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Material management

Obtaining optimization for better costing

Specially designed for the fashion industry, where fabric can account for up to 65% of a garment’s total production costs, Lectra’s material management solutions optimize markers, increase material efficiency and can enable fashion companies to achieve fabric savings of up to 5%, which equals a reduction in costs and increase in profits.

Efficient marker-making

DiaminoFashion is Lectra’s solution for interactive and automatic marker-making on plain and matched fabrics. This a high-technology tool is used by fashion professionals the world over. Lectra’s solution embeds easy, fast and effective interactive marker-making for prototyping, costing and production and fully automatic marker-making based on latest technologies, respecting fabric and model constraints.

Advanced material management

Optiplan, Lectra’s cut order planning and optimization solution, is the most powerful and comprehensive application of its kind. Spanning the entire cut order process, it enables manufacturers to exercise complete control over the production process, from marker-planning, through marker-making, material estimation, and costing simulation to spreading and cutting, giving companies total visibility at each phase of industrialization.

  • Marker specifications can be visualized on-screen with all associated costs and timing.
  • The solution is able to select the most efficient marker combinations and also suggest new ones.
  • Users can simulate a variety of production methods using precise, rather than estimated, figures.
  • The system generates accurate fabric, cost, and time assessments to help manufacturers organize their cutting room schedules and make decisions that optimize material and labor costs.

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