MSID Highlights MSID Opportunities MSID Partners MSID Products MEL MSID Programs MSID Conferences MSID Search MSID Staff MSID Services MSID Standards MSID Publications NIST MSID MSID MSID
Publications

PLEASE NOTE: The Publications System provided by the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division (MSID) has moved to: http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/publications.html. The pages below are maintained for archival purposes only.

Publication summary

Author(s): Howard Moncarz

Publication date: October 1995

Citation: Howard Moncarz: "CALS Technologies Make Business Sense for the Customer, Therapeutic Footwear Industry," Proceedings of the CALS Expo International Conference, Long Beach, CA, October, 1995.

Key words: CALS, custom footwear, footwear, orthopedic insert, STEP therapeutic footwear, virtual enterprise

Availability:

  • A paper copy of this document is available by contacting Kristy Thompson [web,email]
Abstract:
The commercialization and integration of emerging technologies for custom, therapeutic footwear (CTF) manufacturing will provide economic and health-care benefits to the country and will improve responsiveness to consumer desires. CALS technologies, in particular the Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP), can greatly increase the benefits that are possible. Using STEP Application Protocols (APs), complex product information can be unambiguously transferred throughout the virtual and distributed, multi-enterprise marketplace that is anticipated for the future CTF industry. In that marketplace, information representing foot shapes, shoe lasts (forms for footwear manufacturing), orthopedic inserts, and the patterns that comprise the footwear pieces must be transferred among different organizations. Those organizations will be Demographically distributed, involved in different phases of the CTF manufacturing life cycle, and all connected through the virtual marketplace. This paper will describe that marketplace, the type of STEP APs required, and possible business scenarios expected.

Attention users of these documents: The information contained in these files should not be altered in any way. Attempts to change these files will adversely impact the integrity of the information and its usefulness. It is intended for use as is and will lose its usefulness if changed.

 

Send questions or comments to Webmaster.