The wedge-dowel components have the potential to trim back assembly time of Ikea furniture by up to eighty percent, and "will likely replace a lot of the fittings and tools you get with each piece of Ikea furniture," says the company in a video, explaining the innovation. Ann-Karin Sjorgen was product developer on a Lisabo table using it.

I’m in the middle of repairing an antique table. There’s nothing really broken, but most of the joints are loose. So I’m carefully prying apart the old doweled joints and removing the old glue, then reassembling the joint with Titebond wood glue.