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inDustry professionals In a difficult macroeconomic climate that makes the future of the manufacturing sector increasingly uncertain, now more than ever, fashion companies need to combine flexibility and responsiveness when finalizing their collections. In the ready-to-wear sector, companies are finding new ways to cope with the growing pressure to reduce costs; they are being forced to manage their development cycles and their stocks strictly and carefully. The speed of collection renewal imposed by the fast fashion business model has also prompted certain brands to adopt a more balanced sourcing strategy by returning to suppliers closer to home. The need for creativity is felt more keenly than ever before: companies are required to bring to market products that blend originality, comfort and practicality, all at the right price. Products that fulfill all the requirements of fit, comfort and style have most chance of succeeding with the target consumer, especially when they have the added advantage of a recognized brand name.

In the luxury sector, where a slowdown in growth was greatly feared, the situation is more encouraging—consumers attracted by these brands’ images have buoyed the market.

However, caution is advised: as a result of this success, big names in the sector will be encouraged to extend their product ranges in line with their original business activity in order to capitalize on their power to raise aspirations.

Powerful, collaborative, business-oriented technology is essential for all apparel companies in today's globalized production environment. That is why, for more than 35 years, Lectra has provided its customers with ever more powerful and specialized solutions to enable them to overcome their specific challenges.

Drawing on its expertise in the entire product development process, from design to production, Lectra allows fashion industry professional to design, develop, produce and manage their collections, maximizing their know-how and capitalizing on their creative assets.

Now more than ever, Lectra provides close customer support, helping its partners deal with the challenges they face on a daily basis, and working constantly to anticipate the market’s future needs.

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VALUE-ADDED SERVICES FOR TRAINING, CONSULTANCY, INSTALLATION, AND MAINTENANCE

MaintenanCe anD support

With more than 300 engineers and experts intervening

onsite, or working in our five International Call Centers,

Lectra offers a complete range of high value-added

services which allow customers to secure their invest-

ment and ensure its profitability. These services make

up a comprehensive maintenance offer which can be

adapted to meet every need: user assistance, preventive

and reactive maintenance, design optimization, product

development, and help with the production process.

They ensure a significant increase in productivity by

optimizing the use of design and production tools.

In this way, preventive maintenance on equipment

minimizes down time and ensures total transparency

for production. The principle: Lectra consultants

monitor equipment remotely through a permanent link

created with Lectra solutions, leaving customers free

to concentrate on their core business. Subscribing to

Maintenance and Support Services gives customers

access to the latest innovations developed by Lectra’s

220 R&D engineers. Among other things, Lectra

guarantees response times, offers accurate evaluations

carried out by experts, and ensures optimal availability

of spare parts and consumables (all tested, approved

and guaranteed).

training, evaluation anD Consulting

To enable its customers to be more efficient and

develop their skills, Lectra has more than 190

trainers and professional consultants responsible

for delivering specially designed training programs

and who combine teaching skills, product expertise,

and business know-how. They thus help teams

develop all the skills necessary to get the best

OPTIMIZE

about leCtra

Lectra is the world leader in integrated technology solutions that automate, streamline, and accelerate product design, development, and manufacturing

processes for industries using soft materials. Lectra develops the most advanced specialized software and cutting systems and provides associated services to

a broad array of markets including fashion (apparel, accessories, footwear), automotive (car seats and interiors, airbags), furniture, as well as a wide variety of

other market sectors, such as the aeronautical and marine industries, wind power, personal protective equipment. Lectra serves 23,000 customers in more than

100 countries with 1,500 employees. The company is listed on Euronext Paris.

For more information, please visit www.lectra.com

out of their Lectra solutions by giving training

tailored to each company's needs. With a view

to providing full support for its customers, Lectra also

has a team of specialists to analyze each company's

challenges and identify the technologies best suited

to resolve them. Lectra’s consultants—who possess

in-depth knowledge of the fashion industry—draw on

proven design, development and production experience

to carry out precise evaluations and deliver concrete

recommendations on change leadership and project

implementation.

