FocalPoints Workshop is the ideal solution for large Labs that want to manufacture their own lenses or third-party designs with a fully integrated package.
Workshop automates and coordinates the contact lens ordering, manufacturing and shipping operations by providing sophisticated systems to manage and facilitate the full breadth of activity of a modern contact lens laboratory.
Its many features include order processing, scheduling, automatic cutting of lenses, planning and logging of controls, automatic relaunching of rejects, labelling, grouping of lenses by order and by customer, printing of shipping documents, transmitting of data to accounting programs, etc.
FocalPoints Workshop will help the Lab:
Workshop can cut symmetric, toric, asymmetric lenses and includes the following components:
FocalPoints Designer is at the core of the FocalPoints environment. Designer allows you to create the rules that define a lens design, set materials and machining characteristics, and import and export saved designs. FocalPoints Designer has a number of powerful tools for visualising lens optics and geometry that allow you to find problems or fine tune a design before it goes to the Lathe. In addition to traditional spheres and conic sections, FocalPoints offers Arcs, Bezier curves, Splines, and automatic Blending curves. FocalPoints allows the Lens Designer to dynamically control the lens geometry through the use of formulas or tables. Tables or formulas may use a number of lens parameters, such as diameter, lens power or base-curve radius. Formulas, tables, edge shapes or other lens elements can be saved to disk and used in other lens designs.
FocalPoints aids CL manufacturers to provide better lenses and services to their clients. It is designed to automate and control most common functions. Orders are entered through a straightforward order interface. Orders are launched according to the priority level designated by the Lab based on the promised delivery date. While performing complex operations, the system is actually simple for the operator because so many functions take place automatically.
One of the goals of FocalPoints is to speed up the development of a CL design. In the past, the lens designer was required to cut a lot of samples to verify the resulting lens geometry. Working by trial and error resulted in high development costs (time and materials), without mentioning the risk of damaging diamonds in the production of new complex designs. The different Simulation Testing tools offered by FocalPoints are aimed at reducing development times by using a set of virtual analysis tools, which allow the FP Designer Expert to identify and remove the most evident issues in the design project before going on the Lathe.
The FocalPoints Workshop Full Traceability module gathers all the information logged by every FP programs during the manufacturing process. The entire lens history, from production to shipping, can be accessed from a single interface. Every task performed on the lens is recorded by system, tracking the operation details, the date/time and the operator's name. The full lens history can be reviewed at any time and it's based on the WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHO approach.
Workshop allows manufacturing under license, but also developing your own design to be licensed to other FocalPoints users securely. In order to protect a design and issue a License, one must have the Design Owner Toolkit. Being able to distribute or manufacture third-party designs under License has several advantages: accessing new markets, increasing margins and reducing risks, creating new revenue streams.
