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Author: Claudio Roberto Boër ,
Sergio Dulio
Publisher: Springer London Ltd
Imprint: Springer London Ltd
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781849966627
ISBN 10: 1849966621
Pages: 177
Publication Date: 13 October 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Professor Claudio Boer has 16 years experience in industry, mainly in the area of computer integrated design and manufacturing, and another 16 years experience as a researcher and professor of industrial technology and innovation. He also has experience as the leader of large research projects at national, European and international levels, particularly in the area of manufacturing innovation and management. He was Project Leader of the EUROShoE project managing 34 international partners. He is currently Director of the Institute for Computer Integrated Manufacturing for Sustainable Innovation (ICIMSI) in Lugano, Switzerland. Sergio Dulio has almost twenty years of experience in the footwear sector, including 10 years involvement in research projects. His main focus of research is mass customization and footwear. He graduated, magna cum laude, in aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1981 and went on to specialize in fluid dynamics attending a master course at an important NATO funded research institute in Belgium. In 2003 he was appointed by CNR -- ITIA to organize, install and activate a Design and Mass Customization Laboratory in Vigevano, Italy, where a pilot plant for the production of customized shoes was put into operation. The pilot plant was managed as a real shoe factory, using the technologies developed in the EUROShoE project and manufacturing a few hundreds pairs of personalized shoes. This task was completed at the end of 2004. He was also the Technical Project Manager of an even larger footwear research project funded by the EU (the CECmadeShoe project, involving 54 partners and a budget of 21 million Euros) aimed at the development of new materials, processes and product concepts for footwear in the new century. Sergio Dulio, works as a high-level technical consultant, both for ANCI (the Italian Association of Footwear Manufacturers) and ASSOMAC (the Italian Association of shoe machinery producers) with the task of supporting these two organizations in the formulation and activation of their strategic plans in the areas of technological research and innovation. He is also an independent consultant in the field of mass customization in footwear, supporting shoe manufacturers and retailers in their strategies for the introduction of MC in their business.
