BIRMINGHAM, UK, Apr 24, 2015 – Delcam CRISPIN has announced three more speakers for the Footwear Technology Forum at the Pensole Footwear Design Academy in Portland, Oregon, on May 20 and 21.
The latest developments in footwear design and manufacture will be discussed at the Footwear Technology Forum
These presentations will give delegates the opportunity to hear from leading industry experts from GoEngineer, Lectra and Wolfvision about the latest technological changes and updates that affect their businesses.
Tyler Reid, application engineer at GoEngineer, in her session titled Digital Manufacturing – 3D Printing Today & Tomorrow, will discuss the driving force behind the rapid rise of 3D printing in the commercial world, exploring what the technology is, how it works and asking if there are any limitations to it.
Lectra return to the Footwear Technology Forum to deliver a presentation titled The Future of Leather Cutting. Philippe Ribera, marketing director for software at Lectra, will address delegates on how changes in fashion trends affect the need for innovation within their manufacturing processes.
Following the recent integration of the Wolfvision scanner with Delcam CRISPIN’s Shoemaker design software, Andrea Mayer, sales manager at Wolfvision will deliver a presentation that focuses on the opportunities a Wolfvision Visualizer can provide to a footwear business, in her session titled Real Time Visualization – Share Any Material, Any Image, Any Time.
Delcam CRISPIN is also welcoming back Luigi Ferracuti to this year’s Forum. Luigi is global 3D development and tooling director at CrocsInc and will share a 3D printing case study with delegates. In addition, D’Wayne Edwards, founder of Pensole Footwear Design Academy, is opening the event with Pensole’s vision of the future of footwear.
The Portland Forum builds on the success of Delcam CRISPIN’s first Footwear Technology Forum that was held in Milan last October. Paul Robinson, head of product creation technologies at Reebok, USA, attended the Milan event and said: “I was intrigued by the forum as it was the first time I’d ever seen anything like this. I would recommend it to my colleagues and anybody else I know in the industry.”
For further details and to book a place at the Footwear Technology Forum, please visit www.ft-forum.com or contact Simon Hamilton at Delcam CRISPIN on sah@delcam.com.
About Delcam
Delcam is one of the world’s leading suppliers of CAM software and associated services, and also supplies systems for product design, tooling design, reverse engineering and inspection. The company has grown steadily since being founded formally in 1977, after initial development work at Cambridge University led by the late Donald Welbourn. It is now among the largest developers of product design and manufacturing software in the UK, with subsidiaries in America, Europe and Asia. Over 330 people are employed at Delcam’s Birmingham headquarters, with almost 400 staff working in the company’s overseas subsidiaries and around 200 more in its international joint ventures.
Delcam’s software and services help manufacturing companies to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce lead times. The company’s software is used in over 90 countries by more than 45,000 organizations. These customers range from multi-national corporations to independent designers, toolmakers and sub-contractors, and come from a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, electrical appliances, footwear, healthcare, motor sport, packaging, toys, sports equipment, jewelery and signmaking. On February 6, 2014, Delcam was acquired by Autodesk and now operates as a wholly-owned, independently-operated subsidiary.
For further information, please visit www.delcam.com.
