Adidas: 5 Steps to Connected Manufacturing

Posted on 9 Feb 2017 by The Manufacturer, The Manufacturer

Robotic factories and digitally-enabled manufacturing techniques enable the global sportswear manufacturer to deliver mass customisation.

How can you drive down production costs, while offering customers ever greater product choice? Adidas has squared the circle by transforming itself into a ‘connected manufacturer’, just as it has announced the opening of a new robotic shoe manufacturing plant in Germany. The company has developed plans to introduce more robotic ‘Speed Factories’, providing automated…

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