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Flexible and on-demand manufacturing of customised spectacles by close-to-optician production clusters

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Summary
Optician2020 has developed distributed manufacturing assets in mini-factories clustered in urban areas combining short series manufacturing technologies and ICT tools for design, process automation and on-line real time delivery management of personalised spectacles, a fashionable product combining health prescription, functional performance and aesthetical requirements. The key enabling technologies deployed are: - additive manufacturing, for polymeric and metallic frames - advanced coating technologies, for short series lens coating - automated procedures, for personalisable frames catalogue design - scanning devices, for end-user anthropometric data capture ICT tools are used to improve the efficiency, adaptability and sustainability of the production systems and their integration within the proximity mini-factory business model. It requires continuous change of processes related to the management of distributed manufacturing assets and to the personalised manufacturing of spectacles in which the consumer can select frame materials and also finishings both in frame and lenses. Optician2020 has demonstrated the feasibility of this business model based on close-to-optician mini-factories by showing: - The spectacles personalisation flexibility, developing a catalogue of at least 12 models in spectacles for 450 users. - The mini-factories flexibility and re-configurability with an agile procedure for adding new local manufacturing facilities to the open virtual network. - The time-to-market reduction up to 65% and production cost reduction of 40% with respect to conventional methods. The exploitation will start one year after the completion of Optician2020. A maximum initial impact of 25.000 spectacles can be obtained with two initial clusters of networked minifactories working efficiently for a group of 12 opticians in each cluster. It is expected to expanding the number of mini-factories with 10 more EU-based clusters.
More information
Website: http://optician2020.eu/
Duration: 36 months
Start date: 01-10-2013
End date: 30-09-2016
Number of participants: 10
Total budget - EC contribution: 5770513 Euro - 3614999 Euro
Call topic: Mini-factories for customised products using local flexible production (FoF.NMP.2013-6)
Instrument: Collaborative project (generic)
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Use Case Requirements and Lessons Learned - (No information available)  

Challenges - (11)  

  1. Challenges
    1. Manufacturing the products of the future
      1. Customised products
      2. Resource efficient, sustainable products
    2. Economic sustainability
      1. Addressing economic performance across the supply chain
      2. Realising reconfigurable, adaptive and evolving factories capable of small scale production
      3. High performance production, combining flexibility, productivity, precision and zero-defect while remaining energy-efficient
    3. Environmental sustainability
      1. Reducing the consumption of water and other process resources.
      2. Optimising the exploitation of materials in manufacturing processes

Technologies and enablers - (8)  

  1. Technologies and enablers
    1. Advanced manufacturing processes
      1. Additive manufacturing
    2. Information and communication technologies
      1. ICT solutions for modelling and simulation tools
        1. Integrated knowledge based systems
      2. Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
    3. Modelling, simulation and forecasting

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Research priorities - (7)  

  1. Research priorities
    1. Domain 1: Advanced manufacturing processes
      1. Sub-Domain 1.1 Processing novel materials and structures (into products)
        1. RP 1.1 Manufacturing for custom made parts
    2. Domain 6: Customer-focused manufacturing
      1. RP 6.6 Costing and manufacturability assessment
      2. RP 6.9 On-demand manufacturing of customer-centric products

Diverse - (No information available)  

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Joan Guasch

Joan Guasch
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