Johnson Controls has extended its global partnership agreement with Lectra for another three years. To preserve and strengthen its position as a market leader, Johnson Controls will acquire all its high ply fabric cutting equipment and related services exclusively from Lectra. Johnson Controls is the world’s largest complete automotive seating supplier. The company supplies over 50 million cars every year from 220 production plants worldwide. 

The continuing collaboration will focus on optimizing the agility of Johnson Controls’ production processes. During the first 10 years of the agreement, Lectra supported Johnson in transforming its automotive trim cutting rooms worldwide. Johnson abandoned traditional die presses in favor of more flexible automated cutting. The adoption of the Vector solution—ideal for high-volume cutting of a wide variety of automotive seat materials—and the resulting increase in production flexibility, throughput and material efficiency provided the seating supplier with a significant advantage in the highly competitive automotive industry. The company will use Lectra’s expertise and technology to reduce the cost per cut piece and deliver on time.

Lectra is the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials. It develops the most advanced specialized software and cutting systems.

www.johnsoncontrols.in/