KALEDO®: THE CREATIVE REVOLUTION FOR TExTILE AND GARMENT DESIGNERSDesigners have to be increasingly innovative and creative

in order to produce collections more frequently and with

a clearer appeal to the target customer. In addition to

ensuring that clothing lines are coherent, they need

to reinforce the company’s defining concepts and

develop a strong brand image.

Developed specifically for creative teams in the

fashion sector, the Kaledo® range covers all their

requirements in textile and collection creation. A true

platform for professional design, Kaledo gives textile

and apparel designers the visual and virtual environ-

ment they need to create and manage apparel and

fabric collections.

Powerful design tools stimulate artistic creativity

and accelerate the design and collaboration

process, reducing the need for repetitive manual

modifications.

Kaledo paves the way for smooth communication

between designers and those in charge of product

development. Thus, by involving the whole develop-

ment team—designers, buyers, and pattern makers

and developers at an early stage in the design process,

sketches are made up intelligently, and each design’s

integrity is preserved throughout the product life cycle.

This accelerates the creation of storyboards and model

variants as well as the addition of updates. In a context

where demand for new products is high, Kaledo ensures

streamlined processes and significant optimization

of the development cycle.

The result of more than 35 years of experience with

the biggest names in fashion, Lectra's Kaledo range

was developed in line with the working processes

of each activity—collection creation, textile design.

The solution offers designers an even more user-

friendly working environment, with all the necessary

information easily available.

MODARIS®: THE wORLDwIDE STANDARD FOR PATTERN-MAKING Designed to meet the needs of fashion companies

around the world in terms of lead times, quality, and

garment fit, for more than 10 years, Modaris® has been

the industry standard for the biggest names in fashion.

It is the most popular software among pattern makers,

with more than 22,000 licenses worldwide.

At the crossroads between design and production,

Modaris enables users to create patterns for all types

of garment—men’s wear, women’s wear, children’s

wear, lingerie, corsetry, and even work clothes.

Totally job- and process-oriented, Modaris covers a

comprehensive range of functions, including on-screen

management of models, digitization, pattern verification,

grading, size management, and pre-production.

Impressive capacities for data exchange with other CAD

systems on the market make Modaris an indispensable

application for networked companies (with multiple sites,

partners, and sub-contractors in several countries, etc.).

Modaris is suitable for all user profiles and product

types.

MODARIS ExPERTPRO: A PRODUCTIVITY bOOST FOR THE PATTERN DEVELOPMENT OFFICEModaris ExpertPro is a unique software solution on

the market and is able to improve productivity by up

to 50%. It was developed at the end of the 1990s in

collaboration with the biggest names in fashion and

luxury goods to assist in the development of the most

complex, highest-quality collections.

Modaris ExpertPro allows users to create powerful

and intelligent associations between pattern elements

through two original concepts that together form

Lectra’s unique approach to model creation. Modaris

ExpertPro’s all-size pattern-making system enables

companies to develop a model in all sizes in a single

step without having to go through the grading process

separately. The software’s dynamic dependencies

concept gives users the ability to create links between

pattern elements so that any modifications made to

one piece of a pattern are automatically transferred to all

dependent pieces. In this way, Modaris ExpertPro allows

pattern makers to organize the pattern development

process and keep a record of the way in which patterns

are constructed. Pattern designers can thus reuse 80

to 90% of the elements created for one collection as

the basis for a new one.

From the creation of the very first collection using

this software, development times are reduced by 20

to 30% and go on decreasing, year after year, as the

company builds its know-how, regardless of the team

in charge of development. Modaris ExpertPro has

established itself as the best way to optimize deve-

lop-ment costs by making the best use of teams of

experienced pattern makers, who are now able to

cope with two to five times more models than with

traditional pattern-making software.

Pushing back the boundaries of pattern-making

and providing fashion professionals with the means

to increase productivity in pattern development and

create more models, Modaris ExpertPro is now

the pattern-making solution used by 80% of luxury

ready-to-wear brands in Europe.

In a context of increasingly frequent collection

renewal, apparel sector professionals seek to

optimize their product development processes, in

terms of both time and costs, particularly by making

grading easier and faster. Lectra’s offer therefore

proposes multiple grading techniques (manual,

automatic, expert) to suit the different characteristics

of pieces developed and industrialized products.

