.

Design to connect
• The power of the idea. All good design starts with an idea. Sense harnesses the power of the idea to bring a new and unique concept to the industry.
• All in the detail. Great design is all in the detail. An intelligent mono-beam and simple components connect, making it easy to configure different layouts.
• Sense makes things simple. Create a solution that fits with a preferred working style.

Design to build
• No tools. It has never been easier to put a table together. With no tools, the unique plug+play system means sense can be built in seconds.
• Simplicity. With plug+play, it’s quick and easy to build. All components simply lock, click or snap into place. Sense reduces downtime and increases productivity.
• Inspire. Simple design means your workspace reflects your business values and adapts with you. Build an environment that inspires. Use Sense to create a modern, fresh landscape where people feel good.

Design to play
• Play. Dress the workspace to reflect identity. Personalise and change – it’s designed to be easy to play with Sense.
• Create a look. Vibrant colours and cool finishes help create a modern aesthetic. Bring individuality to team environments. Make it as simple or as detailed as required.
• Change is easy. Choose the look you want for a modern, relaxed workplace. Motivate people.

Design to grow
• For different applications. Start with a single table and work up. Sense is designed for different applications. Update and adapt as the business changes.
• Considered range. Sense is designed for the long term. Add new tables, change layouts, take down and rebuild. Intelligent design is built to last.
• Create great places to work. Sense is built for today and can be changed for tomorrow. Herman Miller’s heritage and sustainable design principles add up to a product that’s built for the future.

Vocabulary
• Wide range of work surface shapes and sizes - rectangular, wave, 120°
• Extensions, returns, satellites, meeting ends
• Legs are straight or angled, fixed height or height-adjustable
• Privacy screens and toolbars
• Cable management products
• Accessories: paper trays, CPU holder, monitor arm, pinboards, and shelves

Application

Single table
Sense can be used as a single table for individual working requirements. Power, wire management and privacy panels/screens provide a complete, independent office solution.

Back-to-back
Frames use a shared-beam concept, minimising the number of legs required. Height-adjustable legs and options for a toolbar with and without privacy panels ensure that whatever the communication requirement, collaboration activities can be managed

Clusters
Linear configurations are made easy with Sense. Standard length frames connect using patented connection devices to form the structure you require. Add to this returns or satellite tables to provide for further workspace, meeting or breakout options.

120 degree
Customer service, call centre or other team-based environments will benefit from the collaborative space that can be achieved using Sense in a 120-degree formation. Create small, working clusters or larger, group environments to offer the right collaboration requirements.

Meeting
An extended vocabulary means Sense can be applied to all areas of the office, including meeting and breakout areas. The fun, modern finishes and simple frame structure of Sense allows facility-wide application and offers a perfect solution for community spaces.

Home office
The simplicity of design and simplicity of build means that Sense is a perfect option for the office worker’s home office requirements. The wide choice of finishes and colours mean that your office will be exactly as you want it to be – and if you fancy a change, just do it. It’s designed to be easy.

Screens
Screening for sense is unique. Utilising an exclusive fabric for Herman Miller called Unity, screens come in a variety of colours to suit individual tastes.
All screening is designed to accept pinable accessories. Screens with toolbars can accept reversible tablets (pinable or whiteboard), power and paper management accessories. Screens without toolbars are designed for privacy only but allow the attachment of mini pinboards for tacking requirements. Sense can also be specified with just a toolbar, maximising collaboration between paired desks and allowing zoned privacy through use of tablet materials

Power, data and cable management
Sense provides a range of cable management products. There are cable support clips, a single cable basket, a double cable basket and an umbilical riser.
Cable support clips, small or large, can be mounted directly onto the frame to support and route cables. The small clip can also be added to cable baskets to separate power and data cables.
The single basket is used to manage a higher volume of cables. It attaches to the beam with two large cable clips that are supplied with it.
The double basket is suspended between two beams, using the small cable clips. This is used in a back-to-back configuration.
Sense has a high-capacity umbilical riser which attaches to the frame.
To illuminate the work area, a task light can be clamped onto the tool bar.
Power and data blocks are available in various options and are delivered pre-assembled. Depending on the application, these can be fitted onto a tool bar, frame or wire management basket. Configured with four access ports, the module can be specified as four power, two data/two power or four data, or a combination of the two. The result is a flexible solution to hard-wire requirements that means you only pay for what you need.

Colours and finishes
The colour palette uses a standard, high-demand palette as well as more modern, contemporary colours to suit a broad range of tastes and to allow broad applications. the screen fabric is unique to Herman Miller and provides a cool, modern aesthetic with tactile and acoustic benefits.

Technical information

Worksurfaces
Worksurfaces are 25mm MFC (Melamine faced chipboard) with melamine production-fused to both sides of the core. A 2mm ABS edgeband is applied all round using hot melt adhesive, and then machined all round to a EN527 approved radius. Or Worksurfaces are a 0.6mm veneer lay-on and paper backer, applied with water-based PVA adhesive and 3mm veneer-faced re-cut wood edgeband, finished with a tint and lacquer, and then machined all round to a EN5237 approved radius.

Frames
Worksurfaces are supported by Sense’s mono-beam structure. The monobeam is pre-defined in size, with resulting leg plugs fixed, ready for accepting worksurfaces at installation. The mono-beam is re-used across the toolbar, increasing economies of scale. Screens are in turn supported by the beam.
The beams are 2.0mm roll formed steel, which are laser welded to form the frame which can be painted metallic silver, chalk white or thorium grey.

Legs
The legs can be specified as either fixed height or height adjustable and can also be specified with either a straight or angled leg at the user side of the table.
The legs are a composition of aluminium castings, steel and plastic components.
The legs can be specified in a choice of four finishes.

Height adjustability
Sense tables may be specified with height adjustable legs that afford an adjustment range from 620 – 800mm.

Warranty
Herman Miller warrants Sense to be free of defects in material and workmanship for 12 years - regardless of the number of shifts during which the products are used.