Alpina’s New Footwear Development through Optical Foot Measurements
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In the paper, we first present some basic foot measurement procedures. We then highlight some advantages and disadvantages of optical foot measuring instruments. We then present results of foot measurements that were carried out on Slovenian footwear customers by the Slovenian footwear manufacturer Alpina. Thereupon, we present Alpina’s development of the first generation of new customer adjusted footwear (from the process of collecting information to the process of footwear production).
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تاریخ انتشار 2010