CREATE DEVELOP

MODARIS 3D FIT: VIRTUAL 3D PROTOTYPING FOR RAPID MODEL APPROVALLinked to Modaris, Lectra's pattern-making solution,

Modaris 3D Fit enables companies to verfiy garment

fit and validate styles and collections—it represents a

major breakthrough in CAD. This virtual 3D prototyping

solution—the most powerful on the market—both

reduces the number of physical prototypes necessary

and facilitates communication within the company

(between pattern makers, designers, product

developers, sales and marketing teams, etc.) and

between principals and sub-contractors, irrespective

of their numbers and location.

Lectra’s innovation, the result of eight years of research

and development, allows simulation and realistic

visualization of garment models in three dimensions.

This is achieved through a combination of material

information (based on a library of 120 different fabrics

and their physical characteristics), 2D patterns, and

virtual 3D mannequins (standard and configurable).

With its powerful fabric visualization tools and realistic

graphics, Modaris 3D Fit ensures complete control of

the fit of models (ease, balance, proportions, etc.) in all

sizes, a huge leap forward in CAD technology.

Taking into consideration the creative constraints

of designers as well as those related to the

development of pattern-making specifications,

Modaris 3D Fit enables an evaluation of virtual

prototypes, on site or remotely, between principals

and sub-contractors. It thus enables the different

contibutors to the process to validate the style of

garments and collections, even before the production

of the first physical prototype.

"Creativity is something we have inside ourselves. Kaledo supports our creativity and lets us speed up all the technical activities involved in design. We're now free to devote more time to innovation. When we have an idea for a product, or a sketch of a shirt or accessory, we can simply draw it and modify it in real time, whether we’re working on textiles, styles or colors. With Kaledo, all our decisions are made faster, because we can see the options, very realistically, on-screen. Kaledo is a tool that allows us to go straight from a concept or an idea to a visual representation."

Paolo Montefusco, Design Project Manager,

Harmont & Blaine, Italy.

For Princesse tam.tam, Modaris ExpertPro’s dependencies concept has made a real difference. “We no longer need to modify pieces one by one, and then extract them, with the risk each time of forgetting certain pieces or of making a mistake. Now, when we modify a pattern, the same modification is made automatically in all the pieces linked to the pattern. It’s a guarantee that our modifications are carried out with precision. Working with dependencies has reduced the time we spend finalizing a product by at least 30 %. Modaris has really revolutionized our way of working and Modaris ExpertPro has added a whole new dimension to our efficiency and our productivity."

Valérie Buisson, Pattern-making Manager, Princesse tam.tam, France.

With Kaledo Collection, Kaledo Print, Kaledo Knit,

and Kaledo Weave, users can easily propose, test

and modify multiple creations and generate their

variants. Designers can thus translate their creative

ideas and communicate them to working partners

with ease using very realistic simulations that enable

everybody to fully grasp their ideas and make the

right decisions.

textile appliCations speCifiCally for the Creation of new fabriCs anD prints

Kaledo Print, Kaledo Weave and Kaledo Knit

software developed for the creation of printed, woven

and knitted textiles respectively, meet the needs of

fashion companies that want to stand out from the

competition by designing fabrics for their collections.

The multiple possibilities offered by Kaledo textile

software help unleash creativity by enabling designers

to test numerous ideas. They thus capitalize on the

company’s assets by limiting the costs involved in the

purchase of external designs.

Uncomplicated and created specifically for professional

use, this textile software also enables designers to

provide precise technical specifications, facilitating the

production process. Fabrics created and their variants

can be easily integrated into Kaledo Collection, allowing

for rapid development of product lines.

a unique blenD of Creativity anD intelligenCe With Kaledo Collection, designers now have powerful

visual tools for developing, testing and presenting

more creative ideas. Styles can be rapidly simulated

on-screen using the fabric association drag-and-drop

functions. Designers also have rapid access to style

archives and previous collections, which they can

use as a source of inspiration or in order to develop

variants. They can also simplify the management of

these resources using sorting and filing functions.

