Case Study: Quality Furniture Company speeds time-to-market and improves costing accuracy with Lectra's DesignConcept 3D

Quality Furniture Strengthens Lead Time And Costing Accuracy With Lectra's Upholstery Solutions

Quality Furniture (QFC), the UK’s leading manufacturer of entry‑level sofas serving major retailers, built its business on seven‑to‑ten‑day lead times but needed to get more products to market faster and cheaper. Manual pattern making, paper drafting, imprecise fabric estimates and lengthy prototyping were slowing development, undermining early cost forecasting and limiting scalability.

Working with long‑time partner Lectra, QFC implemented DesignConcept 3D and related services integrated with their ERP, adding surface/solid modeling, automatic nesting and digital prototyping. Development time fell from about a week to a couple of days, costing and material estimates became far more accurate, material waste dropped, the seven‑to‑ten‑day lead time was preserved, and the company gained capacity to grow and demonstrate tech leadership to customers without extra staff.

Quality Furniture Company

Vernon Goldberg

Managing Director