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FKgroup Analysis, planning and automation for the cutting room. Analisi, progettazione e automazione della sala taglio FKgroup: Italian Winning Technology Worldwide!

FKgroup è leader in soluzioni tecnologiche combinate come software, sistemi CAD/CAM e relativi servizi, in particolare per le industrie che usano tessuti, pelle, materiali tecnici e compositi per le loro produzioni nel campo della moda e abbigliamento, automotive, arredamento e industrie specializzate. FKgroup, con oltre 50 anni di esperienza, è il miglior partner tecnologico, aiutando il cliente

a risolvere qualsiasi problema di produzione; offre soluzioni personalizzate adatte all'industria per automatizzare e ottimizzare l'intero ciclo produttivo dalla progettazione alla produzione, per migliorare l'efficienza, l’affidabilità e la produttività. FKgroup: la vincente tecnologia italiana in tutto il mondo! FKgroup is leader in combined technology solutions as software, CAD/CAM equipment and related services, particularly configured for industries using fabrics, leather, technical and composite materials for their productions in fashion & apparel, automotive, furniture and specialized industries as well. Fkgroup, with over 50 years of experience, is the best technological partner, helping the customer to solve any production problem; it offers customized solution suitable for industry to automate and optimize the whole production cycle from design to manufacturing, to improve efficiency, reliability and productivity.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁When a machine stops, the invoice everyone looks at is the repair. The ...
27/08/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁

When a machine stops, the invoice everyone looks at is the repair. The expensive part came earlier, in the hours when the machine was already working out of specification and making scrap nobody traced back to it. In a , waiting for a breakdown is the most expensive maintenance policy there is.

machines follow a mixed model: programmed, with a predictive layer on top. The base is the counter. Around 90% of the plan rests on the hours the machine has actually worked, not on the calendar. At set intervals, a kit at 500 hours and another at 1,000, wear parts get replaced before they reach end of life. Same principle as servicing a car at 30,000 km.

On top sit a few targeted sensors, on feed force and temperature. When a value drifts from the norm ahead of schedule, it gets flagged and handled then.

Fewer unplanned stops, work planned on real machine hours, cutting quality that holds, maintenance costs you can budget. Want your intervals set on your own machines' hours? Ask us to review your plan.

The model, explained here: https://fkgroup.com/predictive-maintenance-cutting-systems-downtime/

𝗔 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗻In an   company, most of the time lost between design and cutting is not spent designin...
25/08/2026

𝗔 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗻

In an company, most of the time lost between design and cutting is not spent designing. It is spent redrawing. A pattern that arrives in the wrong format, a size chart rebuilt by hand, a marker remade because the constraints were not in the file. That time never appears in a report, and it is paid every season.

FKAD is the software suite for companies making clothing, underwear and home textiles. The pattern chain runs end to end:

• FKad Model: creating and modifying patterns, size charts, dxf import and export, fabrics imported full-scale.
• FKad Vect: digitising with digitiser and digipen, or with a high-resolution camera that also reads prints and checks.
• FKad Place: manual and automatic markers with constraints, defect lines and grids for checks and stripes.
• FKad Gateway: production orders, marker progress monitoring, bulk export of ISO and HPGL files.

One set of data, from the first pattern to the file the cutter reads in the .

Book a demo on a set of your own patterns and see how much of the redrawing disappears.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲Before 1982 a lay with separate sizes was spread in single steps or in gradual...
20/08/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲

Before 1982 a lay with separate sizes was spread in single steps or in gradual steps: the same number of plies per size, or a decreasing number. The order had to adapt to what the could physically spread. Then made-to-measure production arrived and that stopped working.

UNICONT, the counting unit patented by in 1982, turned it around. For over forty years it has made it possible to spread any type of lay in fully automatic mode, in random steps, with the sequence of plies and colours per size following the customer's order. Skipping a size included.

Today it runs on the 590 E-70 spreader with cradle feed: tension free spreading from Lycra to denim, jersey to technical fabrics, up to 100 m/min with cutting device and mobile catcher, lays up to 18 cm, 1,8 kW average consumption. Infra-red measures lay thickness and aligns the selvedge, while MAKE software programmes the steps and shares spreading data with your ERP.

Mixed orders and short runs are where spreading quietly costs money. Send us a typical order mix from your production and we will show you how it gets spread.

𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘆, 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀Hard materials punish a cutting head. Heat builds up, the edge wears,...
18/08/2026

𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘆, 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀

Hard materials punish a cutting head. Heat builds up, the edge wears, and by the end of a long lay the quality is not what it was at the start. On technical materials that is where the hours in the go.

Iron Heavy Auto Edition is the conveyor cutting system built for that work. What it puts on the floor:

• Compressed lay height up to 6 cm (Iron 6) or 9 cm (Iron 9): fewer lays for the same order.
• Patented high-speed sharpening, Vortec refrigerated air cooling and multi-type blade lubrication, wax, silicone oil or soapy water: the edge stays in condition through the shift.
• Mectronic Blade Sense, automatic correction of blade deflection: the cut holds its line on hard laminates.
• Average consumption from 5,9 kW with MEP A+ GOLD certification (TUV SUD): running costs you can forecast.

The Quick Release Valve, together with the continuous cutting software, takes most of the dead time out of window advancement.

Tell us your material and the lay height you work with, and we will size the configuration around them.

𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟯,𝟲𝟳 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀Plenty of apparel producers postpone automatic cutting for the same two reason...
13/08/2026

𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟯,𝟲𝟳 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀

Plenty of apparel producers postpone automatic cutting for the same two reasons: floor space they do not have, and running costs they cannot predict. built Freccia for that kind of .

Freccia is a conveyor cutting system for compressed lays up to 2,5 cm, available in three versions. The short one, with a single 11 kW turbine, measures 3,67 m: it goes where a full line would never fit. The standard version runs a double 4 kW turbine that brings average consumption down to 4,9 kW, with a double impeller for more efficient suction and turbines spinning at reduced frequency. That is also why the average noise level sits around 72 dB, which operators feel by the end of a shift.

Just Cut handles cutting parameters. The Quick Release Valve advances the belt fast, which pays off when set-ups are long. ISO 5011 certification on air quality and TUV certification of the MEP system on reduced consumption come as options.

Small and medium runs do not need a bigger machine. They need the right one. Send us your working width and available space: we will tell you which version fits.

𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁A roll of carbon fiber pulled slightly out of shape while it feeds is already a...
11/08/2026

𝗧𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁

A roll of carbon fiber pulled slightly out of shape while it feeds is already a compromised part. The cutter will follow the file perfectly and the piece will still be wrong, because the distortion happened before the blade touched it. In the , material handling decides more than it gets credit for.

The Feeding Cradle feeds tension free, from Lycra to denim, carbon fiber and Kevlar. Four ways of doing it:

• Through the tension detection bar, while the fabric advances towards the cutter.
• Through an electronic signal taken from the cutting conveyor movement.
• Through an encoder that synchronizes cradle and cutting machine.
• Through a mix of the three.

Fabric tension is controlled electronically, acceleration and deceleration adjust digitally, selvedge alignment works by infra-red, and the machine stops on its own at the end of the roll. It takes rolls up to 50 cm diameter as standard, 100 cm as an option, up to 100 kg, feeding at up to 85 m/min on 1 kW.

Send us the diameter, weight and material of your rolls and we will tell you how they should be fed.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀A part comes out of tolerance and the checks start in the same order every ti...
06/08/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀

A part comes out of tolerance and the checks start in the same order every time: material lot, nesting, software settings. On high-resistance the cause often sits elsewhere. The blade deforms while it cuts, and nobody in the is watching it.

It happens slowly. Cutting composites, aramid fabrics or high-resistance laminates puts stress and heat into the blade, shifting its geometry and trajectory. At the start of the shift the parts are perfect. Hour after hour the micro-deviations add up, the cut moves by fractions of a millimeter, and the tolerance is gone without a warning.

Nothing breaks and nothing sounds wrong, so the blade stays out of suspicion. On abrasive, high-resistance materials deflection often decides whether a part is conforming or goes back for rework.

Our experience on difficult materials sits here: machines built to contain deflection through the whole shift, and lab tests that set the right cutting parameters for each material before production.

Scrap you cannot explain? Send us a sample and we will look at how the blade behaves in your process.

The whole phenomenon, in the article: https://fkgroup.com/blade-deformation-cutting-quality/

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺.Nobody on the beach thinks about it, but summer begins months before the season ar...
04/08/2026

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺.

Nobody on the beach thinks about it, but summer begins months before the season arrives. A is always one season ahead: every swimsuit, beach towel and summer garment has already been nested, spread and cut long before anyone packs a suitcase.

Now it's our turn to take a short break. offices will be closed from August 10 to 21. Until August 14, our team will remain available for urgent requests. From August 17, please leave us a message and we'll get back to you when we reopen on August 24.

Thank you to all our customers, partners and distributors for being part of another season with us.

Enjoy your summer. We'll see you again on August 24.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂In   the work is rarely the same fabric or the same run twice. One day it's a tal...
30/07/2026

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂

In the work is rarely the same fabric or the same run twice. One day it's a tall compressed lay, the next a single ply that has to come out clean. The needs a machine that handles both without a fight.

Aurora is the automatic cutting system built for exactly that range. It cuts from a single ply up to an 8 cm compressed lay, with adjustable suction to match the material in front of it. What it brings to apparel work:

• Average consumption around 4.9 kW: lower energy cost on high garment volumes.
• Noise level of 63.9 dB: a quieter floor for the people who stand beside it all day.
• Two turbine options, 4 kW or 5.5 kW: the machine can scale as the company does.
• Just Cut software and FANUC electronics: parameters set quickly and safely from the PC.

Sizing a machine that has to keep pace as you grow? Let's go through the configuration that fits your volumes.

When the plotter stops being the bottleneckA plotter that can't keep up quietly becomes the bottleneck of the whole  . P...
28/07/2026

When the plotter stops being the bottleneck

A plotter that can't keep up quietly becomes the bottleneck of the whole . Patterns wait, the cutting line waits, the shift runs long. The Inkjet Plotter FKX was built so plotting stops being the part everyone waits on.

FKX is the standalone HP inkjet plotter for , in a vertical 2 or 4-head configuration. What it puts on the floor:

• Up to 190 m2/h in the 4-head, 220 cm version, and up to 95 m2/h in the 2-head, 180 cm one: more markers per shift, fewer queues.
• A new free-paper feed with integrated fan and a pinch-roll system that needs no brakes: cleaner, steadier feeding.
• An integrated display for management and real-time diagnostics: the operator sees what the machine is doing, on the spot.

Time your next batch of markers end to end. The gap between that number and FKX is the time your cutting line spends waiting.

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