Modifications to styles are updated automatically and

transferred to all related documents to which the

change is relevant. With the elimination of a number

of repetitive and tedious tasks, designers are free

to concentrate on creating new models. Decisions

are always made using the most recent information.

As soon as products have received approval, reports

are generated automatically. This allows all those

involved in the product development cycle to have

immediate access to the data they need.

Kaledo Collection enables designers to share visual

information and related analytical data (most recent

image of the product, style name, colors available,

fabric names and their position within the garment,

and personalized bills of materials) with all colleagues.

This ensures that the work of product design and

development teams is perfectly synchronized.

SPECIALIZED SUPPORT FOR

CONSULTANCY, TRAINING AND

OPTIMIZATION

Lectra guarantees optimal use of its

solutions through a range of high value-

added services.

Consulting: With specialist knowledge of

the industry and the processes involved in

the apparel business, Lectra’s consultants

support its customers throughout their

development projects.

Training: All over the world, Lectra’s trainers

ensure that users are quickly operational

and that they make the best use of their

solutions through training programs

tailored to each customer’s particular activity

and products, and the level of expertise of

their teams.

Remote Expertise: With five International

Call Centers worldwide, Lectra’s experts

enable its customers to get the most out of

their software within their own environment

through remote control of workstations.

® : Kaledo, Modaris, Diamino, ProSpin, Optiplan, Progress and Vector are registered trademarks of Lectra SA, France

From the choice of a marker through to spreading

and cutting, each decision is optimized to incur

the lowest costs and follow the most efficient cut

plan possible. Optiplan can enable companies to

achieve additional fabric savings of up to 5% and

helps eliminate the risk of error during cut order

planning. Capacities for selecting the most efficient

markers, proposing alternatives, simulating costs,

and anticipating new production orders make

Optiplan an essential decision-making tool.

PROGRESSbRIO: FOR EFFICIENT SPREADINGLectra's ProgressBrio spreading systems guarantee

a perfect spread for all types of fabric prior to cutting.

An electronic connection with CAD applications

allows automatic programming of the spreader

for non-stop production and excellent flaw manage-

ment. The cradle feed system facilitates fast loading

of rolls for high flexibility and ensures both a

tension-free spread and perfect fabric alignment.

Fabric savings are guaranteed, regardless of the

type of fabric and spreading method chosen.

VECTOR®: THE MOST POwERFUL, RAPID, AND INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED CUTTING SOLUTION ON THE MARKETSpecially developed to meet the needs of apparel

professionals, the VectorFashion strengthens fashion

companies' competitive advantage. It optimizes

the use of technological equipment in terms of

productivity and improves the flexibility and reliability

of processes. The VectorFashion guarantees a better

throughput, optimizes production costs, reduces the

risk of error, and increases capacity, allowing companies

to fill a larger number of orders. It offers unbeatable

cut quality, and with Mosaïc, Lectra’s pattern motif

recognition and processing software, that same

impeccable cut is also guaranteed for fabrics that need

to be matched. Lectra's strength lies in its ability

to offer highly specialized cutting solutions which

help the fashion industry overcome the challenges

it faces. A number of different variant models

make up Lectra's VectorFashion range.

aCCess to high CapaCity Cutting, without CoMproMise

VectorFashionFP is the ideal choice to meet the needs

of first-time users of technology. It offers power and

ease-of-use, with no compromise on quality, making

it the perfect first investment for companies that

previously cut by hand.

The VectorFashionFP is a conveyor cutter that facilitates

the production of small runs with great accuracy and

within tight deadlines. Markers can thus be created

with pieces at tangent edges, resulting in significant

material savings. Lectra’s best experts oversee the

integration of the cutting solution into the production

environment, providing training and support.

PRODUCE

Delivering high-quality cut with no compromise,

the VectorFashionM88 and VectorFashionM55

are excellent investments for companies looking

to implement digitally-controlled cutting for the first

time. These solutions are easy to use, ensure an excep-

tional cut quality, and have operating costs among

the lowest on the market. The VectorFashionM88

and VectorFashionM55 are versatile cutting sys-

tems, able to cut up to 8cm of fabric in 2 widths. This

equipment is particularly suitable for cutting

thick, compressible materials. Simple to use, they

can produce garments of all types, to optimal

quality standards.

flexible, just-in-tiMe proDuCtion

VectorFashionFX is state-of-the art technology

that responds to the need for flexibility among

companies that specialize in fashion. Modular and

reliable, it is the ideal solution for small production

runs, re-stocks, and for cutting prototypes and

samples.

