Built for the way your shoes are actually made

Cemented athletic uppers, vulcanised canvas, injected safety boots and hand-lasted leather share mechanics but not process windows. Footeon is configured per construction, per material and per role.

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Four footwear categories, four different pain profiles

The agents are the same; the constraints, tolerances and economics are not.

Athletic and performance

High-mix, fast-launch, cemented and direct-attach construction where delamination returns and changeover time dominate.

  • Bond-window control first
  • Twin-led changeovers
  • Per-pair traceability for brand QC

Casual and leather

Hide-driven economics where leather yield and hand-craft scarcity decide margin.

  • Defect-aware nesting first
  • Craft memory per cutter
  • Supplier scorecards on hides

Safety and work footwear

Certified constructions where dimensional accuracy, toe-cap placement and bond strength are compliance matters.

  • Full inspection coverage
  • Evidence retained for certification
  • Strict approval gates

Contract manufacturing

Multi-brand plants running other people’s specs, where proving conformance is the product.

  • Per-brand tenant isolation
  • Spec-cited decisions
  • Brand-ready audit exports

What each stakeholder gets

Three different buyers, three different proofs.

Plant manager

Owns throughput, cost and labour

Live yield, first-pass yield, changeover and energy per pair across every line, with the levers to move them.

Changeover −46%, energy per pair −18%

Quality director

Owns returns and brand agreements

Bond and fit evidence on every pair, approval control over validated parameters, and an export their brand auditor accepts.

Delamination returns −71%

IT and OT lead

Owns integration and risk

Edge-first deployment, tenant isolation, no telemetry egress option, and connectors that speak OPC UA and MQTT rather than screen-scraping.

On-prem deployment supported

The same loop, tuned per construction

Cemented, injected, vulcanised and direct-attach constructions differ mostly in the mould and bond nodes — the rest of the graph is stable.

RUN-4417 · Velo Trainer 2 · Line B · plant HCMC-03agent graph
Twin simulate — Yield-and-Energy — SUCCEEDED Twin simulate twin.simulate_run ✓ SUCCEEDED Cut and nest — Cut-and-Nest — SUCCEEDED Cut and nest cut.nest_optimize ✓ SUCCEEDED Stitch upper — Stitch-and-Upper — SUCCEEDED Stitch upper stitch.tension_control ✓ SUCCEEDED Mould sole — Mold-and-Sole — SUCCEEDED Mould sole mold.density_control ✓ SUCCEEDED Last upper — Last-and-Bond — SUCCEEDED Last upper last.fit_control ✓ SUCCEEDED Bond sole — Last-and-Bond — APPROVAL Bond sole bond.window_control ! APPROVAL Inspect pair — Quality-and-Fit — SUCCEEDED Inspect pair quality.inspect ✓ SUCCEEDED Finish and pack — Robot-and-Assembly — SUCCEEDED Finish and pack robot.finish_pack ✓ SUCCEEDED
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01 Twin simulate Yield-and-Energy — SUCCEEDED
02 Cut and nest Cut-and-Nest Twin simulate SUCCEEDED
03 Stitch upper Stitch-and-Upper Cut and nest SUCCEEDED
04 Mould sole Mold-and-Sole Stitch upper SUCCEEDED
05 Last upper Last-and-Bond Mould sole SUCCEEDED
06 Bond sole Last-and-Bond Last upper APPROVAL
07 Inspect pair Quality-and-Fit Bond sole SUCCEEDED
08 Finish and pack Robot-and-Assembly Inspect pair SUCCEEDED

Start from the symptom

Most plants arrive with one of these five sentences.

“Our leather scrap is above 20%.”

Defect-aware nesting on the actual hide batch, with yield reported per hide and a supplier scorecard behind it.

  • Cut & Nest on one leather line
  • Two-week baseline, then shadow mode
  • Typical payback inside two quarters

“Shoes are coming back delaminated.”

Bond-window control with humidity- and lot-aware activation, plus bond-line vision on every pair.

  • Last & Bond with approval gates
  • Adhesive lot correlation
  • Warranty-risk scoring per pair

“Changeovers are eating our capacity.”

Twin-simulated changeovers and GPU-solved sequencing across models, colourways and mould swaps.

