Lectra, a leading player in integrated technology solutions catering to industries using soft materials like fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials recently organized ‘Lectra Fashion Seminar’ in Bordeaux-Cestas (France). Fashion companies from around the world got an opportunity to learn how Lectra’s innovative approach can help reduce costs while maximizing quality, with a new focus on lean development and manufacturing.
The event hosted 70 delegates representing 40 fashion and apparel companies from Europe, North America, Africa and Asia at Lectra’s International Advanced Technology & Conference Center, in Bordeaux, France. This seminar explored how businesses can use best practice expertise and technology to improve the fashion and apparel development cycle and optimize workflows.
Lectra showcased a host of solutions such as design, product lifecycle management (PLM), pre-production and production, which are applied according to a customer’s specific process among others. Live demonstrations of Lectra’s end-to-end approach were presented to the audience.
Lectra experts shared knowledge on the changing landscape of fashion market and increasing urgency to align front-end process with pre-production and production to increase design and style options, understand costs and generate substantial material savings was appreciated by the attendees. In addition to areas of bottom-line improvement, demonstrations also provided a look at how design, 3D and collection management technologies can be leveraged to create top line growth opportunities.
