footwear

Improving Sustainability of Footwear Production through 3D Printing of Shoes

Improving Sustainability of Footwear Production through 3D Printing of Shoes
The production of apparel and footwear has a significant impact on the environment. In 2016, these two product categories accounted for about 8 % of global climate emissions. To reach global emission goals, different production strategies are required. As an additive manufacturing process, 3D printing offers the possibility of mass customisation by combining the cost advantages of mass production and the individualisation of custom-made products. We present an approach to using FFF 3D printers to produce complete shoes, eliminating the need for auxiliary materials and many manufacturing steps. Here, mass customisation is done by adapting digital shoe models to customers' foot scans, creating individualised one-off pieces. Considering only the production process, emissions from a pair of 3D printed shoes are slightly higher than conventionally manufactured shoes. Beyond the environmental aspects, 3D printed shoes have advantages in the aspects of social and economic sustainability. The ...
Industry 4.0 Science | 2022 | | DOI 10.30844/WGAB_2022_1
Custom-Fit Shoes Using 3D Printing

Custom-Fit Shoes Using 3D Printing

Deep Learning Supports Defect Detection in Mass Customization
Markus Trapp, Markus Kreutz, Alexander Böttjer, Michael Lütjen ORCID Icon, Michael Freitag ORCID Icon
3D printing has established itself as a production process and has also found its way into the fashion industry. Individualised shoes can be 3D printed, but this poses significant challenges for automated quality control, as defects are rare. Autoencoders enable to train a system with defect-free data so that detected deviations from this state can be evaluated as defects. Our research shows a ROC AUC score of 0.87, proving that this method is suitable for anomaly detection in 3D-printed shoes.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 4 | Pages 15-18