Tukatech Increases Productivity for Apparel Maker
Tukatech Inc., the Los Angeles– based vendor of software solutions for the apparel industry, said its technology has recently helped a garment manufacturer significantly increase its productivity.
According to the company, Star Garments—a Sri Lanka– based maker of womenswear for brands such as J. Crew, Guess, Ann Taylor, Abercrombie & Fitch, Tommy Hilfiger and LizClaiborne —saw a 275 percent increase in productivity after integrating 52 Tukatech CAD Software Stations into its product-development operations.
The company, which had been employing 42 manual patternmakers and using 62 CAD workstations from other makers, was able to streamline its operations with the addition of the Tukatech stations.
“The Tukatech engineers were able to re-engineer our process and work flow, consolidate our sample rooms, and train our personnel to engineer our patterns,” said A. Sukumaran, managing director of Star Group, in a statement. “All of these changes resulted in significant improvements, including a fabric savings of 2 percent, better cutting quality, increased productivity of the installed cutters and a better end product overall.”
Tukatech provides patternmaking, grading and markermaking software, as well as manufacturing equipment, webbased product-development services and PDM/PLM systems to the industry. —Erin Barajas
