Lectra, the world leader in software, CAD/CAM equipment, and associated services for your industry
fashion, automotive, furniture, aeronautics, marine, and other industries
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For most companies, the last few months have been characterized by the extent to which the world economy has worsened. Few countries and sectors have escaped the effects of this unprecedented crisis. In this context, Lectra’s solid business model has revealed its strength and enabled us to maintain our worldwide leadership in our field, while some of our competitors find themselves in a critical situation. With a 2009 R&D budget of €16 million ($22.5 million), supported by a team of 220 engineers, we intend to continue investments in order to offer you the full benefits of the technological leadership and high added value of our products and services offer, specifically created for each of the market sectors we serve. From design through to pattern-making and virtual 3D prototyping, our software covers the entire product lifecycle, allowing you to reduce development time and costs, unleash creativity and increase responsiveness. For the fashion industry, our expertise extends to the optimization of processes and product lifecycle management, through our PLM solution, which draws on 35 years of business know-how.
The result of many years’ experience and the work of a team of 80 researchers, our cutting room solutions enable you to improve cost control and respond to a growing demand for faster product renewal while increasing flexibility and productivity, in order to become more competitive in a marketplace where products have an ever shorter shelf life. These solutions can create up to 10% material savings and are able to increase productivity by up to 60%. Our technology, unequalled in terms of both performance and scope, is underpinned by a global network of Lectra experts. We have capitalized on our work with the fashion and automotive industries in particular, developing best practices on which we have based our entire offer. More than ever, we wish to use our experience to support your activities, helping you to overcome the impact of the economic crisis and enabling you to emerge from this period stronger and fully prepared for whatever the future may hold.
*Product Lifecycle Management
Daniel Harari, Chief Executive Officer, Lectra
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|  April 16, 2009
New version of Lectra's software suite for MFC Furniture automated leather-cutting system improves productivity for upholstered furniture manufacturers. More | March 16, 2009
Lectra launches Modaris® V6R1 and optimizes model and collection development. More | February 18, 2009
Lectra and WWA sign PLM partnership agreement. More |
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|  June 11, 2009
Fashion/Apparel Webinar: Design lifecycle management with Kaledo Collection—Leveraging in-house talent and design assets to capitalize on new technology. More | June 18, 2009
Fashion/Apparel Webinar: Optiplan - Cut order planning and optimization - Reduce fabric consumption and optimize manufacturing processes. More | | Lectra at the leading international exhibitions. More |
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|  SCHOOLS IMPLEMENT LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY WITH LECTRA’S ROMANS CAD® SOLUTION FOR FASHION ACCESSORY DESIGN
Accessories have an increasingly important role to play within the strategies implemented by major fashion brands. To fulfill a growing demand for professionals in this industry, most fashion schools are keen to offer their students the possibility of acquiring specific skills in the design and development of footwear, bags and other accessories. More |
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|  ZOOM ON: OPTIPLAN®
- Orchestrating production processes to work in perfectly optimized harmony
- Our customers, in their own words: 1154 LILL Studio
| FOCUS: FOOTWEAR & LEATHER GOODS
- Stephen Tierney, Editor of footwearbiz.com shares his view of today’s global footwear market
- Lectra's responses to the challenges facing the footwear and leather goods industries – Interview with Philippe Albert, Manager, Strategic Projects – Footwear and Luggage, and Antoine Mercier, Lectra’s Romans Cad® Product Manager
- Our customers, in their own words: Clarks, Formas Kunz...
| EXPERTIZ: 5 QUESTIONS FOR…
- Pascale de Wavrechin, pattern-making & prototyping solutions expert - Accelerating production and decision-making processes while controlling costs: Pascale sees a pattern emerging...
- More customers success stories: Giada, 1154 LILL Studio, Andres, Céline, Christian Moreau, Princesse tam.tam, Lise Charmel, Pronto Model, KappAhl...
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|   ORCHESTRATING PRODUCTION PROCESSES TO WORK IN PERFECTLY OPTIMIZED HARMONYOptiplan®: Lectra’s cut order planning and optimization solution, the most powerful and comprehensive of its kind! Optiplan 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. More |
|  OUR CUSTOMERS, IN THEIR OWN WORDS: 1154 LILL STUDIO...A satisfied customer looks at the benefits expected and achieved using Optiplan. More |
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|   APPOINTMENT WITH STEPHEN TIERNEY, PUBLICATION DIRECTOR FOR FOOTWEARBIZ.COMStephen Tierney shares his view of today’s global footwear market.“If everyone in the world today consumed two pairs of shoes a year, the annual global footwear production requirement would be 15 billion pairs. At the moment, the footwear factories of the world are producing 14.5 billion pairs a year, but because the world’s population is growing quickly, we could soon be in trouble unless capacity increases...” More |
|  LECTRA'S RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGES FACING THE FOOTWEAR AND LEATHER GOODS INDUSTRIESInterview with Philippe Albert, Manager, Strategic Projects – Footwear and Luggage, and Antoine Mercier, Lectra’s Romans Cad® Product Manager.The footwear and leather goods markets have changed drastically over the last few years. Industries need to work in the shortest possible design and development cycles. They must have the means to maintain an almost permanent potential for designing new collections, and they need to be able to manufacture increasingly complex products. More than ever, fashion companies need to combine know-how and technology to overcome these challenges. The technology solutions that Lectra proposes integrate industry-specific applications for every stage in the creation of an item of footwear, such as the last, the sole, design... More |
|  OUR CUSTOMERS, IN THEIR OWN WORDS: CLARKS, FORMAS KUNZ...Major players in the international footwear and leather goods industries tell us about the advantages of Romans Cad software and examine the benefits of using this industry-specific solution. More |
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|   EXPERTIZ: 5 QUESTIONS FOR...PASCALE DE WAVRECHIN, PATTERN-MAKING & PROTOTYPING SOLUTIONS EXPERT Accelerating production and decision-making processes while controlling costs: Pascale sees a pattern emerging…Consumer demand, growing competition, and difficult macroeconomic conditions are forcing fashion companies to find new ways to speed up development processes, reduce costs, and streamline the validation of models, while maintaining their quality standards. In order to multiply collections, anticipate trends, and bring the right products to market at the right time, they have to be ever more inventive and responsive. More and more, fashion firms are turning to the latest advances in computer-aided design to help turn challenges into advantages. More |
|  MORE CUSTOMERS SUCCESS STORIES...Giada, 1154 LILL Studio, Andres, Céline, Christian Moreau, Princesse tam.tam, Lise Charmel, Pronto Model, KappAhl.... More |
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