In addition, its unique ability to cut non-stop while

the spread is automatically loaded onto the production

zone guarantees maximized productivity.

The advanced pilot software that accompanies

these cutting systems optimizes the blade path in

order to guarantee perfect cut pieces, even for those

with tangent edges. It adapts the system's behavior

to the specific needs of different types of material

and offers improved handling of curves and other

complex shapes.

A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTELLIGENT CUTTING ROOM OFFERLectra provides a cutting room offer specially developed

for fashion and apparel professionals, designed to meet

their specific challenges, whatever their production

model. Lectra’s equipment is suitable for both short

production runs that require a high degree of flexibility

and mass production models, regardless of the type of

fabric used. Products manufactured can thus be brought

to market faster and at a reduced cost.

OPTIPLAN®: CONTROL YOUR CUT ORDER PLANNINGThe veritable nerve center of the cutting room, Optiplan®,

controls and monitors Lectra’s intelligent, communi-

cative equipment and enables companies to improve

order management. It helps control fabric stock,

taking the availability of raw materials into account

during the programming of production orders. With

Optiplan, companies with several production sites

(within one country or throughout the globe) are also

able to optimize the use of their CAD/CAM equipment.

Optiplan generates precise instructions for each stage

of the planning process.

DIAMINOFASHION: THE MEANS TO ACHIEVE REAL FAbRIC SAVINGS With DiaminoFashion, Lectra offers the most powerful

marker-making solution on the market for prototyping,

production, and precise evaluation of material costs.

Taking a greater range of constraints into account,

this software enables users to generate more markers

with greater efficiency and better quality, regardless of

fabric and garment type.

A highly flexible solution, DiaminoFashion integra-

tes automatic marker-making into the interactive

marker-making process. This gives users the option

of creating markers in a completely automatic mode,

or of placing the most important pieces interactively

then using the tool’s powerful algorithms to complete

the marker automatically. In batch mode, Diamino

Fashion facilitates the management and processing

of marker lists 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Operators are thus freed from tedious tasks.

What’s more, because the software is completely

integrated with Lectra's pattern-making solution,

each modification made to a pattern in Modaris®

is immediately transferred to DiaminoFashion, which

prepares markers for use on plotters, spreaders and

automated cutting systems.

PROSPINFASHIONST: SINGLE-PLY CUTTING FOR PROTOTYPES AND SHORT PRODUCTION RUNSIn a context of increasingly frequent collection renewal,

reducing product finalization times is essential.

To do this, it is particularly important to optimize the

prototyping phase and ensure a capacity to operate

within a lean manufacturing model. The ProSpin-

FashionST is extremely flexible and has been specially

developed for prototyping and shorter production

runs. This fixed monoply cutter is completely modular,

available in different widths and lengths; it is suitable

for a variety of different working environments.

Located in La Marsa, near Tunis, MFC (Marsa Fashion Company) is a specialized manufacturer of knitwear and woven-fabric clothing for women. Created in 1998, the company produces two million pieces per year, mainly for the French brand Morgan, and also for La Redoute. In order to ensure perfect cut quality for all the garments it produces, MFC decided to invest in Lectra’s new VectorFashionMH. This investment comes in addition to the Lectra equipment the company already uses, which includes pattern-making and marker-making solutions, Modaris and Diamino, as well as two Brio spreaders, the Optiplan cutting room management solution, and a Vector automated cutting solution.

"The cutting speed of the new VectorFashionMH is far superior to that of the previous generation of Vector. Our production has doubled in the last six years. We have 120 different styles to manage every week, and we cut an average of 20,000 pieces per day, so speed is a very important factor for us.”

Nizar Halouani, Production Manager, MFC, Tunisia.

