Will LasryFounder, Glass Factory · 1.5M+ Online | Vogue 100 Innovators

Cutting Hundreds of Shoes Daily

17 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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The video showcases an automated leather-cutting machine used in shoe manufacturing. The system digitizes shoe upper patterns, projects them onto cowhide in real time, and adjusts each pattern to fit the hide, enabling the machine to cut approximately 300 shoe uppers per day—equivalent to the output of four manual workers. The speakers explain the workflow: selecting pattern pieces on a computer, projecting them onto the leather, and cutting the pieces, highlighting the efficiency and scalability of the technology.

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This is able to produce 300 uppers a day. 300 shoes cut by 4 people, but machine can cut numbers of 4 people. So how does this machine work? These are the little pieces that are digitalized and then cut on the leather. I can choose a part of the upper from the computer, and there is a projector. This is the last part of the upper.
So right now we're seeing in real time him projecting all of the pieces you see on the screen, which are the patterns of the shoe, so they have to basically adjust every single pattern in order to fit on a given cowhide. So that's what they do with every single piece of leather that's processed through this factory.