Design Of customeR dRiven shOes and multi-siTe factorY

Objective

Shoe Manufacturing in Europe faces an intense and growing competitive pressure brought forth by low-wage countries.To maintain competitiveness DOROTHY promotes a response based on the transformation of shoe industry and related business model meant to strengthen Europe’s ability to compete in terms of high added value for the customer (as cost-based competition is not compatible with the goal of maintaining the Community’s social and sustainability standards). This transformation relies, on one hand, on the development of tools for the design of customer driven adding value shoes and, on the other hand, on the realization of tools for the design, configuration and reconfiguration of flexible multi-site multi-nation production plants, meant to manufacture those customer driven shoes. DOROTHY mission is to “design customer driven shoes everywhere, manufacture them intelligently anywhere” as a crucial challenge for shoe industry to gain competitiveness in the global markets, also through better cooperation (and not only to compete) with low-wage countries. In order to address this challenge and to support the proposed new paradigm, DOROTHY fosters three main scientific and technological objectives and their corresponding research clusters: 1- Design tools for the intelligent customer driven and customer fit shoe, as added-value product/service; 2- Tools for advanced industrial engineering design of multi-site and multi-nation production systems and factories, based on the customer driven shoe; 3- New business models associated with the above mentioned paradigm, meant to support it; Given the global challenge addresses, the proposal is coupled with an IMS initiative

Field of science

• /social sciences/economics and business/business and management/business model

Programme(s)

• FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

Topic(s)

• NMP-2007-3.3-1 - Innovative Customer-Driven Product-Service Design in a Global Environment

Call for proposal

FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1
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Funding Scheme

CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project

Coordinator

SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA

Address

Stabile Le Gerre
6928 Manno
Switzerland

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 493 786,99

Administrative Contact

Paolo Pedrazzoli (Dr.)

Participants (13)

HUGO BOSS TICINO SA

Switzerland

EU contribution

€ 178 324,20

Address

Via Sant Apollonia 32
6877 Coldrerio

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Kerstin Germann (Ms.)

ALPINA TOVARNA OBUTVE DD ZIRI

Slovenia

EU contribution

€ 192 917

Address

Strojarska Ulica 2
4226 Ziri

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Igor Zupan (Mr.)

TTS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS SRL

Italy

EU contribution

€ 419 454,09

Address

Largo Caleotto 1
23900 Lecco Lc

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Roberto Castellani (Mr.)

INSPIRE AG FUR MECHATRONISCHE PRODUKTIONSSYSTEME UND FERTIGUNGSTECHNIK

Switzerland

EU contribution

€ 333 152,70

Address

Technoparkstrasse 1
8005 Zurich

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Jens Bathelt (Dr.)

UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART

Germany

EU contribution

€ 304 207,11

Address

Keplerstrasse 7
70174 Stuttgart

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Carmen Constantinescu (Dr.)

PANEPISTIMIO PATRON

Greece

EU contribution

€ 284 918,62

Address

University Campus Rio Patras
265 04 Rio Patras

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Nikolaos Papakostas (Dr.)

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

Italy

EU contribution

€ 301 274,92

Address

Piazzale Aldo Moro 7
00185 Roma

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Marco Sacco (Dr.)

ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES

France

EU contribution

€ 296 810,74

Address

Rue De La Noe 1
44321 Nantes Cedex 3

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Jean-Jacques York (Mr.)

C.T.C. SRL

Italy

EU contribution

€ 54 295,11

Address

169 Via Delle Prata 169
53048 Sinalunga

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Giuseppe Lucisano (Dr.)

UCS, KUPCU PRILAGOJENI PROIZVOIDI DOO

Slovenia

EU contribution

€ 247 148,40

Address

Sinja Gorica 106B
1360 Vrhnika

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Martin Kopač (Mr.)

SYM VOULOI KAI PROIONTA LOGISMIKOU AE

Greece

EU contribution

€ 193 548,12

Address

Michalakopoulou Str 64
11528 Athens

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

George Papanikolopoulos (Mr.)

VIOMICHANIA YPODIMATON D.I. FEIDAS AE

Greece

EU contribution

€ 269 600

Address

Karamanli Avenue 150
13671 Acharnes - Athens

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Panagiotis Fidas - Ntais (Mr.)

DECATHLON SA

France

EU contribution

€ 100 275

Address

Boulevard De Mons 4
59650 Villeneuve D'ascq

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Wilfried Cornet (Mr.)