Inconsistent skiving – Case #399

November 6, 2015

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“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Practical solutions to problems encountered in the manufacturing process that demonstrate how we assist our customers’ factories to produce Right from the Start TM.

Problem: the skiving of the counter box edge was inconsistent. It was causing an impression (x-ray) on the uppers and could even hurt the consumer’s foot while wearing.

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Impactiva solution: we got the factory to do a uniform width skive, keeping the edges zero taper all around.

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