Vector Auto

Vector
4.0-ready multi-ply fabric-cutting solution

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What is Vector?

The Vector cutting room for automotive is an integrated digital fabric-cutting solution that enables vehicle seating and interior suppliers to achieve the lowest cost per cut part on the market today. In addition to delivering the highest level of precision for perfectly cut parts, Vector supports lean manufacturing by streamlining fabric loading, cutting, offloading and maintenance.

With Lectra’s advanced fabric-cutting solutions, you can cut more fabric faster, at a lower cost. The Vector range for automotive enables you to manage fluctuating production batches with fast, flexible changeovers. Enhance your performance by optimizing material usage while improving cut part quality.

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Customer voice

Vector IP has not only improved our quality standards, but also helped us optimize material consumption and hence, made our process more profitable
Mario Sánchez
Cutting Manager, Coindu
From our point of view, Lectra is the only company that can provide the cutting accuracy, and also the cutting quality to fulfill our customer requirements
Jan Albert
Industrial Engineering Manager, BOS Automotive
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Vector’s predictive maintenance ensures high machine availability. Working seamlessly with Lectra, we anticipate a sharper competitive edge in the automotive supply chain, and a profitable future.
Guo XiaoBing
General Manager, Guangzan
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Benefits of Vector

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Maximize material savings

  • Zero-buffer and near-zero-buffer cutting
    Cut multiple layers of a wide range of automotive upholstery materials with no buffer between cut parts thanks to major advances in hardware components, software and a specially designed new blade
  • Optimized nesting
    Get the most parts out of upholstery materials with powerful marker-making software Diamino, which also enables digital transfer to the cutting room
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Achieve the highest level of quality

  • Precision cutting
    Produce perfectly cut parts for vehicle seating and interior components using high-performance blades.
  • Low scrap rate
    VectorAutomotive’s high degree of accuracy ensures the highest possible level of cutting quality while also reducing buffer between cut parts
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Prevent failures and downtime

  • High machine availability
    Achieve up to 98% availability thanks to built-in sensors for reporting, analysis and predictive maintenance.
  • Anti-error systems
    Integrated anti-error systems detect blade breakage and verify bar code references and drill sizes.
  • Predictive maintenance
    Vector’s embedded sensors communicate in real time with Lectra’s international call centers and resolve issues before breakdown can occur
Maximize margins

Drive manufacturing productivity

  • Best-in-class performance
    Make productivity soar with accurate, automated cutting at high capacity and high machine availability.
  • Production agility
    Fulfill small series and/or mass-production orders of quality cut parts with efficient, high-speed cutting of multiple layers of fabric
  • Business mobility
    Vector units are designed for easy transfer from one manufacturing site to another
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A heavy-duty spreading system GERBERspreader 250s

  • Cutting efficiency increased by spreading material at up to 100 meters per minute
  • Accurate selvage alignment and optimize material utilization with adjustable infrared photocells
  • Available in widths of 160 cm (63 in), 180 cm (71 in), 200 cm (79 in) and 220 cm (87 in)

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Best cutting machine

Vector: meet rising demand for innovation and make zero-buffer multi-ply cutting a reality.

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Make zero-buffer multi-ply cutting a reality

Maximize automotive upholstery savings with Lectra’s VectorAutomotive iP series.

BOS Automotive

BOS Automotive

“From our point of view, Lectra is the only company that can provide the cutting accuracy, and also the cutting quality to fulfill our customer requirements.”

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