Cadscan Limited

In 2019 218m items of footwear were sold in the UK generating sales of £10.5b, and 100,000 people are employed in retail and wholesale. The impact of Covid-19 has been severe causing a 30% sales drop because of reduced demand. Excess stock, numerous store closures and redundancies are likely to make recovery slow. Online sales accounted for 27% of footwea...

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We aim to establish the feasibility of a disruptive, novel, low-cost, fully automated and compact 3D imaging and printer kiosk. It will be available in high-street retailers (e.g. pharmacists) to scan customer's feet, automatically design and then print custom orthotic insoles on demand, within 1-2 hours. No current solution manufactures custom orthoses o...

"The successful completion of this feasibility project will generate a novel measurement system for assessing the loading that is applied on the foot-at-risk of developing a foot ulcer during activities of daily living. It therefore would have significant potential for disease prevention and proactive management of health and chronic conditions. This nove...

Globally, there are 15m strokes annually. Most people survive a first stroke but often have significant morbidity. In addition to motor disability a third have a significant cognitive impairment affecting their functional ability and require substantial socio-economic and financial support, sometimes for the rest of their lives. Strokes cost the UK £9 bil...

"3.7m people in the UK and 422m worldwide have diabetes. Diabetic Foot Ulceration (DFU) is the most common complication, with over 60,000 people having an ulcer at any time, costing the NHS £650m annually. 40% of patients reulcerate within 1 year and 60% within 3 years. In the UK this results in 7,300 amputations per year, 20 every day. Patients who have ...

Improved life expectancy is set to become one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. There are more than 1.5m over 85s currently in the UK, 66% of whom have a disability or longstanding illness. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22%. 80% of seniors would prefer to “age in ...

The transition from manufacturing prototype plastoc parts to production parts involves significant investment, particularly with injection moulding where high tooling and design costs require high-volume production to be economically viable. While additive manufacturing reduces design risk it is generally unsuitable for production due to limited materials...

The treatment and management of wounds is a significant burden for healthcare providers. A recent study found that the NHS treats an estimated 2.2 million wounds per year, with an annual cost of £5.3 billion. Nearly £1.2m of these costs resulted from hospital admissions and day cases, and a further £1.2m in drug prescriptions. Wound management is predomin...

Diabetic foot ulcers are a major source of morbidity and resource use for patients with diabetes. According to NHS England, 3.2m people in the UK have diabetes and the worldwide diabetic population was 422m in 2014. The lifetime risk of a diabetic foot ulcer is 25%, with 15% of these leading to amputation, 85% of all lower-limb amputations. In the UK an e...

Inspection in aggressive environments is time-consuming, dangerous and expensive. We will address this by developing a low-cost, autonomous robot platform based on Cadscan’s novel, patent-pending 3D imaging technology. This uses multi-illuminator phase-shifting to capture high resolution imagery inexpensively using just an array of LEDs, a printed mask an...

Diabetes affects 422m people worldwide (WHO) and accounts for 12% of global health expenditure when related complications are included. Diabetic foot ulcers are a major source of morbidity and resource use for patients with diabetes. 28% may result in amputation although 80% of these are preventable. 56% of people with diabetes who have had ulcers survive...