Establishing the design guideline of customized insole via pressure distribution foot planar equipment

Lasa, Norhazirah (2017) Establishing the design guideline of customized insole via pressure distribution foot planar equipment. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The shoe insole is one of the element in the shoe to protect foot and avoid from any injuries. Reported from the previous literatures review they claimed that the industrial workers suffer from lumbar muscle fatigue issues that lead to back pain symptom while performing their job. In order to overcome these issue, literatures suggest that shoe insoles will be able to reduce the health risks. The solution to solve the issue is to improve the structure of insole in the shoe. However, based on the previous work, stated that there are no specific guideline to produce the insole for safety shoes focusing on customized insole. According to the issue, this project which is design guideline of customized insole via foot planar equipment (F-scan) will construct the guideline to ease the process of customized insole. Pressure distribution foot planar equipment have been chosen as the main measurement to this project. The function is to measure the critical surface interface pressure with minimal interferences. The physical structure of sensor which is have thin and flexible sensor can provide highly accurate of pressure reading. There are 45 of respondents involved to the collection of questionnaires and 23 of respondents contributed to the experiment. The respondents are coming from XYZ Company Sdn Bhd of department layup. The number of respondents for experiment is smaller than collection of questionnaires because of the limitation of equipment and time. The questionnaires is developed to get the background of the respondents and some of information that used to developed the design guideline of customized insole. Besides that, the anthropometry of the feet is used in order to determine the adequate dimension for the shoe insole. Moreover, the selection of material to produce the customized insole is used CES Edu Pack software to ensure right selection of material. After, constructing the design guideline, the validation of design guideline have been made by comparing the peak pressure distribution of foot when wearing the existing insole and customized insole. The peak pressure after using the customized insole is lower than using existing insole.

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