4 ways Empower Fashion transforms maintenance

In fashion manufacturing, every minute of cutting-room uptime matters. One stoppage can disrupt production flows, slow down sewing lines, and compromise delivery times. Traditional maintenance contracts provide good technical support, but today’s operational challenges require a stronger, more flexible, and more transparent approach.

Empower Fashion, Lectra’s new maintenance offer, breaks with traditional approaches to maintenance by guaranteeing the highest levels of uptime and boosting day-to-day operations with greater visibility and streamlined performance management.

Previous contracts delivered: reliable service.
Over the past 20 years, Lectra has evolved its maintenance contracts to help customers keep pace in a fast-moving industry, integrating Industry 4.0 technologies such as equipment connectivity, IoT, and the cloud. Empower Fashion builds on this foundation to deliver even greater value.  

Empower Fashion brings: guaranteed equipment uptime
Empower Fashion introduces an industry first: contractually guaranteed solution uptime.  By guaranteeing availability, Lectra goes even further in supporting your performance and positioning itself as a true partner in your success. 

Previous contracts delivered: machine-by-machine coverage
Managing separate contracts for each piece of equipment provided precise coverage, but it also created administrative complexity.

Empower Fashion brings: simplified contract management with site-wide coverage
Empower Fashion consolidates all spreaders, plotters, and cutting equipment under a single site-wide contract.  This simplifies management, increases budget control, and provides a clearer view of overall performance.

Previous contracts delivered: fixed usage per machine 
Usage limits were tied to individual cutters, which did not always align with real-life production fluctuations.

Empower Fashion brings: shared cutting capacity
Empower Fashion allows flexible cutting time capacity shared across your equipment. This enables you to maximize utilization, absorb production peaks, and avoid the costs associated with overworking a machine.

Previous contracts delivered: limited data visibility
Previous contracts offered limited visibility into technical and operational data.  

Empower Fashion brings: unified operational insight  
Empower Fashion coverage combines with Valia Fashion, Lectra’s cloud-based production management solution, to provide a complete view of cutting room data thanks to pre-configured dashboards. You gain : 

• Clear monitoring of equipment usage
• Transparent management of maintenance operations
• Objective measurement of environmental impact
• A consolidated view to support sustainable improvement of processes and performance.

Lectra’s decades-long dedication to customer performance has continually driven innovation in service and uptime protection. Empower Fashion marks a major leap forward by introducing a contractual uptime guarantee based on years of expertise and customer support.

Combined with  simplified contract management, flexible usage capacity, and centralized data, Empower Fashion gives your business the performance, agility, and visibility you need to produce with complete confidence.