Today you will learn what:

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• Today you will learn what
• Henry Ford
• David Beckham
• Pimp my Ride
• Rapid Manufacturing
• Medical Surgery
• Have in common.

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Introduction to Manufacturing

• Custom-Fit is a relatively new approach to
  manufacturing, which breaks the trend with
  traditional manufacturing methods.
• Traditional methods of manufacturing focus on
  producing large numbers of the same product most
  products we buy are mass produced such in
  quantities of 100,000s to Millions as the Apple
  iPod.
• All the iPod's in a given range will be
  manufactured to be exactly the same, the consumer
  has options such as which colour or capacity the
  product is but otherwise products will be
  identical.
• This is the principle of Mass Production
  introduced by Henry Ford in 1913 and very little
  has changed since.

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Ford Model T
Available in BLACK !
Henry Ford famous said about the first mass
produced car you can have any colour as long as
it is black.
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Custom Products

• So thats mass produced products.
• Now however we expect to be able to chose the
  colour of our phones, iPods and shoes.
• But many people want to be more
• individualistic and demonstrate
• their own style though customising
• products. This is featured in
• programs such as Pimp my Ride.
• But there are other reasons for producing custom
  products such as fit.

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Why is Custom-Fit Needed?

• Many products are still made to a standard sizes
  which is mostly fine but can cause problems
  especially when we need to interact with the
  product a lot.
• However we are all individuals (picture)
• Custom-Fit focuses on producing products so that
  they are individual to the user.

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What is Custom-Fitting?

• Peoples feet arent the same and footballer
  players have different length of stride, which
  means they run and also kick differently.
• You an understand why it would be
• beneficial for top flight football players
• to have custom-fit boots made just
• for them.

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Why Custom-Fit

• Top footballer players have custom fitting boots
  for a variety of reasons
• comfort
• to guard against injury from ill fitting boots
• to improve their performance.
• However until recently personalised or bespoke
  products had to be made by hand at great expense.
• Typically the more of a product you make the
  cheaper it becomes, hence why Mass production is
  the norm.
• However new technology and developments have made
  custom-fit more affordable.

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Your Bit

• Log on to the student website and explore the
  process that is used to produce a custom-fit
  football boot
• The different sections on the page will be
  hyperlinked to the following areas
• Data Capture
• Modified Design
• CAD/CAM
• Rapid Manufactured product
• Complete the notes sheet accordingly.

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Follow the sequence round clicking on the topics
to display more information on each
Modification of Design
Data Capture
Completed Boot
Rapid Manufacture of Customised Design
CAD/CAM
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Welcome back

• Now suggest some other products that you think
  would benefit from a custom-fit approach?

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Medical applications

• However custom-fit is used in more life changing
  ways, helping to restore peoples bodies
  following
• a car accident,
• illness,
• or can repair deformities from birth.

Tibial component of complete knee replacement
Jaw Implant
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