Ansell Lanka, the renowned leading Sri Lankan glove manufacturer recently achieved excellence in cutting room operations achieving optimal efficiency, productivity and fabric saving  with ”Lectra, the world leading CAD and cutting room automation solutions provider. Apparel Technologies, the sole representative of Lectra in Sri Lanka was initially requested to evaluate Ansell’s cutting room operations with the aim of improving marker efficiency with Lectra Auto Maker software – Diamino. With their 20 years of market knowledge and comprehensive understanding of industry operations the AppTech Engineers’ study revealed that Lectra could contribute to the operation by not only improving marker efficiency but also with a significant fabric saving through improved cutter performance and efficiency.

As the study suggested, Ansell Lanka was advised to replace their currently used 5 Gerber cutters with 2 Lectra cutters where Ansell went ahead purchasing their first Lectra Auto Cutter as the initial phase of the project, replacing 3 Gerbers Ansell Lanka used before. This resulted in significant cutter efficiency and high volume of fabric saving within the first few months on operations in the company. With this promising outcome of Lectra’s competitive technology, Ansell went ahead purchasing the second Lectra cutter too within a matter of months which will replace the remaining 2 Gerbers. “We are extremely happy with the decision to go ahead with LECTRA which resulted us in reaching efficiency levels way above our initial expectations. The solution which we thought would help us on fabric savings also resulted in giving us astonishing cutter performance and efficiency numbers” said Mr. Thanuja Samaranayake, Ansell’s Director – Plant. The efficiency of Lectra was further proved by Ansell Lanka’s operation, where the second Lectra cutter will be performing with less than half of its capacity leaving a lot of room for Ansell’s ever increasing order flow. Thus proving Lectra is the best “go-to” solution out there in the market.  With promising performance and higher efficiency Lectra is leading the integrated cutting room automation while making their competition obsolete.