Having difficulty maximizing my leather yield and hitting my cost targets
One of the biggest challenges for an automotive leather interior manufacturer is achieving consistent quality for every type of hide and leather grade.
Leather is a natural material, with many imperfections and uneven textures, which means no two hides are the same.
You are having issues adjusting your semi-automated or manual cutting processes to adapt to these variations, resulting in material loss, which is costly.
Is your current cutting process too laborious and costly?
Automotive leather is still cut predominantly with die-press machinery in the industry. With fierce competition from the synthetic leather industry, you need to stay cost-competitive and minimize waste wherever you can. However, as a manufacturer, you are still struggling to lay out your patterns manually in the most cost-efficient way possible, and reduce the buffer between your cut parts to minimize your leather consumption. Vehicle program changeovers are also proving to be too costly, requiring 2-4 weeks of retooling and heavier financial investment.
Versalis Auto: Your solution to maximizing leather savings and boosting efficiency
It’s time to transition to digital leather cutting with Versalis Auto. Our integrated leather-cutting solution offers automated nesting that helps you calculate the most efficient way to lay out patterns on a hide, improving your leather yield by up to 7%. With our precise hide scanning system, you can detect imperfections in the leather prior to cutting. Our cutting heads can work around them, ensuring only the best parts of the hide are used for premium automotive interiors.