Case Study: Impact Footwear achieves rapid mass customization — bringing customizable flip-flops to market in under 12 months with nTopology

Impact Footwear Brings to Market Customizable Flip Flops in Under 12 Months

Impact Footwear is a startup that set out to launch the world’s first customizable flip flop—three independently tuned pressure zones and 30 design variables—manufactured on-demand with EOS SLS. Their challenge was to make mass customization economically viable with minimal human intervention and no in-house CAD expertise, so they partnered with nTopology to leverage its design automation tools (nTop Platform and nTopCL).

nTopology delivered automated, cloud-based geometry generation and advanced latticing so Impact Footwear could create foam-like midsoles and a hands-free order-to-manufacture pipeline. The nTopology solution produced production-ready STL files in under 10 minutes (9× faster than competing software), enabled development and go-to-market in less than 12 months, and unlocked scalable, lower-cost mass customization with on-demand SLS production.

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