November 2011 - Newsletter

Dear OptiTex Community,

How quickly the year has progressed! Here we are, enjoying the fall and with that, enjoying the new advancements we have made here at OptiTex.

I would like to let you know that we have added new content for our OptiTex webinar series. Client Deborah Zahn-Hamilton in Colorado says exactly what we hope to achieve:   “These webinars have been extremely valuable in the growth of my design business! Blessings!". Simply put, we are here to help our clients run their businesses more smoothly. Click here to register for our next webinar, Pattern-Making in OptiTex: Spotlight on Efficient Pattern Design Tools on Thursday, November 17th, 2PM ET (GMT-5:00). Please keep reading for more updates at OptiTex:

• Up and coming adventure wear brand Icebreaker, renowned for their precision fits, discusses how OptiTex software helps maximize efficiency when as many as 12 or 13 separate pattern pieces are being used for one piece. To read more, click here.
• California Apparel News recently published an interview with OptiTex President Yoram Burg. Discussing why OptiTex maintains the lead in the textile market. To read the interview, please click here.
• We also continue to have a strong presence in the educational field: California Polytechnic University has announced that the OptiTex 2D and 3D CAD/CAM Fashion Design Software system will be incorporated into the AMM program’s high tech apparel courses. Details on this incorporation can be found here. Click here to read about OptiTex’s presence at Iowa State University.

OptiTex Globally:

By sharing and attending at conferences all over the world, we have been able to make successful partnerships as well as learn a great deal from our peers. OptiTex CEO Ran Machtinger, most recently spoke about OptiTex’s leading role as the CAD leader in the cut fabrics industry at the Virtual underwear sample design and digital technology seminar in Hong Kong on October 10,2011. Also, OptiTex was present at the OGTC conference in India. You can read more about our experience at the conference in India here.

Keep an eye out for OptiTex’s presence in the following event of 2011. Please come by and say hello, we’d love to meet you:

2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation for more information please click here

Bridging Mass Customization & Open Innovation
November 16-19, 2011
San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront
OptiTex's USA will talk about customization in apparel design at Session 5-2: A Special Focus on Fashion and Sports on November 19, 2011 from 10.45-12.15

As always, we appreciate your business and we look forward to sharing more updates at OptiTex in the future.

Thank you for being a part of OptiTex.

Ran Machtinger, President and CEO of OptiTex