John Smith. Personalized and posture care chair, on demand

Abstract

Today the technological development or the continuous acceleration of inventions and innovations has established the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This has given rise to an “in- telligent” factory, which produces objects that are not necessarily serialized but personalized to satisfy individual needs at low costs. From here arises the idea of configuring a customized chair, printed in 3D, medical (postural) and truly within the reach of all. The achievement of this objective involves the orchestration of a series of activities: a product configurator, a sof- tware for the management of physical parameters, thanks to the collaboration of osteopathics physiotherapists; an e-commerce site, for the transition from virtual to real; a 3D printing service network in the area where the work is supposed to be done, with its transport system (km 0); a monitoring of all the printed chairs, which allows their recovery, once their function of use has been exhausted, to recycle them within an eco-sustainable (re)productive system (cradle to cradle).