Car mat manufacturer gets a boost from Lectra technology
03/03/2016
“Before working with Lectra, we used die cutters,” explains Lode Garmyn, business manager at ECA. “That was not flexible because, for every model, you needed to have the right cutting knives.”
Die cutter blades take weeks to produce and must be changed for each new car programme.
“A worker cannot nest the knives as efficiently as a computer. Once we switched from die cutters to the first Lectra solution, we saw an improvement of 10%.
“When we were using the dies, we were at 60% of efficiency of hides. Now we’ve increased that to 70% to 80%. On the manpower side, Versalis allows for a higher output with the same personnel. ECA is now moving from labour-intensive to technology-intensive processes.”
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