Faced with the technological challenges posed by the transformation of a market constantly requiring more agility and cost control, the transition to Industry 4.0 is a key factor in the performance, profitability, and sustainability of production processes. With Valia Fashion, brands, manufacturers, and subcontractors in the fashion industry can adapt more easily and quickly, whatever their type of production (small, medium and large series, or on-demand production).

Valia Fashion connects, automates, and streamlines each stage of apparel production, from order processing to fabric cutting, while optimising the use of materials. It revolutionises the fashion ecosystem by breaking down the barriers between the various industrialisation and production processes to better meet the requirements of brands, manufacturers, and subcontractors.

The advantages of Valia Fashion at a glance:

• Improved collaboration between all stakeholders in the value chain

Thanks to the power of the cloud, artificial intelligence, and an industry-specific data model, Valia Fashion makes it possible to digitalise the entire fashion production flow, from order preparation to cutting.

The digital platform allows all activities and players – both brands and subcontractors – to free themselves from geographical constraints and jointly optimise their operations. By connecting all processes, work organisation becomes easier, manual work is reduced and resource allocation is optimised to ensure maximum efficiency.

• Each member of the ecosystem benefits from better visibility on current and future operations, as well as better estimation and traceability of the material used.

Valia Fashion automatically analyses and optimises the performance of the cutting room and associated resources thanks to a complete, centralised, secure and shared overview of the process.

It measures the environmental impact of apparel production (precise estimation of the quantity of material used) based on real production constraints.

Thanks to the use of Industry 4.0 technologies and specifically artificial intelligence, Valia Fashion is able to process and interpret an unprecedented amount of data, thus optimising production and making it easier to take informed decisions in real time. A new level of industrial performance and competitiveness has been reached.

“Valia Fashion represents a major technological breakthrough as, thanks to artificial intelligence, it truly brings fashion players into a new era, that of Industry 4.0. It will help them make a leap forward that goes beyond any advance made in recent decades. Valia Fashion has no equivalent on the market. It offers the whole fashion industry a totally new way to meet the challenges it faces during production,” explains Maximilien Abadie, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Lectra.

Find out more about Valia Fashion in our interview with Nicolas Favreau, Product Marketing Director at Lectra, which will be published on November 26, 2024 in textile network issue 4/2024. Click here for your subscription.

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