How to achieve success in the workwear and protective clothing industry

How to keep up with a booming workwear and protective clothing market

Garment manufacturers seeking to benefit from the rapid growth and activity of the workwear and protective clothing market will need to keep up with production demands and quality expectations by optimizing its production process with the latest digital, agile, and collaborative solutions.

A unique challenge of producing workwear and protective clothing is that workwear needs to be certified. Developing a single garment for user comfort, that is suitable to protect the wearer against multi-hazard environments, such as fires and chemical splashes, is a product design and development challenge that becomes more complex as the amount of requirements and number of participants in the overall development process increases.

Efficient production planning and optimal nesting strategy require the ability to adjust quickly to various fabric handling specifications. The key to success is optimizing fabric handling requirements and production rules by embracing digital, agile, and collaborative solutions to overcome specific material, product development and production challenges.

Accelerate production and achieve quality standards with ease

With Fashion On Demand by Lectra garment manufacturers are able to keep up with production demands and quality expectations of the workwear and protective clothing market by overcoming workflow challenges to produce garments of unparalleled quality and comfort.

Digital technology and automation solutions are helping forward-thinking manufacturers to produce cost effective garments with greater efficiency by optimizing production processes for significant improvements in:

• Time savings by managing fabric types for a wide variety of materials
• Cost reductions by facilitating collaboration with 360° visibility of the workflow
• Complexity management by automating and streamlining the product development

John Karban, Vice-President, Operations at Fire-Dex says, “Fashion On Demand by Lectra helps us automate our end-to-end order processing, optimize material consumption and most importantly, increase our production volume to meet rising consumer demand.”

Adapting production processes to include digital fabric catalogues, workflow visibility, collaboration technology, and cutting room digitalization and automation enables manufacturers to handle everything from last-minute orders to custom garments while maintaining the high product quality expectations of the workwear and protective clothing industry.

Download the position paper to discover how Fashion On Demand by Lectra can help you to keep up with production demands and quality expectations in the protective clothing market.