  • Yield & Energy with the twin
  • Changeover order solved per shift
  • Line balancing against station health

“Our best cutters and lasters are retiring.”

Craft memory captures per-operator patterns and encodes them into agent behaviour before the knowledge walks out.

  • Craft memory per line
  • Training feedback for new operators
  • Consistency across shifts

What solutions are measured on

Every engagement is scoped against a baseline and reported against it.

  • +8.3 points of leather yield on defect-aware nesting
  • −71% delamination-driven returns after bond-window control
  • 98.2% first-pass yield across inspected pairs
  • −46% changeover time between models and colourways

How a rollout runs

Six to ten weeks from first sensor to graduated autonomy on the wedge workflow.

  1. Assess

    Two weeks of sensing and baseline capture on one line. No writes, no disruption.

    weeks 1–2

  2. Shadow

    Models tuned against your material lots and constructions while agents run in recommend mode.

    weeks 3–7

  3. Graduate

    Autonomy raised workflow by workflow, with approval gates on validated parameters.

    weeks 8–10

  4. Expand

    Second line, second workflow, then the full loop and the twin.

    quarter 2 onward

Design-partner outcomes

Illustrative scenarios drawn from pilot work and published footwear benchmarks.

“The nesting agent found yield our best pattern cutter could not — and then explained the layout hide by hide. We stopped arguing about scrap and started managing it.”
Head of Cutting Operations · Andean Footwear Co. [Illustrative]

Leather yield 79.1% → 87.4%

“Bonding is where our warranty costs live. Having an agent watch humidity, primer flash-off and press pressure on every pair — and stop for a human when it wants to move a validated parameter — is the first thing that has actually moved delamination.”
Quality Director · Verta Sportswear [Illustrative]

Delamination returns −71%

“We run 40 model changeovers a month. Simulating the nest, the mould recipe and the bond window in the twin before the line starts took hours out of every launch.”
Plant Manager · Đông Nam Footwear [Illustrative]

Changeover time −46%

Design-partner scenarios are illustrative and modelled on public footwear-manufacturing benchmarks — named references are [PLACEHOLDER] pending customer approval.

Works with the plant you have

Solutions are delivered on your existing machines and systems.

Cutting and nesting

  • Atom cutting tables
  • Comelz CZ series
  • Zünd G3
  • Lectra Versalis
  • Generic CNC / G-code

Stitching and lasting

  • Programmable stitchers
  • Lasting machine PLCs
  • Toe / side / heel lasters
  • Conveyor MES signals
  • Barcode and RFID pair tracking

Moulding and bonding

  • Compression press controllers
  • PU / EVA injection lines
  • Primer and cement stations
  • Activation ovens
  • Press pressure and cure sensors

Plant systems

  • SAP and Oracle ERP
  • PLM (Centric, PTC)
  • MES / MOM systems
  • OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP
  • Historian (PI, Ignition)

Connectors ship as versioned adapters. Anything not listed is reachable through OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP or the Footeon REST/gRPC API.

What we commit to in every engagement

Tenant isolation, approval gates and an auditable record from day one.

Certifications and posture

  • In progress SOC 2 Type II — audit window open [ASPIRATIONAL]
  • In progress ISO 27001 — controls implemented, certification pending [ASPIRATIONAL]
  • Supported GDPR — EU data residency and DPA available
  • Supported Per-tenant isolation for patterns, lasts and construction IP
  • Supported On-premises deployment with zero telemetry egress

Agent-specific assurances

  • Graduated autonomy: observe → recommend → act-with-approval → act, set per agent and per parameter
  • Human-in-the-loop approval gates on every validated bonding, lasting and moulding parameter
  • Immutable, quality-grade audit log of every agent action, approval and setpoint write
  • Guardrails and schema validation on tool calls; fail-closed to last known-good recipe
  • Sandboxed factory-edge runtime with signed model artefacts and version rollback
  • Scoped permissions per line, per station and per operator role

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Solution questions

  • Athletic and sports footwear, casual and leather footwear, and safety footwear, across both brand-owned plants and contract manufacturers. Cut, stitch, mould, last and bond are shared mechanics; the models are tuned per construction — cemented, injected, vulcanised or direct-attach.

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