Dassault Systèmes, a French multinational software program company creating software program for 3D product design, simulation, and manufacturing, and ASICS, the Japanese sportswear label, have collectively opened a studio in Paris to check a brand new service offering on-demand sock liners customized for particular person foot shapes. The ASICS Personalization Studio is an ultra-compact manufacturing unit. The modular construction combines Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and digital twin expertise with ASICS’ proprietary expertise in sports activities to supply on-site, on-demand manufacturing of shoe elements to satisfy the precise specs of any person.
ASICS will leverage its proprietary know-how, supported by Dassault Systèmes’ modeling and simulation expertise, to design the form of sock liners based mostly on particular person foot form knowledge modeled and simulated on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Superior 3D printing expertise is then used to create the sock liner, a thick lattice construction made out of a extremely versatile materials layered to offer glorious breathability and softness. The precise degree of softness may be diverse for any a part of the foot, which aids bodily restoration by lowering pressure whereas additionally enhancing efficiency.
ASICS plans to hold out operational assessments and monitor person satisfaction as a part of a trial run for a wider industrial launch. In 2025, the ASICS Personalization Studio shall be transferred to Japan for additional testing and, sooner or later, the corporate will take into account making use of the expertise to different footwear merchandise along with sock liners.
“We’re delighted to collaborate with Dassault Systèmes on the ASICS Personalization Studio. Our partnership leverages the superior expertise and experience of two industry-leading firms to offer optimum worth to every buyer – serving to them dwell more healthy, happier lives with merchandise that reply to their particular person wants,” mentioned Mitsuyuki Tominaga, President and COO of Consultant Director of ASICS.
“We share ASICS’ dedication to improvements that enhance well being and well-being. Our partnership displays this by demonstrating a holistic strategy to manufacturing that prioritizes the patron expertise,” mentioned Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes. “It additionally exhibits how the digital world is catalyzing the Twenty first-century economic system. By way of their basis in science, our digital twins allow {industry} to not solely enhance the efficiency and the expertise of merchandise however to advance extra sustainable enterprise fashions.”
