Objective
Footwear manufacture in the EU faces severe competition from imported products from third world countries and it is thus essential that production efficiency is maximised while production costs are minimised. Shoe manufacture using sophisticated process machinery and small numbers of operatives can be done in a number of ways, but the most technically advanced of these involves moulding the sole directly onto the bottom of the lasted upper in a direct injection process. This requires several open loop processes, which are not sufficiently accurate to meet the dimensional requirements of the moulding process. This results in relatively high levels of finished shoes requiring re-work, scrap or customer-replacement, representing a major manufacturing cost penalty. This project seeks to overcome these manufacturing defects and hence the associated costs, by exploiting recent advances in non-contact sensing and measurement technologies, to incorporate real-time, closed loop process control.
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WN8 8AX DALTON
United Kingdom