Arena Teams With Lectra for PLM
The Arena Group swimwear label is among the latest to employ emerging PLM technology as a way to streamline product development. The Italian company will use Lectra’s Fashion PLM software, which manages all aspects of pre-production.
More specifically, the company will use the system to manage materials and define new cuts, materials and components. The company’s design and development department will use PLM to create one source of data and a single work environment, combining its waterwear and activewear departments as well as sourcing and cost-control departments. The aim is to eliminate errors by allowing the whole team to work with a single, common and shared (via the Internet) set of data.
The Fashion PLM system will also enable the company to share information with Asian suppliers and other trading partners in the supply chain so that Arena can monitor fabric consumption and costs.
—Robert McAllister
