Vector
4.0-ready multi-ply fabric-cutting solution

VectorAuto, the integrated digital fabric-cutting solution for automotive

The Vector cutting room for automotive is an integrated digital fabric-cutting solution that enables vehicle seating and interior suppliers to achieve the lowest cost and highest quality per cut part on the market today. With Lectra’s advanced fabric-cutting solutions, you can cut more fabric faster, at a lower cost in an environmentally sustainable manner.

This eco-friendly range enables you to manage fluctuating production batches with fast, flexible changeovers while reducing fabric waste. In addition to delivering the highest quality, level of precision for perfectly cut parts, Vector supports lean manufacturing by streamlining fabric loading, cutting, offloading and maintenance.

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Customer voice

Vector IP has not only improved our quality standards, but also helped us optimize material consumption and hence, made our process more profitable

Mario Sánchez

Cutting Manager, Coindu

From our point of view, Lectra is the only company that can provide the cutting accuracy, and also the cutting quality to fulfill our customer requirements

Jan Albert

Industrial Engineering Manager, BOS Automotive

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Vector’s predictive maintenance ensures high machine availability. Working seamlessly with Lectra, we anticipate a sharper competitive edge in the automotive supply chain, and a profitable future.

Guo XiaoBing

General Manager, Guangzan

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Benefits of Vector

A safe and productive workplace environment
Improve operator safety and efficiency with the ergonomic, streamlined design of VectorAutomotive.
Reduced carbon emissions
Reduce equipment waste with long-life consumables.
Minimize carbon emissions at the production and transportation stages with a lighter, more compact configuration.

MAXIMIZE MATERIAL SAVINGS

Near-zero-buffer cutting
Cut multiple layers of a wide range of automotive upholstery materials with no buffer between cut parts thanks to major advances in hardware components, software and a specially designed new blade.
Optimized nesting
Get the most parts out of upholstery materials with powerful marker-making software Diamino, which also enables digital transfer to the cutting room.

Picto-Achieve quality and consistency at scale

ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF QUALITY

Precision cutting
Produce perfectly cut parts for vehicle seating and interior components using high-performance blades.
Low scrap rate
VectorAutomotive’s high degree of accuracy ensures the highest possible level of cutting quality while also reducing buffer between cut parts.

PREVENT FAILURES AND DOWNTIME

High machine availability
Achieve up to 98% availability thanks to built-in sensors for reporting, analysis and predictive maintenance.
Anti-error systems
Detect blade breakage, and verify bar code references and drill sizes quickly with integrated anti-error systems.
Predictive maintenance
Detect issues, communicate in real time with Lectra’s international call centers and resolve them before breakdown can occur.
Increased machine uptime
Increase machine uptime through longer intervals between maintenance cycles (every 1,000 hours instead 500).

DRIVE MANUFACTURING PRODUCTIVITY

Best-in-class performance
Make productivity soar with accurate, automated cutting at high capacity and high machine availability.
Production agility
Fulfill small series and/or mass-production orders of quality cut parts with efficient, high-speed cutting of multiple layers of fabric.
Business mobility
Vector units are designed for easy transfer from one manufacturing site to another.

A HEAVY-DUTY SPREADING SYSTEM GERBERSPREADER 250S

Cutting efficiency increased by spreading material at up to 100 meters per minute.
Accurate selvage alignment and optimize material utilization with adjustable infrared photocells.
Available in widths of 160 cm (63 in), 180 cm (71 in), 200 cm (79 in) and 220 cm (87 in).

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Vector: meet rising demand for innovation and make zero-buffer multi-ply cutting a reality.

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Make zero-buffer multi-ply cutting a reality

Maximize automotive upholstery savings with Lectra’s VectorAutomotive iP series.

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BOS Automotive

“From our point of view, Lectra is the only company that can provide the cutting accuracy, and also the cutting quality to fulfill our customer requirements.”

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