BBC Interview with Professor Sienz – bringing bespoke PPE mask to market using digital marketplace

December 18, 2020 Professor Johann Sienz

The BBC recently interviewed IMPACT Director, Professor Sienz, about a new research project that will enable new companies, like MyMaskFit, to source the many products and services needed through a new digital marketplace.  The IMPACT research team are currently helping with the manufacturing and testing process with the aim to begin supplying frontline healthcare workers with bespoke PPE masks in early 2021.

The team are developing a pilot online marketplace designed to optimise manufacturing supply chain networks and create a new industry-wide business model.

This new platform will seek to better connect manufacturers and suppliers, enabling a streamlined product/process sourcing and selection service tailored to industry needs.

The project will initially focus on supporting Welsh manufacturing companies with the aim to create an innovative digital supply chain marketplace (DSCM) template that can be replicated nationally and globally.  One of the first companies to trial the new platform will be Swansea-based company MyMaskFit.  Their aim is to produce custom fit reusable PPE masks for use during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.  Customers will send a scanned image of their face to the company via an app designed to record the dimensions needed to create the bespoke product.

BBC Interview with Professor Sienz:

A challenge for many companies, like MyMaskFit, is often creating a new supply chain and sourcing the many products and services required to bring regulated products to market.

Unifying shared expertise with industry experts and researchers from WMG, University of Warwick and the Manufacturing Technology Centre, this new partnership will offer companies, like MyMaskFit, access to a more open and dynamic market, with increased opportunity for UK SMEs, and by making markets more efficient and flexible, should raise productivity and open new value chains through wider reach.

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