On Jan. 24 at the London College of Fashion, Gerber Technology will host a seminar entitled Realising the Business Benefits of PLM. The event will profile several leading global retail and fashion companies demonstrating how they have implemented and are using the YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management system to eliminate major pain points and achieve an advantage over competitors.

Virtek Vision International, Inc. of Waterloo, Canada, a business of Gerber Technology, is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. Today, the company serves the world’s 10 largest public aerospace companies, providing laser templating solutions to automate the assembly of carbon fiber composite parts. It also offers inspection systems that accelerate first article and in-process quality checks, primarily for sheet metal fabricators.

Gerber Technology received the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Global Fashion Product Lifecycle Management Product Leadership Award for its innovative YuniquePLM™ solution. Frost & Sullivan analysts evaluated several contenders based on product features and functionality, product innovation, product acceptance in the marketplace and customer value enhancements. In addition to a comprehensive market analysis, research included both quantitative and qualitative discussions with end users.

Gerber Technology has appointed Donny Askin president of its Software Solutions business. In this role, he will manage the strategic direction of the company’s widely-adopted flagship product, the AccuMark® pattern design, grading and marker making system and its fast-growing YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management solution. Askin is also appointed senior vice president of Gerber Scientific, Inc., Gerber Technology’s parent company.    

Koi Design LLC, a Calif.-based maker of designer scrubs for medical professionals, has selected Gerber Technology’s AccuMark® pattern design system and YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management software to help manage the rapid growth of its business. Together, these software solutions will help koi streamline its workflow and ensure product quality across its popular women’s and men’s designer scrub line.

Gerber Technology released AccuMark® 8.5, its latest version of the leading pattern design, grading and marker making software to improve productivity, simplify workflows and generate more accurate material costs. The latest release offers a fresh, new interface and simplifies many day-to-day tasks including ordering and planning markers. It also offers improved integration with Gerber’s YuniquePLM™ product lifecycle management software.

Ideation, Gerber Technology’s 13^th annual software users conference, kicks off today at the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel. Over 200 fashion leaders, Gerber software users and industry decision makers are participating in more than 40 hands-on demonstrations, case studies and ask-the-experts panels during the two-day event.

Over the past several weeks, nearly 5,000 fashion design students from 30 universities across Mexico have put their fashion design, pattern design and marker making skills to the test in a multi-phased competition organized by Gerber Technology and sponsored by many national and international companies.