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OPTICIAN2020

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

Field
European
Date
01/10/2013 - 30/06/2016
Industry
  • Manufactura
Budget
5770512,8
Funded by

European Commission-FP7

Website
Video

PROJECT INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

Optician2020 will develop 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 aesthetic requirements.

Optician2020 will develop 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 aesthetic requirements.

Impact

Business model based on close-to-optician mini-factories showing:
- The spectacles personalisation flexibility.
- 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.

Entities

http://www.optician2020.eu/partners/

Contact information

Marta Valero
Researcher

IBV

Technological capabilities

IA
Digital Twins