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"With its powerful algorithms that tight-pack all the pieces, DiaminoFashion Expert has enabled us to achieve an incredible rate of efficiency with our fabrics. We have made material savings of between 3 and 4%. Everything is automated—not just the evaluations, but the marker-making as well. As a result, we can multiply the number of markers made in the same amount of time. With all the models we process, that kind of automation is really fantastic. While Diamino Expert is running markers, our team is free to manage other tasks in the development office. Diamino Expert has freed up about 20% more time compared to before."

Valérie Loiseau, Development Office Manager for JC Confection,

a French company that manufactures top-of-the-line women's wear

as well as garments for its own brand, Isis.

DEDICATED PROJECT SUPPORTTo ensure effective support for PLM project imple-

mentation, Lectra has a network of more than 190

consultants and project managers in its subsidia-

ries across the globe. These experts have in-depth

knowledge of the sector and the challenges facing the

fashion industry. For each project, Lectra Fashion PLM

is adapted to the particularities of the customer’s

processes, using a rigorous and structured inte-

gration methodology which takes into account the

specific constraints of collection management cycles.

Business expertise and project management metho-

dology designed specially for the fashion sector ensure

timely implementation and respected deadlines. More

importantly, these assets also contribute to optimal

support of teams as they manage the inevitable change

that is an essential part of the introduction of such a

strategic and collaborative solution into the company.

LECTRA FASHION PLM: FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF THE PRODUCT LIFECYCLECapitalizing on its 35 years’ experience with the fashion

industry worldwide, Lectra is the only market player with

a technology and services offer specifically tailored to

the needs of this sector.

The range and specialized content of Lectra Fashion

PLM make it an unequaled solution on the market.

A real performance accelerator for fashion professio-

nals, Lectra Fashion PLM simplifies the management

of business processes, workflow, and collaborative

work throughout the product lifecycle—from the

designer’s initial idea to the finished product, ready

for sale.

Lectra Fashion PLM offers a truly collaborative

environment for the design, development and

manufacturing of fashion items (apparel, footwear

and accessories) together with optimal collection

management. It is the only PLM solution to integrate

process management applications—Line Planning,

product design and development management,

strategic sourcing, and Workflow Management—

with market-leading business applications for

design (Kaledo), pattern-making (Modaris), virtual

3D and physical prototyping (Modaris 3D Fit) ,

and marker-making (Diamino).

MANAGE

unrivaleD Cutting quality for large proDuCtion runs

The VectorFashionMH’s high performance and excel-

lent cutting quality make it the industry standard

for mass production of garments, irrespective of the

fabric to be processed or the complexity of the shape

to be cut. Designed to deal with the thickest spreads,

the VectorFashionMH offers better optimization of

cutting time than all other systems available on the

market, and also streamlines the cutting phase.

The MH8 variant model is capable of cutting

compressed knit spreads of up to 8cm thick and

compressed woven spreads of up to 5cm thick.

This multi-purpose cutter is able to handle even

the most varied orders.

flexible, high voluMe proDuCtion with no CoMproMise on quality

With cutting productivity of up to twice that usually

achieved with other technologies, for large manufac-

turers the VectorFashionMX is an ideal solution to

an increase in orders, shortened lead times, and the

need to optimize processes.

The surprising speed of the VectorFashionMX, even

when cutting the most complex pieces, and the precision

of its operating system, which allows for cutting with

no buffer zone between pieces, result in unprecedented

cutting room flexibility and raw material savings of up

to 5%. Even the largest orders can be handled swiftly,

enabling manufacturers to multiply the number of

orders produced, while still respecting deadlines and

without consuming raw materials allocated to other

orders. In terms of quality-productivity ratio, the Vector

FashionMX is peerless on the market.

an offer tailor-MaDe to Meet the neeDs of high-voluMe jeans, lingerie anD knitwear ManufaCturers

In order to provide the best offer possible to overcome

the particular constraints of these industries, Lectra

has developed three specially adapted models.

The VectorDenimMX ensures exceptional producti-

vity for jeans manufacturers working with even the

thickest materials. It guarantees the high levels of

quality expected by denim brands for products that

are increasingly innovative and sophisticated.

