Offside
Corporate

INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by Mark Farries at Gooch & Housego Ltd (G&H)

Limelight

José Iria (CPES), Miguel Matos (HASLab), Sérgio Tafula (C-BER), Rui Campos and Eduardo Marques (CTM)

Have your say

"...it seems particularly important to me that INESC TEC has a wide range of areas under the same roof and a significant number of people from different nationalities: even someone with a PhD in music feels right at home!", Rui Penha (CTM)

Free Nonsense

"In May 2014 I started working at INESC TEC and on 16 October around 3.47 pm, Adi Shamir gave me two cough drops.", André Pereira (CRACS)

Gallery of the Uncommon

“500€ and some smoked sausages, and that is the end of that.”

Where are you now?

Every month INESC TEC sends highly qualified individuals into the market...

Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls

In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.

Biptoon

More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

Subscribe BIP
 
 

INESC TEC helps Kyaia install prototype that manufactures shoes pair by pair

INESC TEC helps Kyaia install prototype that manufactures shoes pair by pair

Did you know that you can now order a customised pair of shoes online and have it on your doorstep in 24 hours? Thanks to a partnership between technology-based companies and R&D institutions, including INESC TEC, the technology makes it possible to produce footwear units, and is now installed at Kyaia, in Guimarães. The new solution to produce customised footwear in 24 hours was developed as part of the HighSpeedShoeFactory (Model to Produce Customised Footwear) project, and changes the way the footwear industry operates.

In an industry that is traditionally characterised by separate production units – cutting, seams, assembly and finishing –, with autonomous organisation and management processes, this organisational model will make it possible to manufacture the shoes pair by pair. As a result, the industry will have a single production flow, composed of integrated distribution systems with automated cutting and control (online) of the flow of products and processes.

With this new technology, the manufacturing systems will become more flexible and prepared to simultaneously produce small amounts and different models, as the unit is completely automated and interconnected by conveyors that assure the flow of raw materials and the product in its different stages. This new solution represents improvements in terms of efficiency, flexibility and layout, increasing productivity in the factory.

Supported by Compete, as part of the System of Incentives for Research and Technological Development, this is one of the projects developed within ShoeInov, the innovation network for the footwear industry. The HighSpeedShoeFactory was led by Kyaia, and developed by Flowmat - Sistemas Industriais; Silva e Ferreira; Creativesystems; CEI - Companhia de Equipamentos Industriais; Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and the Portuguese Footwear Centre. The INESC TEC team included Rui Rebelo, Pedro Ribeiro, Parisa Sadeghi, José Soeiro, Miguel Gomes and Américo Azevedo of the Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE).