EURO-ShoE: Development of the processes and implementation of management tools for the Extented User Oriented Shoe Enterprise

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0416-2

Key words (English)

Economic Aspects; Environmental Protection; Industrial Manufacture; Innovation; Technology Transfer; Safety

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G1RD-2000-00343

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.1 Innovative products, processes and organization

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

EURO Shoe is a combined research and demonstration project aimed at a dramatic renovation of the concept of the shoe and of its production, based on the transformation of the first from a mass produced product to a mass customised one; this product evolution goes in parallel with a transformation of the footwear company into an extended and agile enterprise capable of handling the complexity that such a change in the nature of the product implies and of mastering the new challenges deriving from a direct involvement of the consumer in the design and manufacturing process of the shoe he is going to buy. Such a radical change in the product nature forces a complete revision of the processes that support the various phases of the product life cycle in a systemic view that is developed within the EURO Shoe project according to the model of the product - processes matrix leading to a research effort that touches all phases and their technologies.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
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Swiss Project-Number: 00.0416-2