Lectra has released the first of a series of cloud-based applications. One of these, Quick Estimate, revs up product development efficiency and is instrumental to managing costs. Another, Quick Nest, provides easy access to automatic marker making and capitalizes on cloud technology to handle heavy volumes of calculations in parallel, maximizing productivity and marker efficiency.

These apps empower decision-makers to respond in an instant. These well-packaged, light cloud applications will redefine the way fashion customers store and process data. These apps will also ensure enterprise-wide transparency as management teams gain full visibility of consumption needs for all products in development and production, thanks to viewable access of consolidated data for approval and reporting purposes.

Quick Estimate allows product development teams to calculate fabric requirements instantly. Pattern developers now have the flexibility to make pattern adjustments more quickly to optimize costs, while protecting the brand’s quality and assuring speed-to-market.

Quick Nest can be accessed through Diamino, Lectra’s marker-making solution. During the production development stages, Quick Nest users will be able to process more detailed markers faster. Quick Nest can also be used by production teams to treat lists of markers automatically in record time via the cloud. Lectra is a technological partner for companies using fabrics and leather.