Lectra has opened an innovation lab in France. This will aim at capturing emerging trends, anticipating evolutions and enhancing Lectra’s future technological solutions. The breakthrough innovations resulting from this work are aimed at the fashion, automotive and furniture markets. The first innovations resulting from these collaborations will serve the fashion industry. The teams in the innovation lab will work in collaboration with organizations in their ecosystem: start-ups, research centers, customers and Lectra employees. Everyone is invited to create a visual model during a design sprint or participate in an idea generation workshop. A strong principle is to rethink the entire value chain of this industry—brands, manufacturers, distributors—as it relates at each stage to the final consumer. For brands, key aspects of creation or product development will be reinvented through solutions based on innovative technologies. And for manufacturers, an augmented reality tool has been developed to support cutter maintenance.

Lectra’s offer empowers brands and manufacturers from design to production, providing them with the market respect and peace of mind they deserve. Founded in 1973, today Lectra has 32 subsidiaries across the globe, serving customers in over 100 countries. The company believes innovation, particularly disruptive innovation, implies a real cultural transformation within the company and that one cannot simply will it into existence.