• Muleta Ashenafi Edae
• Begna Asirat Negash
• Professor Guohe Li

Textile and apparel manufacturing industry of Ethiopia is second highest employment generator sector and largest contributor to Ethiopia’s GDP. Unfortunately, it lacks behind in innovations and adoption of technology to meet the challenges. The basic problem remains as how to bring varied designs to market quickly with less efforts and cost. The adoption of Lectra CAD technology in various TVET Colleges in Ethiopia offering enormous benefits to apparel manufacturers and it makes quick and efficient revisions in apparel design changes including color adjustments on fabric pattern and resizing garments. CAD system enables designers to produce more accurate designs with less chance of mistakes by saving cost and time. Its integration with CAM offers many advantages during manufacturing process and makes the apparel production faster with consistent and accurate results every time. As all information related to design and productions are stored in file format, it makes very easy to produce the same design again without repetition of previous activities. The introduction of CAD technology in the TVET polytechnic colleges resulted to improved efficiency of the design process due to automation of routine design tasks, increased employee productivity and shortened lead time in the product development process. This study highlights on adoption of Lectra CAD technology, the study addresses the rate of Trainers /TVET Teachers facing a problematic consistent manipulation technique of Digital Technology in class delivery, particularly TVET Trainers are a knotty of pursuing Apparel Fashion Software’s. the CAD/CAM integration appears to be inapplicable to non-integrating companies despite the fact that some of these are technically capable of achieving it students/trainees of teaching ways, methods and the level of understanding apparel fashion software in Garment Sector and its impact on the engineering product development in developing country like Ethiopia’s Textile and Apparel Production.

TVET Trainers, Lectra Software, Fashion, Polytechnic College

"RESEARCH ON IMPLEMENTING LECTRA CAD / CAM SOFTWARE ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF APPAREL FASHION DESIGN TRAINING FOR TVET POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES IN ETHIOPIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.e54-e67, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303409.pdf

"RESEARCH ON IMPLEMENTING LECTRA CAD / CAM SOFTWARE ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF APPAREL FASHION DESIGN TRAINING FOR TVET POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES IN ETHIOPIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppe54-e67, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303409.pdf