Indo Maxima was nominated in the Silmo d'Or "Vision" Category

Indo's MAXIMA line of personalized geometry progressive lenses aimed at users with combined visual disabilities (near vision/far vision /astigmatism) was proposed for the Silmo d'Or Prize in the category "Vision". It has been eventually nominated among a total of five nominations in this category. 

MAXIMA is the result of research that was performed in the last three years to extend the Indo line of personalized progressive lens products (aka Eyemade), whose geometry is created based on analysis of a user's visual strategy (the way a user looks at things around him/her), and cut/polished using freeform technologies. The research was performed within the scope of Indo's Work Package in the project Made4U (FP7 Proj 212002). With MAXIMA lenses vision was further improved in terms of clarity, but also in terms of lens thickness and weight. The new lenses are specifically designed based on the frames in which they are to be mounted, and in so doing they have become much thinner and consequently a lot lighter. 

Since the recent launch of the MAXIMA line of products mainly in Iberia, Indo has sold tens of thousands of such lenses. MAXIMA lenses are distinguished with a discrete watermark that is engraved on each individual lens.

This is the first major public recognition of one of the technology innovations achieved within the objectives of Made4U. Our warmest congratulations for this achievement to Indo, its researchers and its research managers.

Project QA meeting at EOS, in Krailling, Bavaria.

A two day meeting was held at the EOS premises in Krailling, Bavaria. The project approaches a critical phase where the final steps are taken to deploy equipment and finalize the prototype demonstrator system that will be installed at opticians in Setùbal, Portugal (Optica Pita), and in Annecy, France (Tipheret). The demonstrator phase will last for 5 months, from January 2012 to end of May 2012. IBV demoed an impressive front end system to be used in the sales process of Made4U personalized spectacles. A impactful feature of this system is the simulated (virtual) wear and trial of various models of frames and glasses set on a user's avatar, which was captured via the system's scanner, and 3D rendered with texture maps based upon a user's scanner produced portrait photograph.

WEAR Conference

The MADE4U project was selected to be presented in the Group WEAR Annual Conference (World Engineering Anthropometry Resource) dedicated to Anthropometry applied to innovation. The conference was held the 22-23 September 2010 in Valencia, Spain.

The goal of this conference that was aimed at the manufacturing industries, was to show availability of anthropometric data worldwide and potential uses of such data in designing innovative products and services.

Over 20 well known worldwide experts in the application of anthropometrics and ergonomics in the development of new innovative products such as cars, chairs, helmets, clothing and footwear for different population groups were present in the Conference with an audience of 85 participants from different manufacturing companies.

MADE4U project findings were presented by Begoña Mateo, researcher in the Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia and MADE4U. Miss Mateo is WP2 leader and presented her project findings in anthropometrics and ergonomics applied in the manufacturing of personalized spectacles.

Adaptation of products and services to the dimensions and human forms is becoming a major trend in the purchasing decisions of end users. As Director of the Clothing field at IBV, Juan Carlos González, pointed out "ergonomics and comfort are the most requested features by customers. Nowadays, the global markets require knowledge of the diversity and availability of anthropometric resources, not only in our environment but also around the world." Adapted products based on anthropometric data increase end-user comfort and satisfaction and reduce the number of returns substantially. Therefore, application of anthropometry, data obtained and resulting technologies are great tools for future innovation. In addition, Gonzalez noted, "this discipline creates opportunities for new business models, such as 'customized' and 'best fit', based on anthropometric data."

Connect-EU conference, Barcelona - Spain, September 2010

This is a Powerpoint presentation that was presented by the WP6/WP7 workpackage leader and QA Manager of the Made4U project, Joan Guasch, Manager of Ascamm, during Connect-EU 2010. The event took place in Barcelona, Spain, and was organized by the Catalan Government. The conference's objective is to disseminate to the broad public great experiences in FP7 projects, and generate genuine interest among local companies in the opportunities offered by the FP7 Research funding programme of the Commission.

A successful Industrial Technologies Conference 2010

Our Booth at the Industrial Technologies 2010 The Official site of the Industrial Technologies Conference recently published various media files (photographs and videoclips) that were shot during the intense and very successful three days of the Conference, from Sep 7 to 9, 2010. One of those gallery photographs, displayed here, shows our booth with our responsible manager and WP8 leader, Prof.Dr.Ir.V.Kritis, of the University of Antwerp.

This was an exceptionally quite moment during regular ex-cathedra sessions, when only a handful of visitors attended to the booths.

On the contrary, the YouTube slideshow in our subsequent news posting hereunder shows some of the busy moments at our booth, with numerous genuinely interested visitors, some of them undergoing the Visual Map developer check-ups as well.

Dr. Kritis takes advantage of the crowd-less stand to check his email, unaware of the paparazzo who shot his picture at his moment of privacy. Paparazzi always do that...