prescription footwear challenges & opportunities

PRESCRIPTION FOOTWEAR

Klaveness Skofabrikk

Challenges and Opportunities - Doing a Great Job

Derek Jones

KLAVENESS SKOFABRIKK‣ Established in 1958 in Sandefjord Norway

‣ Exporting since 1968

‣ Manufacture in Portugal and Poland

‣ 220 Employees - turnover around 100m Euro

‣ Producing Prescription AND High St Fashion Shoes

TWO ASPECTSKlaveness Skofabrikk

Big Picture viewpoint - Fine Detail Viewpoint


Diabetes Expenditure

10% of the UK NHS Budget£9 Billion per Year£286 per Second

A drop in the ocean?

Diabetes Expenditure

10% of the UK NHS Budget£9 Billion per Year£286 per Second

MANUFACTURING GOES DIGITAL



FUTURE FACTORY?

‣ Past - Identical Items

‣ Present - Customisation

‣ Future - Mass Customisation

Can we HaveFlexibility and Efficiency ?

NISSAN CARS‣ Sunderland since 1986

‣ 1999 - Built 271,157 cars with 4,594 people

‣ 2011- Built 480,485 cars with 5,462 people


COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE


‣ Chain of Economic Activities that add value to a product

‣ The Product was the Star

‣ Service was at the End - Value Chain

COMMODITY TRAP


‣ Manufacturing and process knowledge are widely distributed

‣ Manufacturing moves to low cost economies

‣ Product lifetimes are short

BOOMERANG EFFECT


As Chinese Wages Rise...

The


MANUFACTUREPersonal computing Industry Centre

2010 - 16 Gigabyte iPad

$ 499 - Price$ 154 - Parts & Materials

$ 33 -Total World Wide Labour costs$ 8 - China’s Share of Labour Costs

WHY CHINA?Cluster Effect - Knowledge - Experience


KEEP CALM & CARRY ON?


TAKING SHAPEKlaveness Skofabrikk

Artisan skills

TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL MANUFACTURING


‣ Measurement and Design Specification

‣ Design Process

‣ Manufacture - Additive as well as Subtractive

PROCESS STEPS


Assess Patient

PrescriptionStrategy Based on IndividualRisk of

Ulceration

Rigorous Reliable

Measurement and

Specification

Preview -Design &

Manufacture

Verification of Design and

Fit

Clinician-Manufacturer Interface

Review


Complexity of Design & BuildLow High

Flexibility in Fashion/Style Choice LowHigh

Risk Stratification

HighModerateLow

CLEAR & CORRECT


BASIC FOUNDATIONSKlaveness Skofabrikk

NEW POSSIBILITIES


THE CHALLENGE


‣ Ignorance is not Bliss!

‣ Do Prescribers REALLY Know How to Order?

‣ Achieve Efficient Production with a Batch Size of One

‣ Achieve FUNCTION - FORM and FASHION

‣ Get it Right First Time - Every Time

‣ Make a Profit - Based on Adding Value through both Products and Services

A GREAT JOB?


‣ Not just a manufacturing challenge

‣ Not just the shoe makers problem

‣ All parts of the process must work

‣ Communication - Rather than Hallucination

prescription footwear challenges & opportunities

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