Ideal for cutting the small pieces required for

lingerie, the VectorLingerieMX is equipped with

pilot software that adapts the machine’s behavior to

the deliacte and stretchable materials used in this

market. For maunfacturers of knitted garments,

the VectorFashionMX9 is the most productive

model on the market, combining impressive cutting

speed, the capacity to cut thicker than normal spreads,

and exceptional quality.

Through a maintenance plan integrated into the Vector

range’s pilot software, Lectra’s solutions work in a

proactive mode. A system of alerts allows companies to

take action even before malfunction occurs; this limits

the need for intervention by Lectra’s technicians and

keeps machine down time to a minimum. To ensure

that the tool’s integration into the production site is

both efficient and reliable, the pilot software genera-

tes activity and productivity reports. This intelligent

system makes real improvements in a context where

the slightest delay can have serious consequences.

"We started looking at our business activity and found a lot of signs of inefficiency and inconsistency throughout our design phases and communication. This was holding us back,” said Cathy Thorpe. "With Lectra Fashion PLM everything is right there in the system, completely harmonized, and there's a consis-tent ‘Please Mum’ way of doing things.” That improved consistency has had a direct impact on their level of efficiency, which Thorpe says she expects to improve by up to 30% once all teams in the company are fully operational on Lectra Fashion PLM. "The combined aspects of Product Data Management and Workflow Management of Lectra Fashion PLM allow for better communication and more efficiency within that communication,” she said. "As a result, more information is shared—and shared better, and decisions are made faster." Improved efficiency also means more growth opportu-nities for Please Mum. "Now we can focus on chasing business more, which we couldn’t really do before Lectra.”

Cathy Thorpe, President, Please Mum, Canada.

“Our biggest challenge is to ensure the highest possible cutting quality for all the pieces used to make our products. Lingerie items contain several components, which are often small and intricately shaped. If those components are not cut well, we need to ask our stitchers to make corrections during the sewing process, which opens up the possibility of lapses in quality. Lectra provided the best offer in terms of quality, efficiency and productivity. We installed the VectorLingerieMX in our cutting room and performed several cutting tests. We provided feedback and worked together with Lectra’s R&D department to optimize the cutter’s performance. Our objective with this new Lectra cutter was to cut 60 layers with buffer zones of three millimeters. With the VectorLingerieMX, we quickly reached our target. Cutting is 30% faster, and reducing buffer zones from five to three millimeters allowed us to reduce fabric consumption by 4%, which translates into an annual saving of €500,000.”

Hugo De Rijcke, Director of Production, Van de Velde, Belgium.

SMART SERVICES

This unique offer, available on

the entire VectorFashion range, is

made possible by the concept of in-built

intelligence. It incorporates real-time

equipment monitoring, pilot software

updates, a preventative maintenance

program, and a variety of other high

value-added services, all delivered by

Lectra’s experts in its five International

Call Centers.

FASHION, IN PERPETUAL MOTION

Consumer demands are changing:

originality, quality and attractive prices are

now key.

Shareholders too, have their own requirements:

increased profitability and better cost control.

These contradictory expectations change the

fashion world’s whole perspective.

A bALANCED EQUATION

With Lectra Fashion PLM, companies in this

sector multiply the factors that lead to

progress—innovation, creativity, profitability,

and commercial success.

Now they can:

• propose more new products per year

• manage concurrent development cycles

• manage long and complex supply chains

• reduce development costs

• adapt to new economic models.

GALLERY: A COLLAbORATIVE PRODUCT

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

SPECIFICALLY FOR THE FASHION INDUSTRY

Developed by Lectra in collaboration with apparel

and retail professionals, Gallery is without doubt the

most suitable solution for small and medium-sized

structures. A truly collaborative software solution,

Gallery enables users to centralize, structure

and share detailed product data and graphics

between all those involved in product development.

Among other things, it allows companies to monitor

and verify product development tasks and generate

status reports on the progress of models or

product lines.

With prototype evaluation and the capacity to

manage multiple fitting sessions, Gallery is flexible

enough to handle the iterative nature of this process.

By reducing the number of steps necessary to

develop prototypes and managing key process

tasks (specification definition, fitting, costing),

Gallery considerably shortens product develop-

ment time and lowers associated costs.