Vector Automotive
Connected digital fabric-cutting solution for Automotive manufacturing
Vector Automotive—our Industry 4.0-ready and eco-friendly fabric cutting solution—ensures precision, productivity and material savings for car interior and seating manufacturers.
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Boost agility, slash costs, stay ahead of the competition
Vector Automotive empowers automotive interiors and seating companies to manage fluctuating production batches with fast, flexible changeovers while reducing fabric waste. With Vector Automotive’s exceptional cutting accuracy, you achieve top-tier quality and reduce the buffer between cut parts.
Use fabric in an eco-friendly
Maximize material savings with incredibly precise cutting. Cut the highly intricate shapes of automotive interiors parts with a near-zero buffer to ensure quality and prevent waste.
Minimize scrap, maximize quality
Cut a wide range of upholstery materials with unmatched accuracy. Minimize your scrap rate with Vector Automotive’s highly precise cutting quality and minimal buffer between cut parts.
Boost equipment uptime
Gain peace of mind with preventive and predictive maintenance. Achieve up to 98% availability thanks to built-in sensors for reporting and analysis.
Did you know?
Vector Automotive empowers automotive interior and seating manufacturers to imrove profitability with enhanced flexibility and minimized costs. The numbers speak for themselves.
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10
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increase in productivity due to leaner operations
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reduction in cutting buffer equates to 1% material savings
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machine availability achieved thanks to connectivity
Integrated digital fabric-cutting solution
Achieve the lowest cost and highest quality per cut part on the market today with a Vector Automotive cutting room.
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Boost material savings
Cut multiple layers of a wide range of automotive upholstery materials with minimal buffer between cut parts, thanks to major advances in components, software, and blade design.
Achieve impeccable quality
Ensure perfectly cut parts and a reduced scrap rate with Vector Automotive's ultra-precise cutting.
Prevent equipment failure and downtime
Achieve up to 98% availability thanks to built-in sensors that alert experts of equipment anomalies, equipment performance analysis and predictive maintenance services.
Access centralized production analytics
Gain online access to centralized production analytics data that provides an at-a-glance view of the main performance metrics so you can quickly identifiy areas for improvement.
Reach Corporate Social Responsibility goals
Minimize carbon emissions at the production and transportation stages with a lighter, more compact design. Protect worker safety and productivity with intergrated safety systems and an ergonomic design. Reduce equipment waste with long-life consumables.
What our customers say
Luo Wei
General Manager, Jizhong Group
We adopted Lectra's high-precision cutting equipment because they're our trusted partner. We know we can count on their sense of commitment.
Jan Alber
Industrial Engineering Manager, BOS Automotive
The reason for choosing the Vector iX6 was that we could see the advantages for the product field we have now in Klášterec.
Mario Sánchez
Cutting Manager
Vector iP has not only improved our quality standards but has also helped us optimize material consumption, making our process more profitable.
The Vector Automotive range
The market's first connected fabric cutter, Vector is comprised of a complete range of solutions, able to meet any automotive supplier's requirements.
Vector Automotive Q2, iX2 and iX2M
Achieve sustainability goals and gain the flexibility you need to fulfill the most stringent business requirements with Vector Automotive Q2, iX2 and iX2M.
Vector Automotive iQ series
Gain the ultimate in productivity and accuracy for low-variety mass production with the Vector Automotive iQ series.
Vector Automotive iX series
Boost productivity and flexibility for mass production with the Vector Automotive iX series.
Automotive Cutting Room 4.0
Unlock the full potential of your cutting room with an industry-first solution that provides end-to-end visiblity of processes and performance.
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