Lectra SA (In the past Lectra Systems SA), is a French company based in Paris, World leader of the textile solutions (Cutting, design and developments), founded in 1972 by the brothers Bernard and Jean Etcheparre.
History
It is into 1972 that the history starts for Bernard and Jean Etcheparre." After a few years in aeronautics for one and data processing for the other, they create a consultancy together and invent, in 1972, for one of their customer of the clothes industry, a kind of pantograph controlled by computer. " The user followed with a stylet contours of the owner out of paperboard and the machine declined it in all the tailles." This machine is at the origin of the Lectra company which will post a turnover of more than 800 franc million in 1989, with more than 3.500 customers in the world entier."
November 12th, 1973, the company Lectra Systèmes SA is formed and the adventure starts completely.
Trades
The activity of Lectra is in the field of flexible materials, with the production of tools for the actors of this branch, which recovers:- the clothes industry (fabrics, Leather…)
- furnishing
- technical textiles
- the automobile Saddlery
- the avionics
- the airbag
In all these fields, Lectra conceives and sells software and machine tools allowing of the productivity gains.
One finds for example:
- tools of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), decentralized total Management of the products and their life cycle
- tools of PDM (Product Dated Management), decentralized Gestion of information of products
- CAD (Software of computer-aided design): Modaris,…
- software of placement and economy matter and time
- software of room of cut
- machines of cut monopli (only one layer of matter, fabric, leather, fabrics technical, etc)
- machines of cut multiplis (several layers of compressed matter)
- matelasseurs allowing to carry out the superposition of the folds for the cut
- etc
Products
Alys, Contour 100, Contour 50, Contour L1200MCV, M1600 Contour, M800 Contour, Optimum Contour, DiaminoFashion, GalleryWeb, Kaledo™ Style, Lectra Catalog, MGS, Modaris, Modaris 3D the FIT, Optiplan, PGS, PMWeb, PLM, PrimaVision, U4ia, ProSpinFashionST, ProgressBrio, ProgressBrio100, ProgressBrio250, ProgressBrio55, Vector VectorFashion, VectorDenimMX, VectorFashionFP, VectorFashionFX, VectorFashionM88, VectorFashionMH, VectorFashionMH8, VectorFashionMX, VectorFashionMX9, VectorLingerieMX, WebMTM.
Management of the firm
Andre & Daniel Harari
Notes and references of the article
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