21st Century Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities for
Executives
Through this week’s articles, I realized that a distributed
and easy manufacturing and shipping model have encouraged a host of entrepreneurs.
It has improved collaboration and collective effort. In some cases it could
prove to be disruptive. I am going to discuss opportunities which the new age
supply chain and manufacturing model have created in the eyewear industry.
Traditionally, eyewear- either fashionable or prescription
based -had a long supply chain. The glasses came from glass manufactures, the opticians
took orders for prescription based eyewear, displayed models which were
manufactured already. There was limited customization and long wait times.
Now, with the advent of 3-d printing, some entrepreneurs have
explored eyewear and possibly resolved the problem of customization. PROTOS is an eyewear manufacturing company
which uses 3D printing. They pride themselves on selling customized eye frames.
They ask users to take snapshots and design frames according to the facial
size. They also give you the option to upload a design of the specs you want. Once
they have your prescription they ask their in house optician to set the glasses
into the frame and ship it over.
PROTOS is not the only company in custom eyewear
manufacturing using 3D printing. There is also MYKITA a Berlin based company. They have expanded to using a patented
technology to use 3D printing to manufacture sturdy frames.
3D printing and shortening supply chain gaps have given rise
to new industries. Eyewear is one of them and could disrupt the traditional brick
and mortar stores since customization which was the problem earlier has been eliminated.
Do you think that custom eyewear using 3D printing could disrupt
the traditional eyewear industry?
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