development of a cost effective novel and ergonomic mass customisable children’s footwear (FIT-RITE)

开发具有成本效益的新颖且符合人体工程学的大规模可定制儿童鞋 (FIT-RITE)

• 批准号: 710457
• 金额: $ 10.66万
• 依托单位: START-RITE SHOES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Proof of Concept
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710457
• 关键词: development; cost; effective; novel; ergonomic

Shoes that restrict the natural motion of the foot also force the foot into specific motions thatcan be unhealthy. Children’s feet are particularly vulnerable as they are still growing and areat a higher risk of foot and lower limb problems if the natural motion is restricted. Whilst amore flexible shoe does not affect this motion to the same degree not all feet require the sameamount of flexibility and ideally the shoe design characteristics should match the individual’sfoot function.For a shoe company to offer a range of shoes that enable the matching of footwear designcharacteristics to individual foot function would require a large range of shoe types perdesign. Presently the capital investment for tooling associated with a large number of shoevariants would be cost probative. To compound this issue the large number of variants wouldrequire us and our retailers to carry large amounts of stock and reduce the amount of shoestyles as cash becomes tied up in shoe variations.The project will develop the knowhow to enable a shoe to be mass customised at point of saleto fit ergonomically to the individual foot characteristics based on two width fittings and up tosix structural types. This would have the benefit of reducing the manufacturing cost, a betteruse of stock space and increasing the number of styles stocked by retailers.The first aim will be to determine the common feet characteristics and use this information tocreate a design configuration on which areas of the shoe to customise for best fit. The secondaim will be to determine how to change the properties within the shoe to achieve the desiredfit. An experimental shoe will then be designed and a basic prototype manufactured. The shoewill then be tested to validate against the design configuration.

限制脚的自然运动的鞋子也会迫使脚进行特定的运动，这可能是不健康的。儿童的脚特别脆弱，因为他们仍在成长，如果自然运动受到限制，患足部和下肢问题的风险更高。虽然一个更灵活的鞋不会影响这种运动到相同的程度，但并不是所有的脚都需要相同的灵活性，理想情况下，鞋的设计特征应该与个人的脚功能相匹配。对于一个鞋公司来说，提供一系列的鞋，使鞋的设计特征与个人的脚功能相匹配，需要大量的鞋类型。目前，与大量鞋袜相关的工具的资本投资将是成本证明。为了解决这个问题，大量的变化将需要我们和我们的零售商进行大量的库存和减少鞋款的数量，因为现金变得束缚在鞋的变化。该项目将开发的专有技术，使鞋能够在销售点大规模定制，以符合人体工程学的个人脚的特点，基于两个宽度配件和多达六种结构类型。这将有利于降低制造成本，更好地利用库存空间，并增加零售商库存的款式数量。第一个目标是确定常见的脚的特征，并利用这些信息来创建一个设计配置，在鞋的哪些区域定制最适合。第二个目标将是确定如何改变鞋内的属性，以实现所需的适合。然后将设计实验鞋并制造基本原型。然后将对鞋进行测试，以验证设计配置。